Trump is Packing the Courts Against the Average Citizen.
What is the last, best hope of mankind? Is it not a great democracy, governed by the will of the majority? Isn’t it necessary...
Barbarians Inside the Gates
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Joseph O’ShaughnessyYesterday, Monday, July 10th, the President announced his nominee for the vacant Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice Anthony Kennedy. He nominated an...
Impeachment!
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Joseph D. O’Shaughnessy
I am going to go through the just released Nunes memo, but I will give you my conclusion about its...
The Sanders Revolution
The world is changing again. Instead of a 40-something running for President, we have two 60 or 70-somethings. Maybe it takes that long to...
A Nightmare in November
Here is the real danger for 2016. We are at a tipping point. It is very likely that few Americans understand the calamitous potential...
Republicans Attacking Americans’ Affordable Health Care
The Patient’s Responsibility and Affordable Health Care Act—commonly known as Obamacare—had a remarkable milestone recently. After something like the 50th or 60th Republican House...
The Bush-Cheney Pro-Poverty Programs
In 8 years in office, Bill Clinton, in addition to creating 22 million jobs, left office having lifted 5 million people out of poverty....
Impeach Justice Thomas.
Quote from a Right Wing blog on the Internet concerning the activities of Supreme Court Justice Thomas’ wife in creating a new Right-Wing group...
Net Neutrality–Free Speech on the Internet
Someone asked recently, “What can I do?” when it comes to issues of political and economic power being used as a wedge or...
The Roberts’ Supreme Court and the End of Democracy
With all the other problems facing this country, one that we should not have to face in 2010 is the validity and honesty of...
A Radical Proposal: Peace and Justice
This is about war and peace. Yes, the most important thing today is more jobs. That is the very first item that should be...
Halliburton, Again.
When the smoke cleared at the site of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a name appeared in the various stories...
Selling Out to Corporations: Gale Norton and Bush’s Department of Interior
The health care reform debate brought out the wild and wooly in our society. Not simply the rather profane nut cases, but the craziness...
Torts, Filibusters, Health Care Reform and Disastrous Supreme Court Decisions
We are now well into this session of Congress. The Senate has already begun a pace of filibusters that will exceed that of...
The Dangerous State of Our Legal System
When Barack Obama became our 44th President, we thought that things would begin to change. And they have. But not much. Yet some people...