Radical Changes in American Law Enforcement
We read more and more about severe changes to American local law enforcement. It is as if the world after 9/11 had adapted to...
The Legacy of Ronald Reagan
It is time that we took a step back from the precipice that is the current American political atmosphere and try to understand how...
Putin and the Russian Economy
In the Fall of 1952, Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin was born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, to Vladimir Spirodonovich and Maria Ivanovna Putin. His father...
The Imported Americans–Part II, From Reagan to Obama
The movement towards civil rights and a color-blind society ended when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981. After only 15 years, the affirmative actions...
Of the Rich and the Poor in America
Income and wealth inequality in the United States is on the rise again. The gap between the rich and poor was much smaller from...
Bush Revisited.
As I write this, articles by reporters who apparently can find nothing better to write about are pouring out their hearts to assign feeble...
The Failure of Conservative Economics–Pt. IV–Bush, Cheney and Big Government by...
In 1994, in an interview, Milton Friedman said that in the 1990s there is “much less optimism and all the problems have been...
Obama or Romney…Your Decision, Your Future
We are days from the 2012 elections. The Republicans have their candidate and the Democrats theirs. Romney versus Obama. You have a decision to...
Romney’s Lies and the Future of America
The first Presidential campaign debate of the 2012 campaign was generally seen by the political punditry as a victory for the contender.Not...
Republican Crimes Against the People
The country is divided. North, South, East, West...we argue about everything. And why? Because we now have a system that allows organizations, newscasters, politicians,...
It’s the Economy…Or Is It?
Sometimes it seems that economists live in a world different from ours. We have bills to pay, jobs to keep, children to educate. The...
How Conservatism Becomes Fascism
In 1946, in one of the great cosmopolitan cities of Europe, ancient and yet contemporary, with a tradition of culture, music, popular culture and...
What Would Romney Do?
Willard Mitt Romney is virtually assured the candidacy of the Republican Party. He is already campaigning as if he were. And he has grabbed...
The Scott Walker Story
Being fair to Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin is very difficult. It is like trying to be fair in analyzing the administration of Benito...
The Danger of a Nazi America
A lot of Right Wing radio commentators toss around the word “Nazi” these days and it seems that many of them have no idea...