Political War in America–North, South, Rich, Poor

This is the world we live in. We don't need political commentators to tell us what is happening. We see it every day in...

Hedge Fund Managers Are Coming for Your State Pension Funds.

One of the most serious and largest scams now being perpetrated by the Republican Party on the American public is the “unfunded liability” state...

Beware the Ides of March and Neocon Budget Scare Tactics

We are going through one of those periods right now where the Neocon anti-middle class propaganda machine is cranking out trash day and night....

Budget Cuts–Coming After Your Social Security

It is time to pay attention to the Peterson Commission. And you had better pay attention and tell your friends and have them tell...

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...

Inequality and Poverty

Government is failing Americans. A nation accustomed to creating new industries, technologies and good jobs within those industries can no longer expect vision from...

The foundations of American Neo-Fascism

Hitler, above all, was a racist. He thought that interbreeding between different races was wrong, but not merely wrong—disastrously wrong. He thought that Darwin’s...

Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Ryan!

Oh boy! Ohboyoboyoboyoboy! Just when you think you have heard every lie, every phony claim, every stinking innuendo, every slavish following of the superstitiously...

Monetary Madness and Economic Cowardice

Since 2008 and the onset of the Great Bush Depression, we have seen some of the most remarkable and inane economic theories ever proposed...

New Energy Jobs Coming From Either Democrats or Republicans

Yesterday the Democratic Senate announced its new "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act."  Soon after a group of GOP Senators discussed their similar legislation, with...

Homeless in Seattle…and Lakewood…and Reno…and more…

Tent cities are growing all over the country. Over 47 million people now live below the poverty line. There are growing numbers of tent...

How  “Medicare for All” Can Easily Be Funded by the Super-Rich. 

Medicare for All is a plan to bring health care to everyone in the United States, primarily to citizens but also, in some form, accessible to non-citizens, such as exchange workers and students and perhaps in some form of payment to non citizens resident aliens, pending naturalization.

Americans Want Jobs, Not Cuts in Medicare or Medicaid

Most people will tell you that they are angry with the President. They were angry with the President in 2010 when they voted for...

A Plan for Jobs and Ending the Recession

There has been talk recently--finally--about creating jobs. The talk has been about using some of the TARP money to create jobs in various sectors....

Politics: Save Yourself First – Part II

They will always try to get you with words and slogans. Words and slogans are fun but they aren’t facts. The rich are funding...