Guns

In the fall of 2010, a man by the name of Jared Loughner, a 22-year old Tucson, Arizona community college dropout began to obsess...

America’s Twin Maladies (Neither is Covid.)

Historically, and presently, the United States has suffered and suffers today from two problems that can far more easily be solved than the problem...

How Inequality and Oligarchy Divide Americans

We already know what Democracy means. We also understand inequality. But some of us are not quite so clear on a society that could...

Disgraced Among Advanced Nations

President Biden recently traveled abroad to work with other nations to create a world where all of the best efforts of all countries would...

Fascism Is Working. For the Rich.

Have you checked on used car prices lately? Well, if you haven't--don't. Used car prices are not only alarming; they are depressing.But they...

Fear and Democracy

There are many different kinds of fear. Fear of death. Fear of severe illness. Fear of losing a loved one. But vast, undefined fear...

Manchin and Sinema

In the long history of our country, we have had, from time to time, an occasional gadfly cruising around against the tide whose intention...

Making America Great Again

We have a very clear picture of what the Republicans in the Senate believe. Their spokesman, and leader, Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell stood...

Capitalism, Greed, Poverty, Inequity and Charity

I was having a discussion with a good friend the other day about the current economic situtation, and several issues about individual American work...

Guns or Democracy? You decide.

It was not likely that Kayden Swann caused his own shooting. He was shot in the head last April 6, on Lake Shore...

Bidenomics

We are entering a new development in American economics. We’ve learned a great deal in the last 20 years and U.S. economists are at...

Top Lies Trump Told Americans

I’ll Bring Back Jobs.What jobs? Obama had reduced the unemployment rate to 4.3%--from 10.8% and below where it had been at the best...

Are they “Deplorable?” Or True Believers?

In the 1950s and 1960s, a fairly routine, average man, perhaps even on the lower end of the economic scale, wrote several books that...

The Great Fake Debate over the National Debt

The Washington Post has brought to our attention that, once again, the Republicans, who created approximately 80% of all our national debt, have already...

Trump and the 12 Disicples

In the myth that is the Right Wing Autocracy Bible, we follow the Great Prophet, Donald Trump, to the promised land of milk...