Franken, Reagan, Health Care Reform And Our Debt to Unions

Every American must support health care reform as if your life depended on it, because it does. From the man in his late 40s...

Politics for Dummies: Populist versus Fascist

by Joseph O’Shaughnessy We spend a lot of time in this country identifying people and things, like fads and trends. It is not difficult to...

Justice

We are examining, some say interrogating, a new Supreme Court Justice. Amy Coney Barrett, the prospective new member of the Supreme Court, has many...

Wisconsin—Populist to Fascist in Ten Years

Jennifer Estrada heard the news about Scott Walker’s election en route to one of her jobs. Jennifer, a lifelong Wisconsin resident, and a full-blown...

Unemployment, Job Creation, and Back-of-the-Envelope Economics

Do you want a job? Do you need a job or know anyone who does? Do you think that there are fewer jobs than...

Why Isn’t Dick Cheney In Jail…and other matters.

On Dick Cheney, silly electioneering and holding up unemployment insurance The recent testimony from Dick Cheney to the FBI clearly shows that he was...

Warning: Health Care Disaster Looming

Here's the problem and I'm going right at it because we don't have much time. Congress is about to change the rules on health care....

There You Go Again, Donald…

The hits to the American people just keep coming. Trump's cabinet is a who's who of the richest, Rightist, wrongist group of characters ever...

Towards a New Populism for the United States

Everything hardens in the cold--butter, plastic, even skin. In a system begun 233 years ago with the urge to be free of oppression and...

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...

Facts About Global Warming

The fact is that the earth is warming. Glaciers are melting, and most importantly, the earth's weather patterns are beginning to change. Northwest United...

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...

Trump: President. Narcissist. Fascist

By the time Donald Trump was 3 years old, he was receiving $200,000 a year from his father. By the time he was 8, he was a millionaire. By the time he was 12 and too “rambunctious” his industrious, disciplined, German father dropped him into military school. Trump likes to say that he chose military school, but the testimony of his classmates at the time says that his father made the decision. Trump merely saw that he liked it, and did well, socially and athletically. Because Trump won’t disclose, or

Senate GOP “Patients’ Choice Act of 2009” Not Even Close!

There is a myth about Neocon Republicans and health care. The myth is that they "care" about your "health." They don't. In Congress, they have...

Obama & Health Care: the New York Times Reports the…Facts?

It may be time for much greater changes than simply transforming health care. We may be looking at a political and social climate that...