How the Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Bill Will Devastate Average Americans.
The Republicans are up to it again. Once again, they are trying to further devastate the Middle Class. Under the guise of a popular...
The Nightmare of U.S. Private Prisons
With everything else you have to worry about—Fascism in government, domestic terrorists and the lack of intelligent response, a congress trying to overthrow all...
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 Republicans’ First Act: Attack Abortion Rights
The Republicans have returned to power. They now control the House of Representatives and the Senate. They rode in on a wave of gerrymandered...
American Propagandists in a New Age of Propaganda
Propaganda is basically a lie with a purpose. It is a lie, or as some say, “the Big Lie,” the constant repetition of a...
The Next Two Years
The November 2014 elections were pretty clear. In some states Senators or Governors won by as many as 70% of the vote. Of course,...
The Economy, Politics and Jobs
One of the key problems with the country today is the lack of jobs. If we had jobs, we would have more economic activity...
Democrats in 2014
If you talk to leading progressives these days, you'll be sure to hear this message: The Democratic Party should embrace the economic populism of...
It Is Time for a Change.
It is time for a change. It is time for the average American to get in the face of other average Americans, get on...
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...
Values, Voters, Loonies and Liberty
The Tea Party Republicans recently released some video from the Voter Values Summit. One can only wonder at the thinking process, if any, in...
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...
Trayvon Martin and the Imported Americans, Revisited
On the night of February 26th, 2012, a 17-year-old black man in Sanford, Florida was returning to his father’s fiance’s home in a gated...
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 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...