Jobs and the Current American Economic Disaster
Since the Fall of 2008, the U.S. economy a dynamic enterprise of about $15 trillion dollars, as measured in employment, has fallen by about...
Union-busting in Wisconsin
There is a strong game plan abroad in the land to bust unions. Most unions these days are for government workers. So the new...
Rich Getting Richer. Poor Getting Poorer.
In the United States today, the rich are getting richer and the poor are becoming poorer. The facts are clear. They are reported by...
OCCUPY AMERICA!
The last big show of Populist sentiment in this country was when the people of Wisconsin stood up against an oppressive Governor and a...
Profile of a Neoconservative: How Neocons Think and Vote.
Peter Roskam was elected in 2006 to fill the seat of Rep. Henry Hyde, who retired and died. Roskam is a typical Neoconservative Republican…e.g.,...
A Populist Plan to Restore the Economy
This will short and to the point. This is a simple plan to handle a simple problem.
Yes, it is not as complicated by a...
Profiles in Obstruction # 1: Senator James DeMint
It is too easy to simply make fun of or ridicule James DeMint. And of course many would say: who are any of us...
Who Created the Recession and Who Can End It
Jobs, jobs, jobs. It is the mantra of the Liberals. It may also be the mantra of anyone who is out of work and...
Don’t Think “Green Energy;” Think Green Jobs.
We have a couple of pieces of legislation in that great frozen melting pot called a Senate that deserve your attention and, frankly, the...
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...
The Koch Brothers, Fascism and the 2014 Elections – Part II
So, here we have two brothers, raised in privilege by Frederick Koch, Sr., a man who was at first accepted, then apparently shunned by...
American Society at a Crossroads. For People or for Corporations?
We are facing a serious problem as a society. The problem is whether we will approach our fellow citizens as equals, with equal opportunity...
Drilling Our Way to a Balanced Budget
The American Petroleum Instititute bankrolled a series of television commercials in which a very emphatic blonde parades through a series of set ups that...
The Neocon Republican Candidates—A Rogues Gallery
What a bunch of losers we saw in the first Republican debate. It was shallow, obfuscating and ignored reality.
We’ll start off by saying...
To Find a Job, Fire a Republican
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Remember the goal: 220-60-1 for 2012. Two-hundred and twenty Democratic House Members, Sixty solid Liberal Democratic Senators and a Democratic President. This is the...