Rick Perry: Bum to Hero to Bum…Before the Campaign Starts!

This is how Neoconservatives…aka Neocons…aka the American Kinder, Gentler Fascists…work: they lie, then cover their lies with more lies, then let the truth come...

Propaganda, Elections, Taxes, and Losing America

In a bold statement, Senator Mitch McConnell must have encountered a “senior moment” because he momentarily lost his talking points. He actually had the...

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...

GOP: Going Fascist on Unions and Middle Class

There is a good argument that those dozen or so Wisconsin legislators should have stayed in Wisconsin and taken the hit. In other words,...

Bruce Rauner: Money and Neo-Fascism

For those who don’t know, Bruce Rauner is the new Republican governor of Illinois. And money? We all know what money is. Rauner is...

Michele Bachmann and Lies About Health Care Reform

The Republicans said that they wanted to repeal the health care reform bill. Then they said that they wanted to de-fund it. In other...

The Post Office and Republican Treachery

Do you have a utility bill or a credit card bill that’s going to cost you extra if you don’t get it there on...

The Grand Illusion, Part II

Part II -- Who is telling all those lies...and why? They met on the mall in Washington, that renowned place for great assemblies. They...

Jobs in the 21st Century

American society is crumbling. Our buildings, roads, bridges, dams—all our municipal facilities are breaking down. And there is very little investment being made in...

The Case For Liberal Economics

We have serious economic problems. As a country, we need to move ahead. China is buying up the world’s resources. Soon Russia will do the...

The Koch Brothers, Trump and the Theft of the American Dream

Please take a look at the Koch Brothers' latest piece of propaganda--quite probably the worst and perhaps most consequential lie ever told in a...

Tea Party Republicans and American Hatred

So now…the debt limit is raised and everyone is happy. We have cuts in government spending, But what else happened? Nothing. That is what...

Understanding Political Reality

Life is not a game show. The realities of electing the moronic, semi-troglodytic President’s son as President…or having the Supreme-Court-justice son of a rumored...

Expansion, Not Austerity

We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with...

What Do “Think Tanks” Think About?

Washington D.C. seems to be "ground zero" for think tanks. A think tank is made up of a group of real and imagined "experts"...