Rush Limbaugh and the Decline of Hate Radio

How is Rush Limbaugh, the obscenely obscene radio personality, the voice of hatred and racism, doing these days? Is he still earning his $40...

The Current Common Wisdom Is Wrong

We often refer to the "common wisdom" in society, the general knowledge passed on by word of mouth locally, regionally and eventually expressed in...

Republicans Are Corporatists–Not Populists!

One of the numerous Right Wing propaganda posts is called the “Patriot Post” by someone or some people who use the pseudonym “Sartre.” That...

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...

On Oil Spills and Government Spoils

This is about our country.We have been through the Second Age of the Moguls and it was worse than the first, if that is...

Inequality and Poverty

Government is failing Americans. A nation accustomed to creating new industries, technologies and good jobs within those industries can no longer expect vision from...

Government by Lobbyist

The recent Citizens United verdict by the Supreme Court makes one thing clear. For the time being, at least, lobbying is here to stay...

The Catholic Church, the President, the Heritage Foundation and Birth Control

One of the implementations of the new health care reform that has gone into effect is the provision that says that women’s reproductive health,...

The Parable of the Thieves

When reason fails, people fall back on superstition. The American society has long operated under the basic principle that hard work creates abundance and...

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...

It Can Happen Here. It’s Happening Now.

First they came after our land. Then they came after our trees. Then they came after our money. Now they want to take our...

How Neo-Fascism works. Take Illinois, for Example.

In Illinois, there is a Republican Governor. And a Democratic legislature, thank God, That Democratic legislature is strong enough to overturn a gubernatorial veto....

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...

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...

Unions and the Middle Class

It’s time we began to look for ways to organize large numbers of people against the now dominant power of the Plutocracy. Unions are...