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...

The Koch Brothers, Fascism and the 2014 Elections

There are always conspiracy theorists in abundance. And when it comes to elections, from Kennedy in 1960 to Bush in 2000, some people will...

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...

The Reagan Legacy: Economic and Social Disaster

The United States was once the envy of the entire world. Even some very wealthy and prominent individuals in England and France settled here...

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...

The Land of Opportunity–for the Koch Brothers.

In the south Bronx, the unemployment rate is 19%. In Detroit and other metro areas it can be even higher than that. The opportunity...

Still Crazy After All These Years

It has been 33 years since the ascendency of Conservative philosophy in the Republican Party and since the takeover of part of American government...

The Failure of Conservative Economics Part V – The Bush-Cheney Depression

The United States has been in decline since 1981.That was when Ronald Reagan’s charismatic personality took over the country. Reagan was the all-time,...

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...

Republican Crimes Against the People

The country is divided. North, South, East, West...we argue about everything. And why? Because we now have a system that allows organizations, newscasters, politicians,...

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...

Carolina on My Mind

In 2010, over 60 seats changed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The South didn’t change that much because the South was already pretty...

The Salesman of Hate

In 2003, a scumbag by the name of Mark Levin was encouraged by two other scumbags, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, both of whom...

The Son-in-law Senator from Wisconsin

The nice thing about “stupid” is that you don’t have to make anything up or manipulate anything or try to exaggerate anything…stupid is as...

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...