Politics: Save Yourself First – Part II

They will always try to get you with words and slogans. Words and slogans are fun but they aren’t facts. The rich are funding...

Politics: Winning in Class Warfare — Part I

In the early evening of a summer night in New York City, or Dallas or Los Angeles, or Miami, there is a slow, quiet...

A Proven 80-year-old Plan for Recovery

The American People, according to polls, have now floundered their way into a strong majority willing to literally destroy their lives and those of...

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...

The Grand Illusion

Part I – Looming disaster and how we got hereThe Tea Party Movement is neither a movement nor has it anything to do with...

Restoring Honor? How About Restoring Sanity?

It is probably not a good idea to give any publicity to this inane plan of Glenn Beck’s to hold a “Restoring Honor” meeting...

Creating Jobs in the United States

There are several problems with the current jobs situation and those are in addition to the fact that one out of approximately 8 people...

Disciples of Fear

Beware of the Age of Fear.Not the dark, unreasoning fear, the fear of the unknown, the fear of poverty, destitution and calamitous disaster....

The Rich Are Winning

When we look at the past year and a half since President Obama and his staff have come to office, we can only shake...

The “R” Word

In 1917, after generations of serfdom, oppression, starvation and genocide, the people of Czarist Russia took matters into their own hands. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin,...

The Neocons

When the current American Right Wing propaganda machine heats up it is very difficult to sift through the lies and the deliberate distractions to...

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...

Wall Street Journal: Unemployment Benefits Are Bad for America

In a recent article entitled “Stimulating Unemployment” the Wall Street Journal inadvertently showed its true colors. Black. They would like us all to wear...

Net Neutrality–Free Speech on the Internet

Someone asked recently, “What can I do?” when it comes to issues of political and economic power being used as a wedge or...

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...