Politics

By the time Donald Trump was 3 years old, he was receiving $200,000 a year from his father. By the time he was 8, he was a millionaire. By the time he was 12 and too “rambunctious” his industrious, disciplined, German father dropped him into military school. Trump likes to say that he chose military school, but the testimony of his classmates at the time says that his father made the decision. Trump merely saw that he liked it, and did well, socially and athletically.Because Trump won’t disclose, or

 Part I – Trump RepublicansThere is a new term in American politics. Have you heard it? People might not ask you: “Are you a...

I am voting for Bernie Sanders and I encourage everyone else, Democrat, Republican, Socialist, Fascist, Herbalist, Libertarian, Vegetarian, Green, Blue, Black, Brown, Hispanic or...

 In September of 2017 Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter published a report called “Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America.” It has...

If re-elected, President Donald Trump has budgeted to cut Medicare by $848 billion. He will cut Medicaid by $1.5 Trillion and cut $25 billion...

Medicare for All is a plan to bring health care to everyone in the United States, primarily to citizens but also, in some form, accessible to non-citizens, such as exchange workers and students and perhaps in some form of payment to non citizens resident aliens, pending naturalization.

I don't watch much live television. But I do like to watch ballgames and golf and certain types of British television programming. I'm not...

byJoseph D. O'ShaughnessyIt's an old song title. Made famous, I think, by a singer and bandleader, Phil Harris, from the great radio days of...

byJoseph O’ShaughnessyOne aspect of American life is becoming more evident each and every day. The propaganda that has been spread using the money of...

By Joseph D. O’Shaughnessy(The recent comments by Llhan Omar, the member of the House of Representatives from Minnesota, concerning Israel and American Jewish support...

byJoseph D. O'ShaughnessyIn Washington, D.C., yesterday, a group of well-schooled (apparently in racism and intolerance) Covington Roman Catholic high school punks, wearing their Fascist...

byJoseph O'ShaughnessyThe Republicans in Wisconsin and Michigan have now proved themselves to be legislators who want to be and are trying to be...Fascists. What...

byJoseph O'ShaughnessyAs we race through space in late November 2018, the United States is in great turmoil and some would say in great danger.The...

byJoseph O’ShaughnessyWhen Donald Trump was elected President in November of 2016, it was much more than a mere transition of one Presidential administration to...

byJoseph O’ShaughnessyThe President went to national newspapers today and blatantly lied to the American people.It is the most outrageous thing I have ever seen...