Nazis and Neoconservatives…Are There Valid Comparisons?

For some time now, we have seen comparisons between various groups, various individuals and the Nazis. The comparisons are almost always totally imperfect. First...

Is Tim Pawlenty Dumber than Palin or Bachmann?

Here's an imaginative new platform for a Republican Candidate. Tim Pawlenty's blistering slogan is: "A Better Deal." Huh? That's it? For God's sake, governor,...

Are Republicans Now International Corporatists?

In recent days, it has become clear that the Neoconservatives who continue to control the Republican Party have not lessened their allegiance to the...

Starting Over in the New World

There is an ongoing petulant argument being carried out in what one might call the economic and political press. Should we cut government which...

Overturning the Republican Lie Machine

The facts about austerity are incontrovertible. There is every good reason to generate more income and not cut entitlement programs. Do NOT let the...

There You Go Again, Donald…

The hits to the American people just keep coming. Trump's cabinet is a who's who of the richest, Rightist, wrongist group of characters ever...

A Message from Kansas for the United States

by Joseph O'Shaughnessy Kansas has long been considered one of the most backward states of those that are not in the alliance of old Confederate...

Blue Dogs With a Yellow Stripe

Examples of courageous behavior: Soldiers going to the rescue of a downed comrade in the face of withering fire. A skilled pilot landing a...

Failure of Conservative Economics, Part III The Big Economic...

No discussion of Conservative economics will be complete without a full analysis and review of the theories of Fredrich Hayek. Hayek was an Austrian...

The Grim State of the Nation

As we are about to enter the third month of 2010, the nation is in its worst financial and economic condition since, perhaps, 1939....

Face it, Folks. We Now Live in a Neo-Fascist Society.

by Joseph O'Shaughnessy The attacks on the people will begin to increase now. The hugely wealthy backers of the Republican Party got what they wanted….more...

Democrat or Republican, Here’s How to See Health Care.

Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, if you are now or ever have been or ever will be a patient, here is...

Trump Tax Cuts Versus Your Social Security and Medicare

Perhaps it is time for the big battle. Perhaps it is time to have an all-out war against the Titans. Trump and McConnell, the would...

Grover Norquist: Lobbyist for the Rich

Grover Norquist is without question the kind of nerd that most working-class Democrats and Liberals like to attack. He comes from an affluent Republican...