Lincoln, Lieberman, Landrieu, and the Insurance Man from Nebraska
Isn’t it wonderful to live in a country run by liars, thieves and toadies? We live in what was once the richest country in...
The Great Right-Wing Propaganda War
There is a war going on in this country. It is a war against the American People and a war against the truth. It...
The Cost of War in Iraq and Afghanistan
Since 2001, the United States alone has spent over $687 billion on the Iraq war. We have spent over $228 billion on the war...
Lou Dobbs and the Mystery of the Missing Birth Certificate
Lou Dobbs has been on the air for 30 years. In chronological years, he is not an old man these days. But in keeping...
Reality, Fantasy and Leadership
Since the latter part of the last decade of the 20th Century, the once-great United States of America has fallen into a trap. That...
The Health Care Reform Battle and the Neocon Alternatives
On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the members in the House of Representatives of the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party spent an entire day doing their best...
The Case for Ending the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan–Now.
After almost one trillion dollars spent and over 4,000 lives lost, it is time to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bring...
What’s in a Name? Republicans Are Now the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party
Shakespeare and the current Republican Party do not exactly fit within the same imagery. We do not see Sarah Palin quoting Shakespeare, something that...
Tax the Rich.
It is about time that we begin to attack the problem of our inadequate national revenues. We have not had sufficient revenues to balance...
Turncoat Lieberman, Bought By Health Insurance Companies
The clear message is that Senator Joseph Lieberman, like Duke Cunningham and others, including Senator John McCain of Arizona, has now taken his former...
Jobs, Wind, Solar, Natural Gas, Kerry, Boxer, Carbon and the Obstructionists
We need jobs and we need them soon. We have about 15.1 million people unemployed, with jobs falling now at the (slowing) rate of...
Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way!
How long must we put up with this indecisive attitude on the part of Congress? Whom do they work for anyway--health care lobbyists? It...
The Big Lie
The Big Lie. We know what that is...the concept, that is. It is not a new concept. It is the idea that if you...
Reality, Dreams and Politics
Every day we live our lives, most of us, in stark reality. Some of us may say: What? Stark reality? Few of us think...
Mobs, Revolutions, Moral Majorities and Totalitarian Governments
There is a lot to be said for civic activism. The Civil Rights movement, addressing a leftover 19th Century attitude towards African-Americans called segregation,...