Don’t play the Trump Distraction Game. Focus on Congress.
We're fighting the wrong wars with Donald Trump in particular and with Republicans in general.It's not about refugees coming to America. Banning immigrants without...
Billionaires, Taxes and Inequality
by Joseph O'ShaughnessyF. Scott Fitzgerald supposedly said to Hemingway: "The Rich are very different from you and me." And Hemingway is said to have...
Health Care Disaster Is Just the End of a Long, Long...
The Republican Senate, House, President Trump (sounds so ridiculous!) and the Billionaires have written you out of health care. And they will do more...cut...
Mitch McConnell Wants to Destroy American Health Care
The Republican leader in the Senate is trying to rush through a secret health care proposal, bring it to the floor of the Senate...
Trump’s Lies About Climate Change
by Joseph O'ShaughnessyThe President announced yesterday that he would disengage the United States from the world effort to keep climate change from completely submerging...
The Obama Presidency, Looking Back
It’s been a quarter of a year now, a little more, since the end of the Obama Presidency. The contrast, and the events that...
Comey, Commies, Fascists and Rigged Elections
There are only two logical reasons why Trump would fire Jim Comey. One is easy and obvious. The other may be hidden and is...
The Trump Republican Tax Cut for the Super-Rich
by Joseph O'ShaughnessyLet’s establish one thing right away. The new tax bill proposed by President Trump and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin is a tax cut...
Warning: Health Care Disaster Looming
Here's the problem and I'm going right at it because we don't have much time.Congress is about to change the rules on health care....
How Republicans Tried to Kill Obamacare and Give Us the Cheap...
We have been mislead by Republicans about Obamacare. If health care is about the American people, then Obamacare is good and workable and economically sound. If health care is about making health insurance companies profitable, and not caring for the American people, then the Republican plan is better...but only for the health insurance industry.
Donald Trump Is No Populist.
by Joseph D. O'ShaughnessyI normally don't sign what we all call posts. I don't even refer to them as "posts." Rather, I call them...
Should We Be Taking Michael Moore Seriously?
Have you seen “Where to Invade Next,” the title of the latest film by gadfly documentarian, Michael Moore? I guess his films are supposed...
How Paul Ryan Plans to Take Away Your Health Care
Paul Ryan and the Republican/Fascist leaders in Congress want to repeal Obamacare and leave you with the same kind of health care you had...
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...
The Trump Hits Keep Coming.
President-Elect Trump, who apparently thinks that he has already taken office, despite challenges in several very close, very suspicious states, continues to pick a...