Politics for Dummies: Populist versus Fascist

by Joseph O’ShaughnessyWe spend a lot of time in this country identifying people and things, like fads and trends. It is not difficult to...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...