The Koch Brothers, Fascism and the 2014 Elections – Part II

So, here we have two brothers, raised in privilege by Frederick Koch, Sr., a man who was at first accepted, then apparently shunned by...

The Economics of Destruction

We are in a very serious time in the history of this country. Although it may not seem so to many, about 80% of...

The Case For Liberal Economics

We have serious economic problems.As a country, we need to move ahead. China is buying up the world’s resources. Soon Russia will do the...

The Economy, Politics and Jobs

One of the key problems with the country today is the lack of jobs. If we had jobs, we would have more economic activity...

Democrats in 2014

If you talk to leading progressives these days, you'll be sure to hear this message: The Democratic Party should embrace the economic populism of...

Still Crazy After All These Years

It has been 33 years since the ascendency of Conservative philosophy in the Republican Party and since the takeover of part of American government...

The Legacy of Ronald Reagan

It is time that we took a step back from the precipice that is the current American political atmosphere and try to understand how...

The Greatest Robbery in the History of the World

In 2008, the top income earners in this country and major corporations and the Republican Party and Wall Street completed the greatest theft of...

Rich Getting Richer. Poor Getting Poorer.

In the United States today, the rich are getting richer and the poor are becoming poorer. The facts are clear. They are reported by...

Another Look at Unions

It is time to revisit the issue of unions.Why are unions important? They are important because unions represent the people. Government used to...

The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VII — Solutions

So what are the solutions to our economic problems?They’d better be good. The Bush Administration left us with an enormous mess.In...

The Failure of Conservative Economics–Pt. IV–Bush, Cheney and Big Government by...

In 1994, in an interview, Milton Friedman said that in the 1990s there is “much less optimism and all the problems have been...

The Failure of Conservatism and the Future of American Economics. Part...

In 1946, in the shadow of the carillon tower on the campus of the University of Chicago, an economist by the name of Milton...

Dick Cheney and the Rise of Neo-Fascism

We are going through the worst period in American life since 1946. By the end of World War II, we had lost over half...

Romney Has a Serious Problem. (short)

Mitt Romney is doing something that many candidates do when they are attacked, and especially when they are attacked with facts that are very...