Open Letter to Tea Party: Take a Hard Left Turn
Before anyone who is a true Populist is going to believe that you, the Tea Party members are remotely legitimate and not simply stooges...
Expansion, Not Austerity
We now have a Presidential Commission to make recommendations about the Reagan-Bush-Bush $13 trillion deficit that was created by cutting revenues in half with...
Do We Run the Military or Does the Military Run Us?
In the living memory of many seniors in this country, a relatively unpopular President of the United States fired one of the most popular...
Budget Cuts–Coming After Your Social Security
It is time to pay attention to the Peterson Commission. And you had better pay attention and tell your friends and have them tell...
Helen Thomas and the Problem of Palestine
Helen Thomas is a long-time, award-winning, ground-breaking reporter and columnist for the Associated Press, one of the remaining news services. She has,...
A Presidential Commission–To Cut Your Benefits
"Houston, we have a problem....""We're out of money."Our fiscal problems have at last reached emergency status. The Republicans, yes, the Republicans--in a purely...
The Dangerous Game
Anarchy is the absence of government. It could be a placid, pastoral society or it could be the wild, wild West. The fact is,...
The Iraq War. Flesh and Blood.
The war in Iraq was a mistake. Whatever point of view one takes, there is no real benefit to us any longer to have...
A Radical Proposal: Peace and Justice
This is about war and peace. Yes, the most important thing today is more jobs. That is the very first item that should be...
May 1910 to May 2010–100 Years of…Progress?
By 1910, the United States had changed from a collection of states along the Atlantic Coast and a group of Southern slavery states to...
Truth or Consequences
In the great annals of our entertainment history, after radio became a staple of daily listening and then later television, there was a program...
Fascism and Neoconservative Republicans
The word “Fascist” as with the terms “Socialist” and “Communist” are thrown around a lot by people who have no idea what they mean....
Profile of a Neoconservative: How Neocons Think and Vote.
Peter Roskam was elected in 2006 to fill the seat of Rep. Henry Hyde, who retired and died. Roskam is a typical Neoconservative Republican…e.g.,...
The Next American Revolution
It is time for all Americans to stop what they are doing and think about the future. Your future has already been mapped out...
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...