The Reagan Legacy: Economic and Social Disaster
The United States was once the envy of the entire world. Even some very wealthy and prominent individuals in England and France settled here...
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...
The Land of Opportunity–for the Koch Brothers.
In the south Bronx, the unemployment rate is 19%. In Detroit and other metro areas it can be even higher than that. The opportunity...
It Is Time for a Change.
It is time for a change. It is time for the average American to get in the face of other average Americans, get on...
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...
Radical Changes in American Law Enforcement
We read more and more about severe changes to American local law enforcement. It is as if the world after 9/11 had adapted to...
Time Out from Politics—to Help Lassie
Most people love dogs. An equal number love cats. Dogs and cats provide fun and solace and companionship and security and entertainment. Most of...
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...
On Social Security, the Middle Class and Real Retirement
An email has been circulating lately that starts off “Social Security becomes a Federal Benefit Check.”This email suggests that Social Security is a...
Values, Voters, Loonies and Liberty
The Tea Party Republicans recently released some video from the Voter Values Summit. One can only wonder at the thinking process, if any, in...
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...
Putin and the Russian Economy
In the Fall of 1952, Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin was born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, to Vladimir Spirodonovich and Maria Ivanovna Putin. His father...
The Health Care Lobby’s Last Ditch Attempt to Stop Obamacare
The Patient Accessibility and Affordable Care Act, also known popularly as “Obamacare” heads into the home stretch of initiation this fall, October 1st, to...