Beck at CPAC: Libertarian…maybe; Populist…definitely not!
Glenn Beck made a splendid keynote speech at the CPAC Conference. He was in rare form as are many speakers with great imagination who...
CPAC Conference: Armey Firing Blanks
Dick Armey gave a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday. He walked in wearing a cowboy hat. He was ready to take...
The Neoconservative Republican Agenda Is Quite Simple. Lie and Lie Again.
In the cool, rarefied air of Senate multi-millionaires it may be possible to conduct policy discussions with great civility. At least on the non-producing...
Who Is Going to Pay the National Debt?
There was a wonderful line once in an old movie. A very savvy and skilled old billiards player, a hustler, was about to...
Budget Crisis Commission: Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare
In Washington today, a whole hall full of white-shirts and rimless glasses sat at attention while the gurus of fiscal policy told us that...
How to Tell the Neocons Without a Scorecard: Rep. Judy Biggert.
We have a huge problem in this country. It is a problem of recognizing what kinds of people our politicians really are. Are they...
The Economy Is In Big Trouble—Part II, Our Diminished Future.
To understand your life in the future, you must understand that what happened in the last 8 years, particularly in the last year of...
The American Economy In Big Trouble–Part I, Background
A little history. In 2000, George W. Bush was elected President of the United States and took over in January 2001. Within days of...
Are Neoconservatives Making Us a Laughing Stock Around the World?
I am sure that Senator Mitch McConnell, whom some pundit called, I believe, a “turtle-hybrid” recently feels that he has accomplished quite a bit...
The Dangerous State of Our Legal System
When Barack Obama became our 44th President, we thought that things would begin to change. And they have. But not much. Yet some people...
The Supreme Court Disgracefully Wrong on Freedom of Speech
Many people, on both sides of the political spectrum understand the implications of the recent Supreme Court ruling that says that corporations may basically...
Why Neoconservatives Vote Against Jobs.
It is no secret that the Neoconservative Republicans and their friends on talk radio are against job creation. They voted 100%, every single one,...
We Can’t All “Just Get Along.” Here’s Why.
Our political system is broken. It didn’t happen accidentally. It was deliberate and it has been happening for a long time, gradually, methodically. Corporations...
David Brooks and Neocon Advice to the Elderly
“There you go again…” as a famous “B” movie actor once memorably said…memorable because he happened to be President at the time. Oh...