What’s in a Name? Republicans Are Now the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party
Shakespeare and the current Republican Party do not exactly fit within the same imagery. We do not see Sarah Palin quoting Shakespeare, something that...
Tax the Rich.
It is about time that we begin to attack the problem of our inadequate national revenues. We have not had sufficient revenues to balance...
Turncoat Lieberman, Bought By Health Insurance Companies
The clear message is that Senator Joseph Lieberman, like Duke Cunningham and others, including Senator John McCain of Arizona, has now taken his former...
The Public Plan and Private Profit
Sometimes we can become so involved with our own expertise that we can calculate ourselves out the door, down the street and into a...
Jobs, Wind, Solar, Natural Gas, Kerry, Boxer, Carbon and the Obstructionists
We need jobs and we need them soon. We have about 15.1 million people unemployed, with jobs falling now at the (slowing) rate of...
Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way!
How long must we put up with this indecisive attitude on the part of Congress? Whom do they work for anyway--health care lobbyists? It...
The Big Lie
The Big Lie. We know what that is...the concept, that is. It is not a new concept. It is the idea that if you...
Reality, Dreams and Politics
Every day we live our lives, most of us, in stark reality. Some of us may say: What? Stark reality? Few of us think...
Mobs, Revolutions, Moral Majorities and Totalitarian Governments
There is a lot to be said for civic activism. The Civil Rights movement, addressing a leftover 19th Century attitude towards African-Americans called segregation,...
There are Lies…Damned Lies…And Then There Is Fox News!
Rupert Murdoch is not a likable man. He deals in...is mired in...sleaze media. But like the operator of any profitable strip club, he knows...
Another Cheney…Another Wave of “Terror?”
Danger! Deep, dark, debilitating, fear! Fear of death, fear of assassins, bombs, explosions, knives, men in black masks, hiding...waiting! Anarchy and people murdered in...
The Economy, the Stimulus and Coming Out of the Recession
Economists like to say that the current recession began in December of 2007. But things had not been going well for the average American...
Free Enterprise Is the Province of All Americans, Neo-Conservatives and Liberals.
The United States of America is the land of free enterprise. We base all our political and many of our personal decisions on that...
Why Republicans Are Terrified of ACORN.
Do you think that the attacks on ACORN are some kind of recent phenomenon? Do you think that the successful Republican technique of sending...