Government of the Lobbyists, by the Lobbyists, for the Lobbyists…
There were 14,000 lobbyists in Washington, D.C. in 2008. Those 14,000 lobbyists spent $3.3 billion dollars. That means that, in order to lobby...
Six Corporations Who Control the Media and the Message
Six huge corporations own media in this country. And they want more. In 2007, Kevin Martin, the head of the FCC and the stooge...
Why Tea Party Participants Are Nobodies, Like Most Americans
We are seeing a lot of people with signs running around Washington, D.C. complaining about Nancy Pelosi and President Obama, calling them liars, asking...
Republicans Have Become the Lunatic Fringe
When Joe Wilson, who is thus far the GOP Representative from South Carolina, called the President a liar and was quickly found to be...
The Man Who Caused the Recession
It wasn't someone at Bear, Stearns or at Lehman Bros. They were doing what they do, or at least doing what they have been...
Dick Cheney and Failure On the Right
Someone made an interesting and valid point on television recently...a significant event in itself. In one brief segment between pharmaceutical commercials for sexual member...
For Private Insurers but Against the People–Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska
He's Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska and he is supporting private insurance against the people of Nebraska. 73% of the people want a public...
Franken, Reagan, Health Care Reform And Our Debt to Unions
Every American must support health care reform as if your life depended on it, because it does. From the man in his late 40s...
Blue Dogs With a Yellow Stripe
Examples of courageous behavior: Soldiers going to the rescue of a downed comrade in the face of withering fire. A skilled pilot landing a...
Neoconservative Republican Name Calling Not New with Health Care Reform
The shouting and screaming at the health care town halls did not simply happen suddenly out of thin air. These screaming know-nothings have been...
The Choice Between Neoconservative and Progressive Becomes Clearer.
There is no mystery about the difficult circumstances in which we find the American economy. Since 1981, when Ronald Reagan cut income taxes for the...
Beyond Stupidity: Republican Avarice In the Health Care Debate
Suddenly, everyone has a point of view. Everyone is an authority on health care, Communism, Homeland Security, the Economy and Socialism. People with no...
The State of American Monopolistic Media
Do you wonder why you only see the typical kind of "he-said, she-said" commentary--and news, too--that calls for some flack on one side of...
Health Care Reform Needs a Public Option. The Public Needs to Call Senators.
Who is going to vote for the Public Option, and who isn't? That is the question. Everyone who supports health care reform says that,...