growls from Manhattan
For years we have had to listen to the whining of the conservatives and their media toadies about the tax money that goes to support NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It seems that they are all bent out of shape
With all the trauma going on right now over the horrors in Japan, a great deal is being debated about pros and cons of nuclear power. This is one of the most important debates we will ever have in this country and
The Problem: The tale below is just an illustration of what’s wrong with this country right now. It’s a tale of greed, the kind that is tearing America apart. Fortunately all the parties are rich so it isn’t the usual tale of
I was surprised a while back when Democrat Dick Durban and Republican Lindsey Graham, appearing on Meet the Press, both admitted that Social Security actually had nothing to do with the deficit. This is something that I have long maintained and have
Some guy with the unlikely name of Charles M. Blow got the center section of the New York Times OP-Ed page a short while ago just so he could explain that people in this country don’t really blame the Republicans for the
A New Joe McCarthy: Peter King is Joe McCarthy. It is true that in the last ten years, a majority of the terrorist attacks around the world, have been perpetrated by followers of Islam, so Peter King has decided that all Muslims
Everyone with any intelligence agrees that any nation needs a functioning healthcare system and overall coverage. It was evident at the time Barak Obama was elected that the existing healthcare system was going to bankrupt the nation. Then Obama forced through the
A New Level of Stupidity When the Republicans were running a few months back, all they did was scream about Obama not doing anything about unemployment. Now when asked about his reaction to proposed Republican budget cuts that will cost hundreds of
The revolt in Egypt brings up, once again, the question faced over and over in America; do we demand that democracy exist all over the world, no matter the cost or content or do we support non-democratic governments who support our goals?
When I was a young person there was a great deal of discussion about how children arrived at the ability to process logical thought at about the age of seven. It was called the age of reason because supposedly at or about