Bits & Pieces #45
Over eight million people have signed up for Obamacare and many of them are the young people needed to
It’s time for this country to understand the problems that low wages cause all of us and even more important for those who make more, to understand how those same low wages will eventually lower their profits and hurt the
The Soldier Returns – But Not To Rave Reviews
If you are one of those people who have had it up to your eyeballs with the way politicians in general but especially how the Republicans have come to use every opportunity, apropos or not, to try to make political hay
Politics, Patriots and the Difference Between Them
As I watch the Republican party, a political group devoid of constructive governing ideas or sensible election policies, lashing out like a mad dog, snapping at everything and everyone that is unlucky enough to get within range of their festering,
The GOP’s Last Gasp
For those of you who are trying, and how could it be anything but unsuccessfully, to understand just what the hell it is, that congress does – I sympathize but offer no hope. We exist in a country that is desperately in
The Reality of Capital Punishment
There is a lot of noise being made about the botched execution in Oklahoma last week. William Boardman give it a whole column in Reader Supported News, accusing the state of committing an atrocity and talking about how they have
The Problem is a Lack of Justice
I’ve noticed lately that the number of people advocating violence to achieve their goals has increased at a truly alarming rate. What’s really disturbing is that it seems equally in play, both on the Right and on the Left.
The Myth of Peaceful Protest
This column was supposed to be about the following: In case our government and its various agencies and their local arms have forgotten; this country happened because an empirical government decided to do whatever they wanted and when the people
Bits & Pieces #43
Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Diane Feinstein, (D) –CA, did an almost complete turnaround from her previously established position of guardian of the intelligence services, when she led an attack on the CIA for what she described as their attempt to
Poverty Doesn’t Help Anyone
The big debate when we finally get over the non-event of Ukraine is about the minimum wage. The basic existing labor situation in this country is that productivity has risen amazingly in the last two decades but salaries haven’t.