End This Stupid Fight
Can we end this stupid fight? For five years the GOP refused to admit the need for affordable, universal health care, some because they were too dumb to understand its necessity, some because they were too callous to admit the
New Views on Obamacare
John Hayward, who bills himself as “Powerful Conservative Voice” on his rightwing blog Human Events has taken off on the ACA with a blistering attack, filled with Conservative fact and numbers. Mr. Hayward, who is the print version of Rush
Cruz the Crass
The Ukrainian thing is an awful mess. There is really nothing effective that we can do about it and there probably shouldn’t be, we have no dog in this fight, but that never stopped a member of the GOP from
Politics, Putin & the Ukraine
The standoff between Russia and the rest of the world over Crimea and the Ukraine isn’t gung anywhere. The Republicans in this country who are using it to attack Obama are no better than Putin. The reality is that there are
Our Fractured Foreign Policy
A very important and probably for the first time, significant discussion broke out on This Week… It was truly stimulating because for the first time in memory some real strategic, as opposed to political, questions were asked and although few were answered,
Water: The Infrastructure Project No One Wants
In a world with everything going crazy, with the Russians invading Ukraine, the Iranians making believe that they can actually build an atomic bomb, the Israeli’s pretending that they want to treat the Palestinians as equals and the President of Afghanistan
Fossil Fuel: The Enemy
I read two stories today, neither of which are new, both of which made me think of the insanity of the whole energy/environment conflict in this country. The first story had to do with ten thousand gallons of crude oil
Bits & Pieces #42
Well it seems that the budget deal, has finally rent the Republican party asunder. What really happened is that Wall Street, which usually wants to support the GOP, has finally had enough. The shutdown scared the hell out of them and the
Hello Again
The Curmudgeon is back and very unhappy about our unscheduled departure. For those of you who have noticed, we haven’t been in your email for over a month and we only discovered that fact about ten days ago. It seems that our
Power Does Not Equal Inelligence
Last week, in an interview with The Daily Beast’s Eli Lake, James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, the same James Clapper who lied to congress under oath, when he told them that NSA was not collecting large quantities of American’s phone records,