growls from Manhattan
Welfare is definitely the main problem in this country; it’s destroying our economy and causing our national deficit to soar. Did I get your attention, all you Right wing conservatives? Do I hear your cheers, all you Tea Party slugs? Well don’t
The gun battle goes on. It looks at this minute, like nothing will actually get done, despite yeoman-like efforts by the President and many pro-regulation backers to get something on the books. But why isn’t it getting done? Mainly because
There’s been a lot of noise made lately about drones, and how they are an immoral weapon in our war against terrorism, but in attacking drones, I really think that we are wasting our ammunition and shooting at the wrong target.
I really didn’t want to get into the marriage controversy. The argument has always seemed too stupid to deal with. I mean who cares who marries who? What difference could it possibly make to anyone, who his next-door neighbor married?
“Crap and mendacity, that’s what Big Daddy says”, wrote Tennessee Williams and boy was he on target. It is the major tenant of all our current communication networks. I keep getting emails from my Right wing friends filled with accusations
For those of us who grew up in the shadow of WWII, fear was something with which we had a more than passing acquaintance. The first time I felt fear was sitting in our living room in Cliffside Park,
The cherry blossoms may not have appeared yet but budgets are blooming all over The Capital. True the Republicans have been coming out with useless budgets regularly but for the Democrats this is the first in a long time. Of
As I stated in an earlier blog, the problem is not the drones, the problem is the people picking the targets, mainly because they seem to have no idea what is actually going on in the Islamic world. This
No the sequester won’t be a major national disaster and that’s why no one in Washington is really sweating it. But it will be a disaster for those who lose their jobs because of it and it will probably
Went to a convention of No Labels, the other day. No Labels is an organization that is trying to convince members of congress to abandon their polarizing stances and come together to get stuff done. They are a very encouraging