growls from Manhattan
The up and coming fight over the nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense should be a neat one. The Republican’s have drawn up their full neo-com battery of complaints and complainers in a pre-nomination attempt to influence the
Kristen Gillibrand, the Democratic senator who has been making noises about wanting to run for Mayor of NY has a very appealing energy policy that she has just published. It isn’t perfect, and sometimes it is imprecise but at
No wonder northerners think of southerners as being retarded. Down in good ole Kentucky, they have a clown named Tom Riner, a state senator and also a Baptist minister who has managed to get a law on the books that
If you have any doubts about the rich and powerful taking over the political systems of not only America but the whole world, the front page of the NY Times on Monday Dec. 3rd will surely put them to rest.
In part 1 of this discourse, we indicated a few areas where the government could acquire additional funds that would help with the country’s expenses and also help lower the deficit. But funding alone won’t do the trick. As the Republican’s
Now that the election is over, the Fiscal Cliff has become the big topic of discussion and controversy. It would seem that Obama and Boehner, if left to their own devices, would be able to hack something out that would,
I am as much against many of the new and proposed laws controlling our freedom of speech and movement as any one else on the planet but I am also against what has become the newest defense of various
Well, the Republican pundits have stopped braying about how we should get off all the small stuff and get on the big job of creating jobs. They obviously felt that way during the election because Obama’s record on it
A few weeks ago, I received a letter from the president of the University of Notre Dame, from which I graduated over fifty years ago. I get the impression that the letter had been sent to all contributing alumni. I
This Friday the nation was shocked by a horrifying crime. Those of you who have read this column for any length of time know that I am an adamant advocate of serious gun control. This despite the fact that for