The Newtish one really screwed the pooch on Meet the Press, when he accused President Obama of being at war with the Catholic Church. It seems that the Newted thing, joined later by the other GOP candidates, took a quote from Cardinal
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Income inequality is grinding down the middle class and threatens to create a permanent underclass of able but jobless people. The financial sector in collusion with regulators and elected officials inflated and profited from the credit card bubble and then watched it
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I have gotten a lot of feedback stating that I am overreacting, re: Obama signing away our individual freedoms by signing the National Defense Authorization Act. Fair enough. But lets take a look at just one scenario that is also in the
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The Democrats have the best plans but the Republicans have a better information delivery system in almost all policy debates. If you listen to Paul Ryan speak about health insurance you realize that he is a terrific speaker with a facility for
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Well, the Newtish one really screwed the pooch on Meet the Press, when he accused President Obama of being at war with the Catholic Church. It seems that the Newted thing, joined later by the other GOP candidates, took a quote from
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What’s wrong with this country? A lot, a great deal of which is beyond our ability to fix, at least right now and another pile of which will have to wait until we solve our financial problems because to people without work,
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Watched David Rubenstein of the Carlyle Group try to white wash private equity on Fareed Zakaria. Of course he backs private equity as an investment but he assiduously avoids what happens to the people who worked for the companies bought up by
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Why isn’t our economy working? Because too many people have drunk the Cool Aide of lies and half-truths that have been laid down by the demagogues of the Right. The real truth is that; Tax cuts for the rich do not trickle
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I keep reading about all the anti-abortion activity, over 1000 bills proposed by state and federal legislators last year, and then I look to the activity that would limit contraception, usually from the same sources and I am led to believe that
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There has been a tremendous amount of speculation lately about what is wrong with America, but before we get into negative territory lets be clear about the fact that this is still the best place in the world to live. We live
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