growls from Manhattan
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
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
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
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
Right now the largest, most pervasive criminal activity being carried on in this country is not illegal immigration, it’s not drug sales, it’s not human trafficking, it’s not smuggling, it’s not even the illegal sale of non-FDA approved imported wigs, it’s the
The Newt that walks like a man has come down on the OWS demonstrators, claiming that they are just a bunch of lazy, dirty, do nothings who are leaching off society. This led to the conclusion that it is okay to mace
What actually happened on ABC’s This Week? Did Stephanopoulos decide that he needed more face time on an important show or did Christiane Amanpour decide that she needed to get back in the field, a place where she is the complete package,
For those who have been paying attention you know that president Barak Obama sold the constitution and a lot of American freedoms down the river Saturday when he signed the National Defense Authorization Act, thereby robbing us of the right of habeas
I really don’t know what’s wrong with the morons in congress. I’m not talking right or left here, I’ m talking stupid. With all the work they have to do on a disastrous economy, failed infrastructure and a collapsing educational system they
Received my most positive feedback from the 11/24 blog “OWS and Why We need It,” but interestingly enough I also got a great deal of negative feedback over my suggestion that one of the cures for our problems was one or a