growls from Manhattan
The American middle class was built on factory jobs but that’s over, finished. It cannot be rebuilt on factory jobs because the kind of factory job it was built on practically doesn’t exist anymore and when it does, it’s being done by
The hideous atrocities perpetrated by police across the nation against the OWS demonstrators are a brightly illuminated example of the sickness of our country. We saw it forty years ago in the late 60’s and 70’s but those cops had an emotional
The Wall Street Occupancy continues despite poor police work and a great deal of media non-coverage. The Wall Street crowd keeps trying to get us to believe that the protestors don’t know what they are protesting about but that just doesn’t wash.
Frank Bruni a sycophant lobbyist who masquerades as a reporter for the New York Times has just done his latest obeisance to Janette Sadik-Khan and her traffic follies? Bruni’s love letter to Sadik-Khan in the 9/11/11 Times, Sunday Review was about as
Have been down to Wall Street a number of times, now and one thing is clear. This is a movement of neither the right nor the left but of a group of citizens who have gotten tired of being screwed. I’M MAD
Why Are we so Angry With banks? A good question. We need banks; they have always been an integral part of our economic blueprint and when they are functioning correctly they provide needed services. So what’s the problem? Well the problem is
What is wrong with the NYC police? Overnight they have gone from a respected, model organization to a bunch of stupid thugs. The arrest of Naomi Wolf the other night is just outrageous and must reflect badly on the department. Ray Kelly
I was on my way down to Zucotti Park on Thursday evening and ran into a march against the Keystone Pipeline. Okay, I thought, that’s a specific that needs addressing. Good for them. There’s been a lot of noise lately about the
A little noticed story appeared on page 20 of the 11/25 New York Times. Popular NPR, All Things Considered, co-host Michelle Norris will be leaving her post on the show until after the 2012 presidential elections because he husband Broderick Johnson will
Watched an interesting discussion on the Chris Matthews show in which it was correctly pointed out that Obama made a huge mistake by saying in public that the Republicans wouldn’t play nice with him. It made him look weak and ineffectual. What