The Democrats and the Republicans continue to bang heads and the President keeps trying to get in his licks whenever he can but that’s all to be expected. What isn’t to be expected, what runs counter to all our beliefs and expectations
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More and more lately we are hearing the far right, ranting about how they are never going to sit still for the coming invasion of Sharia law. Really? Who asked them to? I mean does anyone really think that Sharia law is
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I keep wanting to write about global warming but I also abhor the concept of trying to make the great intellectually unwashed understand that it’s real. I mean how do you write stuff to people who don’t read? So I decided to
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In an earlier blog we spoke a lot about Barak Obama and whether or not he was the right guy for the job. Now, with the Republican candidates starting to line up to try and take Obama’s job we’re going to take
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The number of children living in poverty in the United Sates has increased by four million since 2000 The number of homeless children increased 41% between 2007 & 2009 In 2009 an average of 15.6 million children received food stamps monthly, an
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America has seen two generations of great billionaires. The first was exemplified by Andrew Carnegie and the robber barons of the post civil war era. They were avaricious, imperious and dictatorial but they created a great industrial machine on which the dominance
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I keep hearing people say that TARP and the Stimulus were failures. Only if you’re a Republican or someone too dumb to understand what actually happened with them. TARP was probably one of the best ideas the Bush administration ever came up
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The Democrats and Republicans are gong at each other tooth and nail, battling over raising the debt limit and using that fight to advance their agendas. The Democrats want to create employment and maintain as many of our social services as possible.
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The game is almost over. The politicians have now wasted months agonizing over the debt ceiling, a period of time during which, a bleeding nation has gone into intensive care without the attention of the doctors. Nothing has been done about the
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If you aren’t disgusted by the gyrations of our government over the debt ceiling then you aren’t paying attention. A bunch of Tea Party and ultra conservative members of the house, are holding the rest of the United States Government hostage in
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