American Ignorance and Republican Arrogance
Mobs of people, stirred up by lies, are attending town halls on health care reform. The town halls are being held, by and large, by Democratic members of the House and Senate. The biggest reason is to...
View ArticleAre Neocons Making Us Latin America?
This is not about immigration or our borders. It is not about cultural differences or becoming more Hispanic. This is about a growing income inequality in the United States that is just now beginning...
View ArticleNeocon Corporate Moguls Attack Middle Class Workers
This is a country that has created some of the greatest industries and the greatest fortunes in the history of the world. In 1883 Thomas Edison and many others began the age of electricity, lighting...
View ArticleWhy Governor Walker and the Neocons Hate Unions
The Neocon Republicans believe that government should intrude in our lives when it comes to religion and abortion and tax cuts for the rich and guns not only for hunting but for hunting people clearly...
View ArticleIt Is Time to Balance the Budget on the Backs of the Rich
It is time to stop stealing the pension funds of firemen and teachers and nurses. It is time for real Americans to stand up. It is time to give the 1%, the 3 million people out of 300 million who take...
View ArticleThe Economics of Robert Reich.
Many short men are taller than Robert Reich. But as they said about Ari Onassis (who wasn’t that short, Ms. Onassis was just a little taller) he was not so short when he stood on his wallet. When Dr....
View ArticleThe Legacy of Ronald Reagan
It is time that we took a step back from the precipice that is the current American political atmosphere and try to understand how we got here. It all started with Ronald Reagan. For several years from...
View ArticleIt Is Time for a Change.
It is time for a change. It is time for the average American to get in the face of other average Americans, get on the phone, get on the Internet….in the office, neighborhood, schools…everywhere…and...
View ArticleThe Land of Opportunity–for the Koch Brothers.
In the south Bronx, the unemployment rate is 19%. In Detroit and other metro areas it can be even higher than that. The opportunity to emerge from those areas, and now increasingly widening areas in...
View ArticleDemocrats in 2014
If you talk to leading progressives these days, you’ll be sure to hear this message: The Democratic Party should embrace the economic populism of New York Mayor-elect Bill DeBlasio and Massachusetts...
View ArticleThe Koch Brothers, Fascism and the 2014 Elections – Part II
So, here we have two brothers, raised in privilege by Frederick Koch, Sr., a man who was at first accepted, then apparently shunned by Joseph Stalin while living in Russia. Koch became an advocate of...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ First Act: Attack Abortion Rights
The Republicans have returned to power. They now control the House of Representatives and the Senate. They rode in on a wave of gerrymandered House seats and the contributions of hugely wealthy...
View ArticleThe Republicans and Growing Neo-Fascism in America
Many people think of Fascism and they think of Nazis and the Gestapo and concentration camps. That concept, while accurate as far as it goes, is not the only perspective on Fascism. There are other...
View ArticleJobs in the 21st Century
American society is crumbling. Our buildings, roads, bridges, dams—all our municipal facilities are breaking down. And there is very little investment being made in correcting that situation. Something...
View ArticleBruce Rauner: Money and Neo-Fascism
For those who don’t know, Bruce Rauner is the new Republican governor of Illinois. And money? We all know what money is. Rauner is all about money. Over a long career in finance, he has amassed a...
View ArticleTrump, Bush and Rubio — The Three Blind Mice of 2016
There is so much hype about so little talent in the GOP’s “Race to Once More Losing the Presidency” that we thought it might be a good idea to take a look inside the Clown Car and provide a little...
View ArticleScott Walker, Enemy of the People; Dr. Ben Carson, Separator of Siamese Twins
Scott Walker is riding the Clown Car Express. He’s the evil clown, the one you always hear about who scares children. He is scary. He didn’t scare Wisconsin voters enough. They failed to recall him,...
View ArticleThe foundations of American Neo-Fascism
Hitler, above all, was a racist. He thought that interbreeding between different races was wrong, but not merely wrong—disastrously wrong. He thought that Darwin’s discovery of the laws of evolution...
View ArticleThe Koch Brothers, Fascism and the 2014 Elections – Part II
So, here we have two brothers, raised in privilege by Frederick Koch, Sr., a man who was at first accepted, then apparently shunned by Joseph Stalin while living in Russia. Koch became an advocate of...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ First Act: Attack Abortion Rights
The Republicans have returned to power. They now control the House of Representatives and the Senate. They rode in on a wave of gerrymandered House seats and the contributions of hugely wealthy...
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