Politics

Obama—Not Torture—Deserves Credit for Bin Laden’s Death

I know I’m rather late posting this, but I went to Rome a couple of weeks ago and my head remained there long after my body returned. Even now I’m still not in much of a political mood but this story is too big not to comment on. When I …Read More

Obama’s Re-Election Campaign Begins

Like most progressives, I liked what President Obama had to say in his budget speech last Wednesday. For the last two years I’ve been criticizing him for never standing up and making his case to the American people, so when he finally does that I have to give him some …Read More

Let me offer an idea. The next time you’re arguing with a conservative (if you never argue with conservatives, you should try it sometime) call yourself a “small-government progressive” or “small-government liberal” and see how they react. If you call yourself a liberal or progressive, they’ll just dismiss you and …Read More

The Murky Moral Questions of Libya

I’ve remained silent on the Libya issue until now for a number of reasons, the first and foremost being that it’s taken me a long time to settle on a position. Even now my opinion is highly nuanced and subject to change as the situation develops and more information comes …Read More

Boiling the Middle Class

We’ve all heard the anecdote about cooking frogs. If you toss a live frog into a pot of boiling water, the shock of the heat will be so great that the frog will immediately leap out to save itself. But if you place the frog in a pot of lukewarm …Read More

The Repugnican Tea Party won mid-term election victories based upon promises of bringing back the jobs and restoring the economy. Instead, Repugnican Tea Party leader John Boehner says “so be it” if federal government workers are laid off, and Repugnican Tea Party Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is ready to give …Read More

Reuters photo Power-drunk Repugnican Tea Party Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker gives what he called a “fireside chat” the night before a damning recording of him believing that he was speaking on the telephone with his billionaire campaign contributor David Koch was released. The recorded 20-minute phone conversation must be listened to …Read More

To be brief…… Citizens Capitalism is a form of capitalism that takes into account a few things that our present system does not. I’ll just list them and maybe put in a short word or two. 1- All children born into this country inherit, in roughly equal part, the responsible …Read More

How the form of capitalism we now have got off track and is being rotted from the inside out.

Revolution Egypt: No American Intervention Necessary

It is positively inspiring to see what’s happening in Tunisia and Egypt these days. When the Tunisian people successfully ousted their corrupt rulers, the Ben Ali family, I wrote about how this may be just the tip of the iceberg in a new global era of human rights through a …Read More

Revolution Tunisia

It’s rare when it comes to news these days, but every once in awhile a story comes around that is genuinely encouraging with regards to the future of the human race. Yes, giant corporations and corrupt governments are funneling wealth into fewer and fewer hands while ignoring any impact their …Read More

Memo to Bill Daley: Most Americans are Liberal

America, meet Barack Obama’s new chief of staff Bill Daley: Who is Bill Daley? Well, let’s just say if you liked Rahm Emanuel, you’ll love Bill Daley. Not only does he have a background in Chicago politics (he’s the current mayor’s brother), but he’s also got ties to Wall Street …Read More

Know Your REAL Enemy

Every year at my high school, there was a “career day” for seniors. We had the opportunity to choose to hear from a variety of speakers who had been invited to discuss their various careers as a way of helping us determine the course of our own lives. Of the …Read More

This Moment in American History

We tend to take the conditions of the world during our short life-spans for granted. Unless we live through some kind of earth-shattering, world-changing event, we fall into the trap of believing—if only subconsciously—that things were always more or less the same as they are now. I love the end …Read More

I will try to make this as brief as possible because I want to increase the likelihood that people will read it. If you agree with my assessment, I hope you’ll spread this around the internet far and wide, because this is a conversation that needs to happen NOW if …Read More

Julian Assange, my hero

 Reuters photo WikiLeaks crusader Julian Assange of Australia, shown above in a photo taken last month, is closest that we have to this guy: I’ve been following the WikiLeaks saga for some time now but until now I have yet to comment. (I actually wanted things to gel a bit before …Read More

I’m not sure why, but even though everyone expected it, even though I called it a month ago, I’m still extremely angry about Obama’s decision to cave in to the Republicans on the Bush tax-cut issue. Perhaps I’d been holding out some hope until the very end. Perhaps it’s because …Read More

Obama is dead. Long live Obama.

For all practical purposes, the Obama presidency is over. I hope I’m way off-base but it seems to be the truth. The weeks following the mid-term elections have been so discouraging that I’ve barely been able to summon the motivation to write about them. After two years in which Change …Read More

It’s interesting how it is just a given in the United States of America (and in other plutocracies) that in an economic downturn, it’s the poor and the vanishing middle class who will have to do with even less — certainly it won’t be the rich. I say: Fuck. That. Shit. …Read More

There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — [pauses] — shame on you. Fool me — [pauses] — You can’t get fooled again! – George W. Bush It’s unsettling to know that you are …Read More

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