13 Articles

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Dear President Obama; Who Are You Getting Your Afganistan Advice From?
(8 comments) Who would have thought last year that on assuming the presidency, that you would consider plunging deeper in to this quagmire without an exit strategy? The deeper you plunge, the greater your rejection of the history of occupations fueling insurgencies in that region. The more you insulate yourself from contrary judgments to those you have been receiving from your inner councils.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Health Ins. "Reform" Over: Dems Failing the People, Republicans Disgracing Selves
(13 comments) The House of Representatives debate on the health insurance “reform” is over with the Democrats failing the people and the Republicans disgracing themselves as having left their minds back in the third grade (with apologies to third graders). House Democrats were determined to pass any bill with a nice sounding name...

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Ralph Nader: Only the Super Rich Can Save Us!
(7 comments) Will an awakening of conscience among the progressive super-rich save America from the its baser tendencies? Warren Buffet plays a central role in my first work of fiction, Only the Super Rich Can Save US!

Sunday, September 6, 2009
Words in the service of corporate masters.
(1 comments) The corporate controlled media and their proxies continue their vicious, and soporific, assault on the citizens of this nation. This article by Ralph Nader discusses clearly and succinctly the erosion of truth and reality by what is left of journalism today.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009
The Drive for Single Payer
(2 comments) After protests at Senate hearings and health care events by single payer advocates (visit singlepayeraction.org), 6 physicians from Oregon, calling themselves “Mad as Hell Doctors,” are crossing the country in a Winnebago making stops in nearly 30 cities, to advance full medicare for all. Everybody in, nobody out. After Obama's met with scores of Health Care CEOS he refuse outright to meet with these advocates

Saturday, July 25, 2009
Obama Learned Next to Nothing From the Clintons On Health Care Reform
(9 comments) Affordable health care for all Americans is being sacrificed at the alter of greed. Why President Obama is repeating mistakes from the past by allowing conservative Democrats to sabotage his reforms.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Last Year's Excuses Are Gone. Come On Already
(28 comments) Face it, America. You are a corporate-controlled country with the symbols of democracy in the constitution and statutes just that-symbols of what the founding fathers believed or hoped would be reality.

Thursday, July 2, 2009
Did Obama Appoint People With Track Record of Making Right Decisions?
(1 comments) Here is a fundamental question that should have been asked of presidential candidate Barack Obama: "If you get to the White House, will you appoint to top positions Americans who have a track record of making the right decisions in their respective fields?" "Of course, I will," Obama would have undoubtedly replied. Of course, he did not...

Saturday, May 9, 2009
The Single Payer Taboo
(6 comments) Among the giant taboos afflicting Congress these days is the proposal to create a single payer health insurance system (often called full Medicare for everyone). How can this be? Don't the elected politicians represent the people? Don't they always have their finger to the wind? Well, single payer is only supported by a majority of the American people, physicians and nurses.

Saturday, May 2, 2009
In the Public Interest
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Where were the giant accounting firms?
(8 comments) An indictment of the accounting firms, which are supposed to be our first-line defense against fraud and deceit. These are supposed to be independent professionals with judgment about real, underlying value. Evidence is that they were paid big money to rubber-stamp Wall Street's cooked books.

Friday, March 13, 2009
In the Public Interest
(2 comments) Here are seven avoidance indicators which outline what Washington is not doing to prevent another round of greed and misdeeds by the Wall Street few against the innocent many throughout the country.

Friday, February 27, 2009
What if there were "Academy Awards"- for civic heroism?
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