91 Articles

Saturday, October 11, 2008
It Takes a Village -- The Whole Village..
How do we pull this economy out of the mud? As the US stock market dives to new lows, one nation's stock market is booming -- Iraq's. Why? Franklin Roosevelt would understand.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Palin/Karzai Summit, Exposed
(3 comments) Since the McCain campaign wouldn't let reporters in on Palin's chat with Hamid Karzai, here's what I say they said. I would be delighted to correct this version if the McCain campaign sends me a tape of the actual meeting. Otherwise, I enter this into the public record as the only known public version of that meeting.

Saturday, September 20, 2008
Chicken Little Was Right
(1 comments) Funny how history has a way of turning back on itself. Remember when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and Republicans claimed that Ronald Reagan's aggressive policies toward the Soviet Union had won the Cold War. In particularly they claim that Reagan's fabulously expensive "Star Wars" anti-missile system had forced the Soviets to spend so much on their own military projects that it bankrupted them. Now it's our turn

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
John McCain's Bay of Pigs
(1 comments) The McCain camp is asking us to choose him over Barack Obama because McCain has the kind of international/military experience we need in today's evermore complicated and dangerous world. But, even though McCain is still only a US Senator, he played a key role in a recent international crisis. And what happened, before, during and in the aftermath of that crisis should give reason for concern.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
McCain's Palin Equation
(2 comments) Why Sarah Palin? Why? It's a question bothering at least as many Republicans as Democrats this morning. Why did John McCain pick an untested, first-term governor of Alaska for the second highest office in the land?

Thursday, August 28, 2008
"Now, This!"
(3 comments) I've spent a lot of time of late mulling what I think are the most important questions of our time....At least some answers -- I believe the most important answers -- can be found in a book written during the Reagan presidency by media scholar, Neil Postman, in his book,"Amusing Ourselves to Death."This may well be, the most important thing you read this year.

Monday, August 18, 2008
This is NOT your father's GOP
(5 comments) We said we learned the dangers in the methods employed by the fascist state and fascist politicians - the lies, the smears, the strong-arm tactics, the rule of ignorance and prejudice over intelligence, reason and liberal social policies. And we said, "never again." But...

Monday, August 11, 2008
Secure the Evidence --- NOW !
The Bush administration's days are numbered. That's both a good and bad news story. The good news is we are now less than six months away from the end of America's longest nightmare. The bad news is we have less than six months for congress and the courts to insure that, when these guys leave Washington on Jan 21, 2009, they leave behind an accurate and complete historical record.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Keeping it Simple - Stupid
(7 comments) I'm a simple man. And as such I have a lot of simple solutions to problems others seem intent on making so complicated they can't possibly work... and then don't work. Right now there's three things Congress is fiddling over, each of which I figure could be solved on a single sheet of one of those legal yellow notepads:

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
The Excuses Administration
Amazing, isn't it? We've now lived through seven and half years of goose-stepping arrogance married with utterly breathtaking incompetence, and have six more months of it yet to play out.

Friday, July 11, 2008
Whiners and Diners
What else would one expect from a campaign run by a couple who's average monthly credit card balance is $50,000. Or from a wanna-be First Lady who buys $3000 designer pantsuits, three or four at a crack.

Thursday, July 10, 2008
Stupid Day
(3 comments) Yesterday must have been declared "Democratic Party Stupid Day," and someone forgot to tell me. I mean, after nearly eight years of being soaked in GOP Stupid, I would have at least appreciated a warning so I could have prepared for a 180 degree change in stupid. A citizen could get whiplash.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Women (Scorned) Gone Wild
(3 comments) I never thought I could dislike anyone as much as I've come to detest George W. Bush. But a small group is vying for that same "honor." I am speaking of Hillary Clinton's deep-pocketed contributors, the "Hillraisers."

Monday, July 7, 2008
Jimmy Carter Nailed it, 31-Years Ago
(10 comments) Have you forgotten what real leadership -- and real straight talk -- look and sound like? Well here's a refresher course. Back in 1977 much maligned, President Jimmy Carter, showed genuine leadership and political courage.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Freedom: Nothing Left to Lose?
(4 comments) Ironically historians will record that it was another supply-side Republican who greased the skids under capitalism as we've known it.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
We "Deserve" What?
(3 comments) Hey, did you hear? We Americans "deserve" something. Apparently we "deserve relief from high gas and oil prices. At least that's what a person would figure if they read, listen or watch the news. The papers and airwaves are filled with politicians, in both parties, huffing and puffing and promising Americans they are going to find out who's behind high gas prices and make them stop doing whatever it is they are doing.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
When Doing the Right Thing, May be The Wrong Thing
(6 comments) To impeach, or not to impeach -- that's the question.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Hillary's "No Signal Available" Speech
(1 comments) As I watched Hillary Clinton begin her speech last night I wondered why she had chosen such an unlikely place, a university basement, three floors underground. It was the kind of public venue I'd expect Dick Cheney to select.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Can We Dig It? Should We Dig It?
(1 comments) The fight is on. No, not the primary election. I mean, yeah, that's on too, finally. But I'm referring to a different battle, the battle for the world's energy future. And it's going to get dirty.

Friday, May 30, 2008
But Can You Handle the Truth?
(11 comments) Are all the problems popping up around the world, financial, social, environmental, to energy costs, really just your usual run-of-the-mill messes. And that all that's needed are some new faces in high places and all will be well again. Really? I wish it were that simple.

Friday, May 23, 2008
Imagine; Vice President Hillary Clinton... just imagine...
(19 comments) Vice President Hillary R. Clinton. Go ahead, imagine it. No, seriously, imagine it. Now's the time to consider what it would be like, how it would work, or not work.

Monday, May 19, 2008
Deconstructing Bush Speech to Arab Nations
(4 comments) Last week President Bush told Arab nations they had to get with the program.. the democracy, free enterprise, free trade program. Here's the subtext of those remarks.

Thursday, May 15, 2008
Global Warming or Eviction Notices?
Melting ice caps might be the most dramatic evidence that we are already dangerously close to just such a tipping point, but it's not the only evidence. Just ask the folks in Tornado Ally, and Burma. They have tales to tell. They've already gotten their first eviction notices.

Friday, May 9, 2008
You want MORE B.S?
(1 comments) Can it be that this presidential campaign will be B.S.-Free? Can it be that Americans have finally wised up and will reject the politics of distraction and utter nonsense? We'll see.

Monday, April 28, 2008
America's Maoist-like Cultural Revolution
(2 comments) Middle Americans what to know: Are you now, or have you ever been, an elitist?

Monday, April 21, 2008
The Pope's Visit: Shame or Disgrace?
(6 comments) The media fell all over itself covering the Pope's visit last week. What did they leave unreported?

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Why I AM a bitter man
(16 comments) Barack Obama has gotten a lot of flack for saying some Americans are bitter. Well, count me among them, and I understand precisely why I'm bitter.

Friday, April 11, 2008
Of Not Looking Down
(1 comments) How are Americans responding to the credit crunch? By crunching more of course.

Monday, April 7, 2008
URGENT MEMO
Question for Hillary Supporters: Are you giving Hillary the same kind of pass on her obvious personal and professional flaws that Republicans gave George W. Bush eight years ago?

Thursday, April 3, 2008
They WERE Warned!
As you watch members of Congress, the administration and the Fed try to look like innocent bystanders as the capital markets collapse, email them this post. It's a 17-year old scan of my testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 1991.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Food For Thought
How many problems can mankind manage at once before the whole thing become unmanageable? Your life may depend on the answer.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Letting Go the Tiger's Tail
(1 comments) The Bush administration knows all hell will break loose when US troops finally withdraw. All they are doing now is making sure that happens after they leave office.

Monday, March 17, 2008
Hillary Clinton's Campaign IEDs (Insinuations, Exaggerations and Distortions)
(6 comments) On winning ugly.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Hillary W. Clinton v. John W. McCain
(4 comments) Five reasons why the Democratic Party's herd of voters may not be leading us to the White House, but over a cliff -- yet again.

Monday, March 10, 2008
Memo to Federal Employees: When Is It Ethical to Break the Law?
When is it ethical to fight illegality with illegality? Tough question. Dangerous question.

Monday, March 3, 2008
It Really IS the Economy, Stupid
(21 comments) While his heart tells him this election should be about the war in Iraq, the author's head tells him that the subject better quickly become the US economy. If it doesn't the war will end anyway.

Friday, February 22, 2008
John McCain: Then and Now
(8 comments) The author's not-so-fond memories of the Keating Five Scandal -- with accompanying transcript of them talking to regulators.

Thursday, February 21, 2008
It's Over
(4 comments) Only only the most lobotomized Clinton Moony can deny what's as obvious as the nose on his or her face.

Monday, February 18, 2008
Harry Reid: Shame or Disgrace?
(3 comments) Harry Reid violated the oath he took to "preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States of America from enemies foreign or domestic." Ask the two Democratic candidates if they would push to replace Reid immediately upon taking their oath of office.

Friday, February 8, 2008
Chicago 1968 - Denver 2008
(6 comments) The Democratic Party and the nation paid a horrible price for what transpired at the '68 Democratic convention -- a price we may be about to pay again.

Thursday, January 24, 2008
Memo to: William Jefferson Clinton
(4 comments) From: Those of us with a memory.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Think About It (Before It's Too Late)
(7 comments) The author want to speak directly to supporters of Hillary Clinton. No, not speak. . . plead.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth
(1 comments) The Clintons and their institutional Democratic Party old guard shocked, insulted, even hurt that black Americans might prefer upstart Barack Obama over the next in line, Hillary Clinton.

Monday, January 7, 2008
Greased Pigs
(2 comments) The administration has allowed oil companies to pillage and plunder, not only the American people, but other, less well-connected industries and small businesses now saddled with astronomically high energy bills.

Thursday, January 3, 2008
Borrowers: Victims or Accomplices?
(4 comments) The old-fashioned American dream morphed before our eyes into a frenzied binge of lend & spend, lend & spend, lend and spend. What our parents would have called a "spend-thrift" lifestyle, Republicans pointed to as proof "the American economy is on a roll."

Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Pearls for Swine?
(1 comments) Talk about your historic takeovers. David Rubenstein, co-founder of the private-equity firm Carlyle Group, just bought a 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta for $21.3 million.

Saturday, December 29, 2007
Bhutto: What Now?
(3 comments) Bhutto is dead. Is it time for the US to completely re-think our Middle East policies?

Saturday, December 29, 2007
Bhutto: What Now?
(3 comments) Bhutto is dead. Is it time for the US to completely re-think our Middle East policies?

Friday, December 21, 2007
What an Annoying Year!
(6 comments) The author's list of "sick-ofs" includes everything from casino ads to Christian fundamentalists to "all things bimbo."

Friday, December 14, 2007
Yikes! I've Been Assimilated
(1 comments) Our intrepid author finally succumbs to the Borg, in this case, a health care company.

Monday, December 10, 2007
Mitt and Me
(1 comments) Romney's speech raised more questions than it answered.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007
People of The Book(s)
(2 comments) A gratuitously offensive look at religion and religion in politics.

Friday, November 30, 2007
I Read the News Today
(2 comments) Oh boy! Rove, Lott, and endangered species (hopefully them).

Thursday, November 29, 2007
Why Won't the Media Ask Romney and Huckaby the Tough Questions About Their Religions?
(7 comments) Does Mitt Romney wear "temple garments"? What are they? Think of a discreet form of chastity belts.

Monday, November 26, 2007
A Darwinian Rapture
(2 comments) Even as hormonally poisoned teenage boy with his first set of wheels, I had enough sense to know that cars, trucks, trains and planes running on finite million-year old fossilized trash from the earths' previous incarnations was not a sustainable model.

Friday, November 16, 2007
Life Imitates Art
"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." Justice Department reopens probe into warrantless domestic spying.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Let's Talk Turkey
(4 comments) With Thanksgiving so near I figured this would be a good time to talk turkey about Turkey. This time it's the country that's on the table.

Friday, November 9, 2007
Oops
Whoops goes the economy.

Friday, November 2, 2007
Don't Ask. Don't Tell. SHOW.
(4 comments) It's kinda hard to swallow when Muskasey said he wasn't familiar with waterboarding. It's been described in excruciating detail in the popular press since it first burst into the national consciousness a couple of years ago -- thanks to Vlad the Hoser at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Pursue Them! Pursue Them to the Grave!
(7 comments) Accountability counts. But the only accountability war criminals like Kissinger have faced has been rhetorical scoldings. They were allowed to go on with their lives as if the blood of thousands wasn't virtually dripping from their hands.

Thursday, October 25, 2007
It's Time to Revive the Great American Tradition of Skunkworks
(4 comments) Skunkworks? What's that? Hint: It breaks great minds free from hide-bound organizations crippled by special interests and group-think.

Monday, October 15, 2007
Ich Bin Ein Berliner (That goes for you too)
(10 comments) How will we explain the things we've allowed this administration to get away with -- the torture, the "renditions," the secret prisons, the warrant-less wiretapping, the lies we and our media allowed to stand? What are we going to tell our grand children when they ask us what the hell we were thinking, feeling and doing while all that was afoot?

Friday, October 5, 2007
Worst Clinton Contributor Ever
(2 comments) And you thought Norman Hsu was an embarrassment. Likely international gun runner Farhad Azima is positioning himself to be the Ahmad Chalabi of Hillary Clinton's presidency.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The Democrats' Death Wish
Part IV. Yes, the author is on that jag again. And he will stay on it until Democrats either put that gun to their heads and pull the trigger in November 2008, or wise up.

Monday, September 24, 2007
Betray Us, Indeed! But Who Really Betrayed Us?
(10 comments) On the right we have the GOP propaganda machine making hay off the MoveOn ad while it can. On the left -- well, that's a little harder to explain, because now there's two of them: Establishment Democrats -- and the rest of us.

Monday, September 17, 2007
De-Baathifiy America: Bring on the Wimps
The similarities between ruling members of the Republican party and the now purged Iraqi Baathist leaders are really quite stunning.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Preview of Bush's Thursday Night Speech
(2 comments) The author prepares you for our fearless leader's speech by dredging up a little history.

Thursday, September 6, 2007
Hillary: A Clear and Present Danger
(9 comments) "I've said it before and I'll say it again –- Hillary Clinton will do to the Democratic Party what George W. Bush has done to the GOP."

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Bailout-Bush: "No Bail-Out for Speculators"
So here we go again -- more proof that America has become a land with two sets of rules. One set for "them" and one for the rest of us.

Friday, August 31, 2007
Attack of the Wal-Mart-istas
(7 comments) So when will day arrive when America's once vibrant and hyper-patriotic working class wakes up and realizes they're at the receiving end of one of the greatest screwings in human history?

Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Slip-Sliding Away
(2 comments) Do we let members of the Bush-Cheney mob slip off, one at time, like thieves in the night, to live on as if they'd served their country with honor?

Monday, August 27, 2007
Waiting for Greatness
(1 comments) We live in extraordinary times. That's the bad news. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary leaders, and we have none. That's the really bad news.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Vietnam by Dummies (Prof. G.W. Bush Lecturing)
Oh, the irony of being lectured on "the lessons of Vietnam" by a guy who spent that war hiding out in the Texas Air National Guard, drinking beer and skipping out on monthly drills.

Monday, August 20, 2007
The Day the Economy Went Cold Turkey
(2 comments) The US economy, and much of the world economy entangled with it, was forced to go cold turkey last week. But how'd it get hooked on junk in the first place?

Thursday, August 16, 2007
How Wal-Mart Killed America's Golden Goose
(16 comments) The once vibrant American working class –- the goose that laid generations of golden eggs for America and Americans -- is now under hospice care.

Monday, August 13, 2007
Candidates, Candidates Everywhere
(3 comments) . . . and not a one worthy of my vote!

Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Gunga Din Takes a Vacation
It's 117 degrees in Baghdad and there's no water. It's 117 degrees in Baghdad and there's no water. It's 117 degrees in Baghdad and there's no water.

Monday, July 30, 2007
Lying Under Oath for Dummies
(1 comments) Truth can be a cruel mistress. Sometimes a Lorrena Bobbit kind of cruel mistress. As such truth must be treated with both care and suspicion.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Feeling the Heat, Yet?
(3 comments) Bush & Co. thought they could slip that executive order calling for the freezing of assets of "those who threaten stabilization efforts in Iraq" right by us. Nothing gets by Stephen Pizzo, though.

Friday, July 20, 2007
How's Your Bull**it Detector?
When asked if there were one quality needed, above all others, to be a good writer, Ernest Hemingway replied, "Yes, a built-in, shock-proof, crap detector."

Thursday, July 19, 2007
Reality Check (List)
(4 comments) Terrorists hurt and kill real people somewhere on earth everyday. And killing Americans here is right at the top of their wish list. But before we decide how to respond to that threat, we need to objectively assess just how severe it is.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Of Battered Wives and the US Congress
Democrats worry that impeaching Bush and Cheney would blow back on them in the 2008 elections, by making them appear politically motivated. If they hadn't spent the last six years acting like such a pack of conniving little weasels maybe we'd be less likely to jump such a conclusion.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
One Move and Iraq Gets It!
(6 comments) Let's not be held hostage to baseless concerns about the fate of Iraq if we leave.

Sunday, July 8, 2007
War of the Roses and Its Victims
(1 comments) If American politics were a marriage between the Democratic and Republican parties, it's devolved into what shrinks might describe as a dysfunctional, codependency.

Thursday, July 5, 2007
Waiting for Fitz
(3 comments) Where's the Paris Hilton judge who hit the roof over the LA sheriff's premature release when you really need him? He should be reviewing the Libby commutation.

Monday, July 2, 2007
Reading the Tea Leaves
(1 comments) Hi, Chicken Little here again. But relax. The sky isn't falling -- but it appears to be fixin' to. What makes me think so? Well that commie rag, The Wall Street Journal told me so.

Thursday, June 28, 2007
iPhonies
(4 comments) What do Paris Hilton and the new Apple iPhone have in common?

Sunday, June 24, 2007
Hello, 911? I'd Like to Report a Crime
(7 comments) What's it take to get a guy impeached these days? Seems like the bar has been raised since Clinton.

Friday, June 15, 2007
Immigration for Dummies
(7 comments) No issue pulls hearts and minds -- of both the right and left -- in opposite directions more than immigration.

Thursday, June 14, 2007
Our Desert Dunkirk?
World War III begins.

Thursday, September 28, 2006
(Heart)Breaking News: What a difference a Democrat Senate/House would have made today!
(2 comments) Now your America, the once fabled land of liberty, will not only hold military tribunals, but will be allowed to hold prisoners without the right of Habeas Corpus. In other words, if the government lacks evidence to convict an accused terrorist, they can just keep them locked up -- forever. How sad. No terrorist attack could harm America more than this will.