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Author of the forthcoming novel "Pursuits of Happiness," a director of the Public Banking Institute and chairman of the Pennsylvania Project. Mike is an international transportation and logisics executive with broad experience in U.S. government and politics. Mike has lived in the first world and the third world, traveled widely and done business on five continents.
Sunday, April 7, 2013 American Apartheid
Getting out of the trap the banskters have sprung
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 Privatization Part I (10 comments)
First in a series on privatization
Monday, February 4, 2013 Signs of intelligent life (1 comments)
Can MoveOn and the Tea Party find common ground. Yes !!
Friday, January 11, 2013 Public Banks: helping workers by helping people (18 comments)
Unions can use their pension funds to support broad economic development and jobs creation, and begin to rebuild political power.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 Pennsylvania: broke, unless you count the $91 billion (2 comments)
For almost four years, the administration and Congress have showered money, protection and even praise on those who caused an economic catastrophe that still rolls across America like a slow motion tidal wave. It is crystal clear who Washington represents, and what the American people can expect from the next administration and Congress -- more of the same, rhetoric and excuses
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 What About Where You Live? Privatizing Our Heritage (3 comments)
In Pennsylvania, transferring the assets of the states to private hands is a very bad precedent. Lock them up in a state bank and put them to use for all the people.
Saturday, June 13, 2009 Political Courage and Better Health Care (5 comments)
"If this initiative actually has teeth and bites, it will be the first real sign that the president has the kind of political courage it will take to begin to rebuild the battered prosperity and shattered confidence of the American people."
Thursday, May 28, 2009 The Axis of Middle Class Misfortune (1 comments)
After rising in every decade and every generation since the 1830s, and creating the surplus and investment which sustained the creation of a vast and prosperous middle class, wages began to fall in the U.S. in the mid 1970s. hey are falling now at the fastest rate in fourteen yeas, with no end in sight.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Life Guard in Chief (1 comments)
The president has some choices to make.
Saturday, August 23, 2008 Lou Dobbs: Overpopulation threatens all that makes America great (6 comments)
"I confess, there are days when I wake up and expect to read the news that the Statue of Liberty has come down from her honored place in America and, for shame, has swum back to France.
Thursday, August 7, 2008 Obama Stalls (1 comments)
Barack Obama is destroying his own message, the one that first resonates with the American people.
Saturday, March 22, 2008 Obama's Pastor and the Democrats' Uncivil War (3 comments)
If Senator Clinton triumphs on the race issue, African Americans will never forgive her...Clinton's only hope will be to keep playng the race card to woo (them) back, thinking they are so easily manipulated that she will get to have it both ways in the time between the convention and the general election. The cynicim is breathtaking.
Monday, February 25, 2008 Obama vs McCain (1 comments)
Assuming Obama secures the Democratic nomination, how might he fare against McCain? The odds are fifty-fifty, at best. In fact, it looks like a fairly standard Democrat/Republican contest.
Obama supporters who think his victory over Clinton, if it comes, has laid the experience issue to rest need to think again.
There is one important wild card to be played that makes an Obama/McCain contest highly problematic: race.
Thursday, February 14, 2008 U.S. Politics: A New Center of Gravity
There is a sea change coming in the United States. It will swamp some boats and lift others. The young voters whom Senator Obama is ushering into the political process could well combine with the moderate Republicans and independents gravitating to John McCain to create a new political center of gravity.
Thursday, February 7, 2008 Memo to the Obama Campaign (1 comments)
Hillary Clinton has a problem. The primary election cycle was supposed to be a coronation march, with lots of money in the bank to secure the realm against the Republican pretender. Instead, it has turned into a civil war with a determined and resourceful foe and has left the royal treasury bare.
Yesterday, Hilary loaned her campaign $5 million.
