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Doug Rogers is a composer and playwright and for many years designed ladies' sweaters. He is now a student again at Empire State College in Buffalo NY.
(14 comments) SHARE Friday, February 6, 2009 Is Zionism the New N-word?
Let's have a conversation about the limits of OpEd's "think twice" automatic message system.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, December 22, 2008 Healthcare Reform and State and Local Budgets
The only relief for our municipal governments and school systems in the midst of the economic downturn will come from single payer healthcare reform.
SHARE Thursday, December 11, 2008 Socialism We Can Believe In
A society and an economy should be viewed as a unified whole in which every part has to thrive for the whole to be strong. Socialism then becomes not something that is imposed on a society but rather a condition that always exists; it is either acknowledged or not.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 3, 2008 Groupthink Unchained
(A national security meeting some time in 2009)
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 26, 2008 The Silent Minority
They don't call it agitation for nothing.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, November 7, 2008 The Analysis You're Not Going to See
The two groups of unequivocal losers in this new equation of power are social conservatives and progressives.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 1, 2008 Why Are We Confused about Healthcare?
The serious difference between Healthcare Now and Health Care for Americans Now, besides two words.
(16 comments) SHARE Monday, October 27, 2008 The Progressive Mandate
Anyone with the presence of mind to be aware of the inherent paradox of electing an unreformed Democratic party to power, should in all conscience be willing to put themselves on the line.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 11, 2008 Get Ready America, for President Ralph Nader
Americans, like a former hostage with Stockholm syndrome or freed slaves unwilling to leave the plantation, are unlikely to make the conceptual leap to selecting someone outside of the safe choices of Republicans and Democrats no matter how culpable they are in wrecking the country.
SHARE Friday, October 3, 2008 After the Deluge
The actions this week of the Democrats in congress, have just put a nail in the coffin of any lingering misapprehension about what they will accomplish in their term. There will be no universal healthcare. There will be no relief for homeowners. There will be no money to improve our infrastructure. No transition to clean energy. There will be no money for anything.
SHARE Monday, September 29, 2008 How the New Deal Was Dealt, Part II
I have looked back at the moment in history when progressives were in power and fundamental change took place. What were the elements that allowed this to happen? Are any of these elements in place today?
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 20, 2008 How the New Deal Was Dealt, Part I
Concentration of power is the backbone of corporate control of our society. The rationale for finally confronting this slippery eel is staring us right in the face.