153 Articles

Saturday, November 21, 2009
The End of an Era?
The portent for our holiday economy is laden with opportunity for even more unemployment, bankruptcies and business failures. Do these in turn portend an end to American consumerism. The answer is not "no"; it is "maybe," and that is good!

Friday, November 20, 2009
Reasons Not to Abandon Afghanistan
While looking for reasons to stay in Afghanistan, it would be beneficial to check out some of the assumptions being bandied about these days.

Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Illusions of Arrogance
Neil Gabler's essay on American exceptionalism is excellent and points out that our hubris will certainly bring us down ... way down. It does not matter, exactly, why this mythos was created, even if for the best of intentions. It is a rope around our necks and we must free ourselves from it.

Friday, November 6, 2009
Talking Our Way Out of the Great Recession
No, we cannot talk our way out of this one, but we do have to know what is going on and why ... and the press sure is not telling us.

Monday, October 5, 2009
Muddling Afghanistan
Finding reasonable and attainable goals for the AfPak war would be difficult enough, but many are playing politics with the issue.

Saturday, September 26, 2009
Left Behind
"Beyond insanity," is what he called it and he was there and knows. The radical fundamentalist apocalypic Armageddon and Rapture waiting fringe is not to be ignored, but the problem is not them. It's Congress, right and left and we have to fix that first.

Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Paranoid Rightwing
(2 comments) Max Blumenthal's "Republican Gomorrah" has some interesting lessons from Hoffer and Fromm. The sociology of the rightwing is born in hopelessnes and paranoia.

Monday, September 7, 2009
The Future Shock of Change
It is obvious that some among us resist Change because of how disconcerting it is. James Carroll of the Boston Globe personifies a "resistor" of the intellectual variety. It is not a pretty sight. Change is inevitable.

Thursday, September 3, 2009
Scaling Back
(2 comments) President Obama's forthcoming address to a joint-session of Congress is too little, too late, and all the more insulting to Liberals and Progressives because he intends to gut the health care reforms, rather than sticking by our guns.

Saturday, August 29, 2009
Now -- Onward!
Liberalism flourishes in America because there are so many liberals, people whose self-discipline gives them an appreciation of the needs and welfare of others. Ted Kennedy's passing is the loss of an exemplar, but because of him liberalism and the progressive spirit are strong.

Sunday, August 23, 2009
Good-Bye America!
(2 comments) The reckless brandishing of words and arms of the far right since before the election is the epitome of irony, but that is lost on people whose lives feel uprooted by massive and accelerating change.

Saturday, August 22, 2009
What a Revolt of the Left Means
(8 comments) Pusillanimous leadership and outright moral and political cowardice characterize the Obama presidency. Liberal Progressives have had it, and the devil take the hindmost!

Thursday, August 6, 2009
The Far Side of Prudence
(5 comments) For all its promise, where change has been necessary, Obama has not changed. He is weak, deluded with a fantasy of inclusiveness, and soon to lose the battle we elected him to win.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Nagasaki
(8 comments) The anniversary week of the atomic bombs over Japanese cities brings out the perennial, James Carroll, in the Boston Globe, and although he is improving, his take is still strongly flavored by latter-day morality and not historical accuracy.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The Misery Curve
As the NYT graph shows, the business cycle spends more time in the red than in the black. The social cost is enormous and, in fact, we do not break even. The business cycle needs immediate and profound repair.

Monday, July 27, 2009
Cancel the "Beer Summit"
Obama should just back out of the "Beer Summit." He and his office will obscure the legal remedies available to Professor Gates. The "teaching moment" is Gates's to pursue ... or not.

Friday, July 24, 2009
On Health Care Reform
(1 comments) David Brooks and Paul Krugman write today in the NYT about health care reform. Both graze the core problem. The problem is that medicine is currently not self-governing, with the AMA and APA having already forfeited their best opportunities for integrity.

Thursday, July 23, 2009
Obama On Health Care Reform
(8 comments) As the New Republic notes, yesterday President Obama spoke to us as if we're adults. It is essential that health care be wrested from the corrupt hands of the insurance industry ... the biggest scam going.

Monday, July 20, 2009
War! ... with Switzerland?
The news about conflicts over Swiss bank secrecy law masks a much more serious problem ... the impending collapse of Europe's banking "system."

Monday, July 13, 2009
The Boiling Frog
(8 comments) Paul Krugman's Boiling Frog column is the tocsin for our survival. We are simply not doing what we must to save our planet or our economy.

Friday, July 10, 2009
All In The Family
Private individual responses to economic stimuli fall nevertheless into patterns that appear to be "quorum sensing" behaviors. Currently the result is that fewer households are being formed and this has negative consequences for the economy ... and for the people around them.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Indistinguishable From Magic
(2 comments) Modernity v. Tradition is a human theme, played out not only in Iran, but in the United States as well.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
What is an Actuary?
The Public Option for Health Care is hanging in the balance. It is time for Americans to step up and let Congress know that they will be thrown out of office if the Health Care Bill does not have a public option.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
California Dreamin'
(1 comments) California's economy is sound, but their property tax law is utter foolishness and must be changed as a condition of the federal government helping out.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
White Water Statecraft
(1 comments) We are on a perilous journey in a partly swamped boat. The pundits continually forget how dangerous and complicated the situation is. We should have more pulling together, don't you think!

Friday, June 5, 2009
So, Grasshopper ...
(12 comments) David Carradine, dead at 72.

Thursday, June 4, 2009
First Decline, Then Fall
(4 comments) It boils down to the nature of representative government. Either we wait until the central government is brought to its knees by unfolding events that it failed to address in a timely and effective way or we teach government how to act for us.

Thursday, May 28, 2009
Holy War
(9 comments) Evangelical Christians have found a goldmine in the armed forces. It is time to understand the peril their beliefs put us in.

Monday, May 18, 2009
Sack Rahm
(21 comments) Every administration makes mistakes. So far the Obama administration's mistakes are beginning to have a "feel," a personality. It is not the personality of Barack Obama. It looks, feels, and smells like Rahm Emanuel.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Afghanistan's McGenerals
(8 comments) The sacking of the commander sends a message down to the troops in the field that this war must be fought against the real enemy of Afghanistan, not against the Afghans themselves.

Thursday, May 7, 2009
The Disaster
(4 comments) The damage done to Wall Street and "bankers row" was so substantial that there was neither time nor prudent necessity to reorganize these sectors first. Reorganization is more than inevitable, but it will not happen until the bilge pumps are all on line, the ship stops sinking, and the passengers are all safe, in or near life-vests and life-boats. Obama's strategy is not only reasonable, but obvious.

Saturday, May 2, 2009
Economy v. Ecology
(8 comments) "Rather than ground the economy in a broad set of social institutions and a broad set of values, we let the market economy become unhinged. And it has become unhinged in a way that has now created a worldwide crisis."

Sunday, April 26, 2009
The Cojones Frame
(1 comments) Long time journalist William Greider has stepped on his shoe-lace with an article about President Obama losing to the "big dogs" on Wall Street.

Friday, April 24, 2009
The Lone Star of the Third World
(4 comments) The Republic of Texas is a historical fact ... historical, not a present day fact, but the Governor of Texas wants to be Sarah Palin's running mate in 2012. Let him!

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
On Being Bad
(2 comments) We are often bad. The problem is that we do not understand how we are bad and what the consequences are. Prejudice, stereotyping, illogical reasoning, demagoguery, and a host of complex factors are currently at play in contemporary society. We need to do something about it.

Thursday, April 16, 2009
Torture and Tortured Reasoning
(4 comments) I do not see how, given the strong case brought in Nuremberg on these grounds that "mere orders or permissions are not exculpatory," that President Obama can justify relieving the CIA of its crimes. It will be seen by many world-wide an act of political cowardice! But there is, perhaps, a supervening context.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Granularity
The consequences of inflation and deflation are different, no matter what you hear from the conservatives.

Friday, April 10, 2009
G.O.P. in Exile?
(3 comments) Fair political reporting is reporting the activities of responsible and rational and civic-minded people who may agree or disagree with one another, not the rants and orations of lunatics who are pretty obviously bent on destruction of our democracy in favor of a republic of hatred and paranoia.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Dark Energy
(4 comments) In Scientific American Magazine this month (April, 2009) there is a very interesting article about whether there really is dark energy in our universe. The article in instructive about paradigms.

Sunday, April 5, 2009
The Oldest Profession
(4 comments) Assertions that "'registered lobbyists' will be deprived of their right to petition their government" are utter and malicious hogwash. Lobbying is destroying our democracy and it must be strictly and completely controlled.

Saturday, April 4, 2009
Fraud ... Rampant, Pervasive Fraud!
(7 comments) In a sense that is probably the most cutting irony in a hundred years, FDR's statement that "we have nothing to fear but fear itself" has now doubled back onto the White House itself where fear has created a public policy, a managerial and class fear that will surely wreak havoc among us and extend this crisis off into the distant future.

Thursday, April 2, 2009
The End of the Marshall Plan
(4 comments) Yesterday, President Obama announced to the world in London that the United States could no longer be expected to be the sole engine of world economics. In untold ways this was a revolutionary statement, the echos of which will be reverberating for decades.

Sunday, March 29, 2009
Tipping Points
(6 comments) There is, even among Progressives, a hesitancy to believe the worst, for if all that is said about big corporations is true, then evolving a solution to the current financial crisis is going to be very tricky, indeed. In fact it will be more than tricky; it will be impossible.

Friday, March 27, 2009
Pavlov's Blue Dog
We are unused to the Barack Obama way, and it shows all over the place in columns, articles, essays, and frantic angst, even here. Obama is missing a key adviser on communications.

Sunday, March 22, 2009
No Mulligans!
(6 comments) We do not want a return to that gilded lie of an economy. We want a new economy with social and economic justice incorporated in every cell and fiber.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Public Flogging
(9 comments) A public flogging might seem appropriate, but it would not serve any progressive purpose. Obama knows what he is doing, and he knows we are not in this mess alone.

Saturday, March 14, 2009
Mimesis on Wall Street
The tipping point between "restoration" and change has not yet been reached. The old order is fighting tooth and nail to stay alive. Only real pain in the economy will disarm them

Saturday, March 14, 2009
There is a Problem at the Post
(2 comments) The Washington Post is off the beaten track and disgracing itself.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tell It Like It Is
(5 comments) If this an L-shaped depression we are entering, all bets are off on how long it will take to recover, and moreover, what emerges on the far side is likely to be as different as 1950 was from 1928.

Monday, March 9, 2009
The Corporate Death Penalty
(7 comments) Big Pharma has gone astray and the lesson has to be a hard one. We must yank the charter of corporations that have a culture of criminal contempt for the welfare of the people.

Saturday, March 7, 2009
Disaster Capitalism
(2 comments) A Post article on bank failures gives the impression that crisis and disaster are just "beginnings." Disaster capitalism is no joke; it is a pernicious ideology that we have to take seriously.

Friday, March 6, 2009
Europe is Failing
(7 comments) The economic news from Europe is not only bad, it is being doctored to seem better than it is.

Monday, March 2, 2009
Nationalize the Banks
(4 comments) The sooner we nationalize the banks the sooner we can denationalize the ones that can survive.

Friday, February 27, 2009
Apocalyptic Republicanism
(4 comments) Contemporary Republicanism only makes rational sense if you posit Palin and a willingness to exploit economic and religious fears.

Saturday, February 21, 2009
Depression Is Inevitable
(4 comments) This is a Capitalist critique. A perfect storm is upon us. The destruction of politics as we know it is but one element of the Change that will occur.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Capitalism, Fascism, and Socialism
(24 comments) An attempt to unpack a very complex subject with an eye to the next paradigm.

Monday, February 16, 2009
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
The Washington Post errs again! A once great newspaper needs to changes its course and get with the program!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The Hundred Year Storm
(5 comments) It ... comes as something of a shock to the country that "once-in-a-generation" and "not-since-the-Great Depression" are now worn out understatements of the mess we are in. The meaning carried on the back of these new dimensions is that we have no experience in modern times dealing with what we have now at hand.

Monday, February 9, 2009
A Note In A Bottle
(8 comments) The Dow Jones Industrial Average will go south of 5,000 and take much we treasure with it. We are reneging on world leadership and the result will be worldwide political problems for generations. One man could be bold and end the foolishness in Washington, but he won't.

Friday, February 6, 2009
Metaphors on Self-Interest
(1 comments) An article in Scientific American leads to possible false conclusions. Traffic control and economic regulation are different things entirely.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Yes, It WAS A Screw-Up and the Lesson Has Not Yet Been Learned
The demise of the Daschle nomination is not only good news, but the opportunity for a good lesson in politics and responsibility. We don't need another hero, we need a really good medical professional and a manager who know something about politics.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Paralysis: An Early Stage of Paradigm Shift
(15 comments) Davos and Belem at opposite ends of the political and economic spectrum arrive at similar conclusions. We should not leap for joy quite yet.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
The Case For Doing Nothing
(3 comments) DoNothing, disaster capitalism is willing to destroy countless millions of human lives to "prove" that FreeMarket capitalism is not a cult. They are utterly wrong, and we absolutely need a new Marshall Plan to recover from a quarter century of their madness.

Monday, January 26, 2009
Understanding Our Crises
(4 comments) Nationalizing the banks is in the wind, and it will certainly happen when things get worse, as they are sure to do as the world economy slows and the domestic economy sputters ineffectually. It is not socialism, and in any case we should not fear it.

Saturday, January 24, 2009
Interlocking Markets and Their Analysts
With apologies to Dr. Freud.

Thursday, January 15, 2009
An Ideology of Audacity
(10 comments) Barack H. Obama is a pragmatist in the best American tradition, but it is a self-conscious pragmatism born of his experience and his view of the world.

Saturday, January 10, 2009
Cascading Failures
(2 comments) Cascading failure within an emergent process is hard to understand and more difficult yet to fix, but fix it we must,and this is not the time for compromise.

Sunday, December 28, 2008
The Meaning of the Mike Connell Story: Under the Bus
(13 comments) The dark side reveals itself. Little people take warning!

Sunday, November 23, 2008
While History Does Not Repeat Itself Economics Seems To
(5 comments) If History does not repeat, and if Economics is at best an inexact science, upon what are we to guide our coming responses to the economic catastrophe? The calculus of Pragmatism requires the solemn practice of Responsibility.

Saturday, November 15, 2008
The Secretary of State
(9 comments) The three top contenders for the Secretary of State each bring unusually valuable and unique strengths to the office. There is one among them that fits best.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Mortgages
Millions of foreclosures is everybody's problem. It has to stop! A mortgage foreclosure holiday is what our economy needs.

Thursday, October 2, 2008
VP Debate: One Gigantic Mistake by Sarah Palin ... Huge!
(12 comments) Biden wins, but Palin comes close, except for one huge, gigantic strategic mistake.

Thursday, September 18, 2008
"Socialized Risk" or Corporatism?
(1 comments) Calling the bailouts "socializing risk" obscures the fact that this is just part of American Corporatism ... aka American Fascism!

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Gorbachev Again With One Side of the Issue
(10 comments) Mikhail Gorbachev's view of the Georgian crisis is incredibly wrongheaded.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
"Wall Street Socialism"
Huffingtons Borosage writes of Wall Stree Socialism, but it's really corporatism at its finest, Benito would be proud!

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Faith-Based Initiatives
(2 comments) Barack Obama's decision to involve faith-based groups' infrastructure and manpower is pure Obama. The most obvious issue is not the main issue.

Sunday, June 29, 2008
Olbermann Talks Back
(5 comments) Olbermann stubbornly refuses to see his mistake as a reporter of news and critic of public figures.

Monday, June 2, 2008
War Crimes
Tom Brokaw thinks that all wars begin with massive feats of propaganda. He only weakly acknowledges that the press must be in cahoots with the war party to pull off the sort of propaganda campaign of which he speaks.

Sunday, May 25, 2008
Jacoby Can't Handle the Truth
(1 comments) Jeff Jacoby of the Globe misses the point again and contributes even more bitter violence into the campaigns.

Sunday, May 11, 2008
Granularity
(2 comments) They say that all politics is local. It's true! It is what we are going to learn how to do ... starting now!

Saturday, May 10, 2008
The Calculus of Confrontation
(2 comments) The Clinton campaign has gone too far. Playing the race card threatens the Party and the November election. The Democratic Primaries have gone on long enough. We have a candidate!

Sunday, April 27, 2008
Geneva Conventions
(1 comments) The U.S. Department of Justice is playing puerile games with the law. Their objective is transparent. They are trying to avoid the deserved prosecution of Bush, Cheney, and others. There is no way, however.

Saturday, April 26, 2008
Moyers on Wright
(11 comments) Moyers 55 minute chat with Jeremiah Wright was not enough. The problem is too deep, the ignorance too trenchant, the myth too addictive.

Monday, April 21, 2008
Greg Palast on Harmonizing with NAFTA (rev.)
(2 comments) Greg Palast uncovers the dirty little secret of NAFTA and Bush.

Sunday, April 13, 2008
Obama and The Bitterness in America
(5 comments) Like it or not Barack Obama has tapped into the motherlode of American discontent, and he should use it, not apologize for it.

Friday, April 4, 2008
An Open Letter to University of California at Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Bergeneau
(11 comments) In Re John Yoo

Monday, March 31, 2008
Paulson and the Regulators
(2 comments) Treasury Secretary Paulson ideas for regulating Wall Street are very much a free-marketer joke.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
An Open Letter to Clinton Fans
(6 comments) The Clinton Campaign is based on carefully cultured illusions, the most damning of which is that the Clintons are far outside the traditions and beliefs of the Democratic Party.

Monday, March 10, 2008
The Fairness Doctrine, Truth, and Respect for Evidence
(3 comments) OpEdNews should be for evidence and fact based opinion. The real fairness doctrine says that if 60% of the people are for Obama, that's the way it is.

Thursday, March 6, 2008
An Open Letter to Al Gore, John Edwards, and Bill Richardson
(4 comments) A majority of the Democratic Party rank and file believe that it is time to "get on with it."

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Working With Obama
(5 comments) Some advice for Hillary and Barack and the media, including us.

Monday, February 11, 2008
David Shuster and the Pimps of Chelsea
(10 comments)

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Misogyny and Racism in America: Is it Lethal for Politics?
Race and gender prejudice in America are not fads or lightly held opinions; they are part of the fabric of the nation and arguing otherwise is disingenuous and perhaps a fatal political mistake. Arguing it poorly is even worse, but Slate magazine has done so.

Saturday, January 5, 2008
"Conventional Wisdom"
(3 comments) There is no question that the news media in this country have gone astray. Some of the problem is that we are living in one epoch after another of rapid, disorienting change, and we need help figuring out how to land on our feet, but we are too gullible and insufficiently vigilant. Corporate media want to turn the coming election to their own purposes and even the "trusted voices" are looking suspect.

Sunday, December 9, 2007
Review: The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass is a good fun movie, inventive, exciting, "Brytish" and therefore akin to Harry Potter, so when Roman Catholics complain they are proving the point.

Thursday, December 6, 2007
The Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Sitting quietly at home wondering whether it is useful to call Bush and Cheney liars one more time ... and basically saying to myself that everyone knows and no one cares ... when all of a sudden some bastard in Omaha guns down a bunch of people to "go out in style." I could not help thinking of Cheney and Bush going out in style. It raises many questions, but there are better ways to spend a pre-holiday Thursday.

Sunday, November 18, 2007
Governor Rick Perry and Barry Bonds
What's the difference between injecting anabolic steroids and injecting a $1,000,000 worth of illegal campaign funds? Governor Rick Perry will soon find out.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Farewell Al Gore
(3 comments) Al Gore's decision to shut down the draft Gore movement signals the end of Al Gore as a viable prospect for public office in our country. It is a shame that he cannot muster the energy and courage to take on this campaign, but we will survive!

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Putinshchina
What Russian President Vladimir Putin will do when he reaches the constitutional limit on his presidency is not just anyone's guess. The guess by Leon Aron in the 10/25 edition of the NYT is not satisfying nor does it seem to understand the basic situation in Russia.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Capitalism and Its Discontents
(1 comments) The alarm over the trouble in the economy both points to and obscures the reality that "free-market capitalism" has become "corporatist military capitalism." It is literally out of control, and the prognosis for restoring democracy is not good.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Health Care
Basic Health Care for all is a national necessity and transcends the question of socialism as does a national defense.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Mother Jones Bares Hillary Clinton's Cross
(2 comments) A MJ article reveals the secret religious side of Hillary. For me her candidacy is now completely unacceptable and, if she gets the nomination, I will vote Green.

Monday, September 17, 2007
The Bush Legacy
(2 comments) Bush wants his legacy to include a neutralization of Iran. The question is whether this is warranted and whether we can stop Bush if it is not.

Monday, August 27, 2007
Gonzo Gone
Gonzales departure makes impeachment of him and Cheney and Bush all the more difficult. It sets up an interesting situation in the White House, where the absence of Rove and Gonzales is irrelevant to the long-hatching plan to transmute the unsatisfactory situation in Iraq into a hot war with Iran.

Sunday, August 12, 2007
The Guns of August
The long hot summer is a time for letting down one's guard and getting some well-deserved relaxation. Sorry, Cheney and Bush are not going to let you relax, or if you do, there is a strong likelihood that you will regret it. Think of the I-words.

Sunday, August 5, 2007
Bomb Them Into Submission
(9 comments) There is a framing and emotion of conservative frustration, and it is a golden opportunity for liberals to turn the tide of debate and win votes.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Gonzales the Liar
(3 comments) Gonzales is Pelosi's last chance to vindicate her Speakership. If she fails to act Constitutionally, she must be turned out of office. Californians understand the process of RECALL.

Friday, July 20, 2007
Stonewalling Plame
(3 comments) Federal Judge Bates erred and erred grievously--criminally--in his decision to dismiss the Valerie Plame lawsuit against Cheney et al.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
National Intelligence Estimate
(5 comments) The NIE is first and foremost a political document designed to frighten Congress and Congress's constituents into prolonging a disasterous war in Iraq.

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Voting and Democracy
(2 comments) A New Yorker article raises serious questions about the electorate for which superficial answers are probably as dangerous as the appalling lack of understanding observed among the voters. Education and media are the keys, and both are broken.

Monday, July 9, 2007
Speaker Pelosi, You Are Part of the Problem
(6 comments) Speaker Pelosi has but a few days in which to reverse her illegal and unconstitutional act. It is not her Constitution to interpret. It is OURS and impeachment is OUR remedy for an Executive gone over the edge into lying, law breaking, and massive obstruction of justice!

Sunday, July 1, 2007
Obama and Impeachment
(15 comments) Barack Obama misspoke against impeachment. His duty as a Senator is to be an unprejudiced juror. Impeachment itself is up to the House of Representatives.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Cheney and Cheneyism
(4 comments) Cheney is just the darkest of his kind.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Brontosaurus Democraticus
The Democratic Party is a coalition, not a collection of old bones, some belonging to other beasts, some invented to fill an imagined role. It is a time for courage of our convictions, a call to progressive liberalism and our best ideals.

Friday, June 1, 2007
Greek Chorus
The ancient Greeks and Romans have much to teach us, but there is much in their history to be ignored. We have over two bloody millennia of progress to protect, and protect it we must. Yes, the battle is between Empire and Republic, but History only repeats itself in classrooms. In the real world we take responsibility for it.

Friday, May 11, 2007
The Retrovirus
The Rove Project for a Republican 21st Century, like HIV and other retroviruses, would kill our democracy.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007
The End of the World
(2 comments) Bush's veto is the last straw. His delusions about this war now border on insanity and he must be removed from office before he does any more damage. The issue is the Constitution and our way of life. Civilian control of over the military is our tradition and belief. Americans have expressed their opinion, and Bush and Cheney's disdaining of our wish to be done with Iraq is unacceptable! They must be removed now!

Friday, April 13, 2007
Congress Must Fix DoJ
(1 comments) The ever-expanding problems of the U.S. Department of Justice, including the FBI, and including contamination of local police, clearly require immediate attention and a permanent fix. Gonzo must go and the sooner the better. Democrats have no excuse in this matter for inaction.

Friday, April 6, 2007
Contempt
(3 comments) Cheney and Bush and their enablers and underlings are contemptuous of our traditional American institutions of government. Should we report their activities as if they were following the rules and honoring their oaths of office, or should we be done with this charade and toss this sorry lot into the dustbin of history? It's a no-brainer!

Friday, March 30, 2007
Beginning of the End Game
(4 comments) Bush's fragile psyche is showing. His bearing is cracking and his speech impediments are back. He is all alone and, given his born-again self-righteousness, he is very, very dangerous.

Friday, March 23, 2007
Playing With War
The Democrats are playing with war for political gain. This is going to bite them on their backside in 2008. We told them to have courage in the last election and they have demonstrated the opposite!

Friday, March 9, 2007
Princess of the Flies
Ann Coulter is only half the problem. The other half is her audience, a willing Republican Party, harboring fear and hatred.

Friday, March 2, 2007
Phoney War
A nuclear attack on Iran is optional. It is not inevitable. It is within the power and responsibility of the Congress to see to it that it never happens.

Monday, February 19, 2007
Human Nature
(1 comments) The Conservative view of "human nature" is based in a negative view of life. Columnist David Brooks does not understand the implications of science and misjudges the fate of New Society programs. Human beings are not one thing or the other, but in fact a mix of competitiveness and compassion.

Friday, February 9, 2007
The Rule of Law (and the DCCC)
(6 comments) The Constitution is not optional. It is based on the Rule of Law and that means individuals must bow to the imperatives written into the text of the document. This includes Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House. Let's send her a message about Impeachment!

Friday, February 2, 2007
Market Fundamentalism
(2 comments) The irrational belief in markets as the cure all for our civilization is now beginning to infect the Democratic Party as Libertarians gravitate away from religious fundamentalists and neocon radicalism, but bringing their dogmatic "market fundamentalism" with them.

Friday, January 26, 2007
The Purple Testament of Bleeding War
The war aims of Bush and Cheney were revealed by Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.)this week. Did you notice? This Neocon nightmare will continue until someone notices that Bush and Cheney cannot be trusted to carry out the national security interests of our country.

Friday, January 12, 2007
Persistence is Futile
(3 comments) Bush is not the Borg, nor is his psychology relevant. He is not alone. He is supported by millions. We have to stop analyzing George and begin removing him from office.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
20,000 Troops and the Speech
(1 comments) Bush's Speech Wednesday evening was a remarkable retreat, admitting mistakes, he may have pulled his thumb from the dike. His new strategy is to find others to blame.

Friday, January 5, 2007
Branches of Republicanism
Democrats should understand that Republicans are a house divided, a coalition perhaps more diverse than the Democratic coalition, a party of seething discontent.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Horsefeathers!
And I'm not talking about Pegasus! The Washington Post is doing its best to guide the Democrats, but Liberals and Progressives deserve better advice than we're getting.

Friday, December 22, 2006
Free Trade is Not Free!
(6 comments) It is time to rethink our global position and the assumptions upon which the impending economic catastrophe is predicated. The first step is to abandon Clintonism.

Friday, December 15, 2006
A Bad Week
As politicians scurry for cover, hoping the winds of war will cover their tracks, the problem of disengagement is complicated by the fact that the public does not really know why we are in Iraq.

Friday, December 8, 2006
Political Syncretism
(1 comments) Right now there are wars going on within the two major parties for hegemony. Everyone and her brother are fighting for control of the Democratic party or at least a seat at the table. A good understanding of ideology will win out.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Libertarian Democrats?
(7 comments) A major battle for the soul of the Democratic Party has begun in earnest. As the candidates assemble you will see some strange hybrids, but the idea of Libertarian Democrats defies all logic and common sense.

Friday, December 1, 2006
The Iraq Civil War: A Neocon Surprise
Ask yourself, What is the mission that Bush keeps referring to? The mission is the Neocon plan to remodel the middle east, nothing less.

Friday, November 17, 2006
A Bridge Too Far?
(1 comments) "Off the Table" does not mean "out of sight." Nancy Pelosi knows what she is doing. The next months could be very, very interesting

Friday, November 10, 2006
What a Democrat Is
(1 comments) The new array of Democrats in Congress suggests the need for a new definition of the Party. Progressives and Liberals must devise a plan of action that understands the new environment.

Saturday, November 4, 2006
What's at Stake
Next week's election can be the beginning of a solution to impending climate change and tragedy for the human species. If the election goes badly, you can expect rampant corporatism to soon extinguish the last rays of hope.

Friday, November 3, 2006
Boiled Down It Comes to This
(1 comments) Voters should have made up their minds by now. The reasons to vote for Democrats are obvious, but some voters might need a mantra to get them past all the confusion that will surely be thrown their way. Republican election fraud we will deal with afterward, but now it is important to cast those votes!

Friday, October 27, 2006
Changing Course
(2 comments) Our poorly prepared President is incapable of making rational course corrections. The errors are piling up to mythical proportions. We are headed for an epic disaster.

Friday, October 20, 2006
Faith, Relativism, and Liberalism
(15 comments) The philosophical underpinnings of political thought are opaque most of the time. Currently some of these are threadbare. Liberals and Progressives should understand that bad premises lead to incoherent politics.

Monday, October 16, 2006
People
(1 comments) Three hundred million Americans! It is a big number and the consequences may be more than our present culture can deal with. Already there are signs.

Friday, September 15, 2006
Terrorism and Islam and Our Response
(9 comments) Islam is a major world religion and should not be maligned for harboring violent malcontents by a culture full of them. There is another way to fight terrorist than by warfare. We should try it.

Monday, August 21, 2006
The Ceremony of Innocence
Bloggists and pundits are being crushed in an avalanche of lies and fabrications. It is fraudulent to accept a lie to promote a smaller truth.

Sunday, June 4, 2006
Garcetti v. Ceballos; Alito Kills Whistleblowing
In Garcetti v. Ceballos the Supreme Court has summarily removed the First Amendment from public employees rights. It is another appalling nail in the coffin of democracy and justice! That 50 cycle hum you hear in the background is the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.

Saturday, May 27, 2006
Narcissism, Corruption & Politics
Eventually we discover that the handmaidens of narcissism are corruption and intolerance.

Sunday, May 21, 2006
Nancy Pelosi
(9 comments) The Minority Leader knows perfectly well what she is doing.

Saturday, May 13, 2006
Communicating Liberalism
Frustrated ranting is no cure for corruption.

Sunday, May 7, 2006
Compromise and Coöptation
The middle ground between Corporatism and incipient Fascism on the one hand and Socialism on the other was Liberalism, but it was coopted and the result is our present Plutocracy.

Sunday, April 23, 2006
Corruption
Someone said "corruption is an equal opportunity employer" and, although this is probably true, we must not lose hope. Our Republic was founded on the notion that human beings are fallible. We must keep faith with the entailment of that idea. ...There is nothing at stake but our democracy, for there is no question that Republicans are little interested in it.

Friday, April 14, 2006
Nuclear Weapons Don't Work For Or Against Iran
Nuclear war with Iran is unthinkable, unless you are hoping to shore up the fortunes of a discredited regime-- in Iran and the US.

Saturday, March 25, 2006
"... And the Wisdom to Know the Difference"
(1 comments) American politics is dominated by unexamined assumptions and myths. The pervasive lack of critical thinking skills perpetuates this problem. The ideas of "American world hegemony" and "market fundamentalism" are now joined in what will turn out to be a catastrophe of epic proportions.