48 Articles

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
A Progressive in Florida is running TODAY
(3 comments) A progressive is running in Florida

Monday, November 2, 2009
My Personal Offer to the Financial Robbers: Prepaid Banishment
(2 comments) I will personally pay for a one-way flight to anywhere in the world for anyone who made at least $100 million in the financial industry last year - first come, first serve - IF they will will sign an agreement promising never to return to America, or to work for an American headquartered company, ever again. I will even pay First Class, because you know, such Titans can't be expected to fly in a manner they aren't accustomed

Monday, October 19, 2009
A Balanced View of Global Warming
(3 comments) There's been a shift in Global Warming from denial being the mainstream view, to acceptance being mainstream, and denialists finding themselves suddenly as the minority gadflies looking in. Both extremes are probably wrong.

Friday, October 16, 2009
How now, DOW? The true meaning of DOW 10,000 - again.
(2 comments) The DOW hovering around 10,000 again is nothing to get excited about - unlike 10 1/2 years ago. Here's a realistic look at what's changed, mostly for the worse.

Saturday, October 10, 2009
A Georgist Review of Michael Moore's “Capitalism: A Love Story”
(14 comments) Moore is at his muckraking best again in “Capitalism: A Love Story,” a series of selective (to be fair, there's a lot to select from) jabs at what he calls Capitalism. This time, however, his target is so big – bigger than even the health care industry in his last, and better-focused opus, “Sicko” – that he misses the target at times.

Sunday, October 4, 2009
Making our own money: Returning to the constitution
(4 comments) It will be interesting to see what finally happens when the U.S. - the largest member nation of the IMF - defaults on its loans, or else tries to inflate and devalue the dollar enough to repay them. The ways to end this debt-cycle - which only serves the holders and sellers of the debt, the banks - however, are clear.

Monday, September 28, 2009
Clearing the Air: Support the Carbon Tax Bill HR 1337, not Cap and Trade Bill 2454
(1 comments) If you are concerned about Global Warming, AND want a bill that can actually pass the Senate, & is not regressive, you should support HR 1337, which taxes polluters directly for their carbon emissions. The alternative currently favored by the Administration, Cap and Trade HR 2454, would issue permits to companies in a complicated exchange scheme whereby they would get some permits for free to continue polluting.

Thursday, September 24, 2009
Are You a Progressive or a Conservative? Are You Sure?
(12 comments) Take the test to see whether you are what you think you are, then give it to a friend of the opposite persuasion. You may find you agree on more than you thought.

Monday, September 21, 2009
Bike Ride to Close the Greenway Gap in NYC Sunday 9/27 at 9:00am!
The Vanderbilt YMCA's America On The Move initiative and Transportation Alternatives' East Side Committee would like to invite you to a Close the Gaps in the East Side Greenway bicycle ride. The ride will take place on Sunday, September 27, 2009.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
We Get the Government we deserve - NO, We DON'T!
(10 comments) I strongly reject the statement that we "get the laws and government we deserve." This is the same radical-right blame-the-victim mentality that allows people who simply work hard and buy into the American dream to be trampled and then left shaking their heads wondering where they went wrong.

Thursday, September 10, 2009
Obama's Health Plan summarized - should you support it?
(11 comments) Points of the President's plan are laid out here, in his post-speech request to support it. Will you support this plan?

Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Health Insurance: Pay Up or We'll Make You Sick
(3 comments) Instead of fixing healthcare, Congress is proposing to put the fix on the poor taxpayer by fining him/her for not taking out healthcare. That's like fining someone for being the victim of a crime.

Friday, August 28, 2009
Space Dreams: Keeping America from being Grounded and outa Space
(9 comments) It's time to refocus the Space Station and Space Shuttle on a new mission, one that will reach for the planets, and beyond. A mission that will boldly go where no one has gone before, and that will be achievable in 10 years, inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers, and still be relatively inexpensive.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009
FLAME Hotline: Sweden's blood libel accusation represents a new low, even by European standards
(5 comments) Yesterday, I quicklinked several, frankly, anti-Zionist articles. In the interest of fair response, I am copying a rejoinder of sorts, from FLAME (Facts and Logic About the Middle East). There are enough out-of-balance sites on this issue already.

Monday, August 24, 2009
Senator Gillibrand's Position on Health Care for all
(3 comments) Today, I received this email form my Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, of New York. The Senator is pushing for a Medicare type insurance for all, mirroring what a lot of Progressives, including those here on OEN, are asking for (see my article: How to fix Scarecare). Those of you who believe this is the solution, should sign her petition.

Saturday, August 22, 2009
How to fix Scarecare
(10 comments) What is really behind the fear-mongering blocking healthcare reform. It is not cost, Death Panels, or any of the other straw-men. It is ideology.

Thursday, August 20, 2009
A modest proposal for the settlements on the Israeli West Bank
(5 comments) Israel, whether it chooses to acknowledge it or not (or we do), is heading toward a one-state solution. Here's an alternative that no one has proposed, which will end the bloodshed and produce positive change for both sides, and for the world.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
How to Fight Like a Republican and Win like a Progressive
(2 comments) The President needs to take off the gloves, fight back, name names, draw lines in the sand with the VETO, and stop being so damned rational. If he loses this health care debate, he will lose his base, which is all the opposition cares about.

Monday, August 10, 2009
Live Global Oil Consumption/CO2 Emissions Clocks
From looking at the price of oil, you might think consumption varies all over the place. It doesn't. Eliminate the speculators from the picture with these consistent Oil and CO2 clocks.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Exposing the Fiction of Low Tax States
Governor Rick Perry of Texas seriously misleads the public with his editorial as to why his state is able to balance its budget and high-income tax states like California and New York State are not. Hint, it's not just about the oil in Texas.

Sunday, August 2, 2009
Why God Condones Torture
(16 comments) God supports the policies of the state. Isn't that a divine coincidence? Why torture is practiced has nothing to do with its effectiveness and more to do with fear of Hell on Earth.

Friday, July 31, 2009
The end of the Bubble Economy
(2 comments) Modern day capitalists, and other uniformed apologists for the Bubble economy will say there is no other way if we are to have progress and growth, but to put up with booms and busts, aka "The Business Cycle." This is wrong, wrong, wrong. There is another way and it's been known for 130 years. You can have both Progress and Social Justice without compromising either. There IS a free lunch.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Healthcare Reform is dead: So Says Wall Street
(1 comments) To pay for Healthcare, you'd better invest in the stock market. All other options are "off the table," says the charts and Reuters.

Thursday, July 9, 2009
Senator Gillibrand moves forward on White-Nose Syndrome in Bats
(2 comments) A previously undescribed, cold-loving fungus has been linked to white-nose syndrome, a condition associated with the deaths of over 100,000 hibernating bats in the northeastern United States. "Bats are also critically important pollinators. Without immediate action, several bat species within the United States may face extinction" - Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Monday, July 6, 2009
Comprehensive Health Care for Every American is possible without Raising Costs
(11 comments) It is possible to create a reformed health care system that is better, covers everyone, and doesn't cost more. Here's the step-by-step way, in broad strokes.

Saturday, July 4, 2009
Petition to Help the Terminator save California
(1 comments) To balance its budget, fund its obligations and keep from having to raise taxes, California should follow the model of North Dakota and Charter its own state bank. Sign the Petition to Save California!

Thursday, July 2, 2009
How the Terminator Can Save the World
(19 comments) California has the 12th largest economy in the world - bigger than all the BRIC economies except China. It's not only true that "As goes California, so goes the nation," it would not be hyperbole to say that, "...so goes the world, too." A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Here's how Arnold could Save the World.

Monday, June 29, 2009
Geonomics and the true cost of poverty
(7 comments) The real reason for poverty has nothing to do with labor, or even with (true) capitalists, it has to do with monopolists. This was recognized in 1879, by political philosopher Henry George. An updated form, Geonomics, provides the way out of our mess - before it is too late.

Monday, June 29, 2009
Geonomics: what ever happened to the movement Henry George started?
The good news: Georgism, under the new name of Geonomics, lives on, through schools, writings, and promoters. The bad news, George's old enemies have corrupted economics to the point where people don't even agree on the terms with which to have a debate.

Sunday, June 28, 2009
Senator Gillibrand's position on Healthcare for all
(1 comments) Senator Gillibrand's position on Healthcare for all, expressed in an email to me and other supporters of Single Payer healthcare.

Sunday, June 28, 2009
A new form of Capitalism: Geonomics
(8 comments) Let's make a deal with all the fossil fuel companies, CAFOs, mining companies, and all other resource-intensive industries. We'll untax their profits IF they agree to pay true costs for resources (which, rightfully, really belong to all of us; Exxon didn't make the oil in the ground, did it?), as well as pollution, land use and whatever else they don't actually produce, but merely take from nature.

Saturday, June 27, 2009
Close the Greenway Gap in East Side Manhattan
Nine Bicyclists have been killed in East Midtown from 1995-2007 and hundreds injured. Every day, hundreds of bikers have to use heavily congested First and Second Avenues in competition with trucks, buses, taxis, cars, road construction, 3 major exits/entrances to the FDR, hills, and even other bikers, when just a couple of blocks to the east sits the unfinished Greenway that serves as a highway for bikers around Manhattan.

Thursday, June 18, 2009
Obama's Financial Reforms are Tepid, At Best
(1 comments) Why Obama's financial reforms won't work; they don't go far enough to solve the financial mess. The true solutions and doubts about the Administration's resolve to effect them.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Why I Am Pro Roe V. Wade
(1 comments) Is a reasonable compromise between pro-life and pro-choice possible? A scientific and logical look at the issues, and at the foundation of the abortion debate: Roe V. Wade.

Saturday, May 16, 2009
The Myth of Personal Frugality
(2 comments) Why personal frugality is just a smokescreen to coverup the real economic crisis - the problem - the REAL solution, granted by the Constitution and practiced by Lincoln.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Community Board Meeting over Drilling the Marcellus Shale for NG
To drill or not to drill, that is the question for the Marcellus Shale region that contains more natural gas than anywhere else in the country. NY City's drinking water also comes from the same region - Community Board's are concerned. My eyewitness account.

Friday, April 10, 2009
The Top Ten Reasons for Energy Independence
(15 comments) People who continue butting heads with Climate Change deniers are wasting their time. Here's a better way to affect change.

Saturday, March 28, 2009
A new form of capitalism is needed: Geonomics
A new form of capitalism that preserves incentives while promoting progressive ideals. Also, solving the derivative based crisis. Obama/Geithner are talking reform; here's how to make it work.

Sunday, February 15, 2009
Saving the Economy Without Spending a Dime
Think things are bad in the economy now? Wait until the half quadrillion dollar derivatives crisis hits. Herein a solution that is fair and won't cost taxpayers a dime.

Friday, February 13, 2009
Ending the War in Afghanistan on Our Own Terms
We should NOT be trying to lead Afghanistan out of its mess by military means. Afghanistan is unconquerable, as everyone from Alexander The Great to the ex-Soviet Union has discovered. In part this is because there is no real country to begin with. Here is a way to build Afghanistan from the ground up, and oust the Taliban for good.

Thursday, February 12, 2009
Ending the Conflict with Iran so Everyone Wins
(47 comments) Think solving the conflict with Iran is impossible, or that it can only result in military action? No, there is a solution whereby everyone can get what they want. read on...

Saturday, February 7, 2009
Even Dick can be right once in a while
(11 comments) Dick Cheney may be right about the next attack, but not for the reasons he thinks. Why peace may mean more violence.

Thursday, February 5, 2009
High pay equals low performance
Not only are CEOs overpaid, they actually perform WORSE for their companies than more moderately paid CEOs. Read the studies and don't let the Right-wing ideologues convince you they can't get talent for less. What they can't get is short-term thinkers who run their companies into the ground.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Single Tax, True Remedy to Inequity to Boom/Bust Cycle
The answer to the 18-year cycle of economic booms and busts for the last 1,000 years was discovered in the 19th century. Now is the time to finally enact it everywhere.

Thursday, January 29, 2009
Where the Next 2 Trillion is Going to
(9 comments) Open your wallets and purses - the bankers need another 1-2 trillion. There's no time to waste; Obama could propose this as early as next week to prop up the insolvent banking system.

Thursday, January 8, 2009
Redrawing the Lines in the Sand: a new Approach to solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict
(14 comments) Old measures won't stop the Gaza-Israel violence. Here's a new approach for the open-minded.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Selecting the Auto Companies to assist
(2 comments) Not all of the big three car companies should be treated the same when it comes to loans.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008
How voting ought to be: My 15 minute non-ordeal
How to make voting simple, fast and efficient. Hint: it doesn't take computers or gobs of money.