Monday, October 31, 2011 Peaceful Reform Or Violent Revolution? (3 comments)
The upper 1% of the population in the United States has gradually but inexorably destroyed democracy and taken control of the country. Call it plutocracy. Call it corporate fascism. Call it whatever you want. But it's the same old story of the rich and powerful becoming a little too greedy and wanting it all.
Saturday, March 5, 2011 Balance the Budget by Taxing Billionaires? God Forbid!! (4 comments)
Recently, I did the unthinkable! At a town hall meeting in Sacramento hosted by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, I proposed an easy way to balance the $26 billion California budget deficit without raising taxes on average citizens and without making any budget cuts.
Sunday, May 2, 2010 Free Market Elitists Gone Wild!! (3 comments)
With a financial system as unfair and corrupt as ours, and, until recently, with a populace as deluded about the benefits of capitalism as ours, is it any wonder that free market elitists have gone wild and feel entitled to glom billions of dollars while millions are broke and out of work?
Monday, January 4, 2010 George Carlin's Last Standup (3 comments)
Book review of George Carlin's posthumous memoir, Last Words.
Friday, December 4, 2009 So Far President Obama Offers Little Change and Even Less Hope (3 comments)
If you compare Obama now to what people expected of him during the presidential election, he not only comes up short, but he's quickly becoming a major disappointment to the millions of Americans who voted for him. Can he redeem himself?
Monday, September 7, 2009 Obama Will Waste Billions To Fight Unwinnable Wars With Taliban and Al Qaeda (2 comments)
Granted, George W. Bush got us into the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan, but instead of getting us out as quickly as possible, Obama is following the same prescription for Afghanistan as Bush did in Iraq, i.e., more troops, more commitment, and more dissembling language about “winning.”
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Will Barack Obama Confront Corporate-Criminal Complex? (2 comments)
So far, President Obama has called on Congress to pass tough new regulations on financial institutions and corporations, but will they go far enough? And will he be able to stand up to the individuals that helped him get elected, including executives at Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse, and Goldman Sachs (his number one donor).
Saturday, December 6, 2008 Time to Tax Super Rich and Corporations at 1950s Levels (2 comments)
Since the 1950s, the US has gone from having a very progressive tax system designed to spread the wealth to average Americans to a system that rewards the wealthiest, most well-connected investors and the largest, most powerful corporations.
Saturday, November 1, 2008 Will Barack Obama Be More Like FDR or Bill Clinton? (1 comments)
If Obama and a Democratically controlled Congress do not deliver on a liberal/progressive agenda in the next four years, there will be hell to pay!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Didn't John McCain or Sarah Palin Learn Anything from The Vietnam Experience? (1 comments)
"Like a lot of Vietnam veterans, I believed and still believe that the war was winnable," McCain has told audiences over the years. He feels the same way about Iraq-- and so does Sarah Palin. Two pea brains in a pod!
Monday, June 2, 2008 Who Will Try George W. Bush for Murder after He Leaves the White House? (16 comments)
Vincent Bugliosi, the L.A. district attorney who became famous for successfully trying Charles Manson for murder and subsequently writing the best-seller, Helter Skelter, has written an explosive new book that not only lights a fuse under our criminal justice system but challenges the next attorney general of the United States to blow the Bush administration to smithereens.
Friday, May 2, 2008 Economic Collapse, Huge Disparity of Wealth: Logical Outcome of the Free Market (12 comments)
God forbid the mainstream news media should ever mention this, but there was once a time in America when citizens thought of government as their friend, and no one with any brains took the theory of free market capitalism as espoused by Ayn Rand or Milton Friedman very seriously.
Thursday, April 3, 2008 Time for Young Americans to Stop Volunteering for Military
In the late 1960s, there was a famous slogan that emerged during the Vietnam War: What if they gave a war and no one came? The slogan underscores the point that although political leaders start wars and the military/industrial complex profits from them, wars would not be possible if young men and women refused to volunteer for military service, or in the case of the Vietnam War, allow themselves to be drafted.
Thursday, January 3, 2008 Top 10 Most Disgraceful Democrats of 2007 (1 comments)
There's no point in doing a list like this on Republicans. Calling them disgraceful would be an improvement, kind of like calling Hitler misguided rather than evil. Ditto for conservative Democrats, who'll share a special place in hell with their friends from across the aisle.
Sunday, December 2, 2007 The Conspiracy Against Renewable Energy (10 comments)
I hate to use the "C" word, but there is no other way to say it. There is a national conspiracy to prevent renewable energy from becoming the primary energy source in the United States.
Friday, November 2, 2007 Hillary Clinton: A Win-Win For Corporate America (15 comments)
It's a done deal. The corporate power brokers who hold the politicians in their pockets like so many nickels and dimes have already hedged their bets and decided that-- barring any unforeseen circumstances-- Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for president.
Sunday, September 2, 2007 What Would Really Happen if the U.S. Withdrew from Iraq? (2 comments)
The conventional wisdom is that Iraq will descend into chaos, the chaos will lead to regional conflict, and the regional conflict will hurt our interests in the Middle East.
Do you believe it?
Sunday, August 5, 2007 Enablers of Fascism: Fatalists, Corporatists, the Uninformed (1 comments)
So who are these enablers, and why are they doing nothing to prevent the Bush/Cheney regime and their fascist friends from taking over our democracy?
As I see it, they fall into three primary categories.
Sunday, July 1, 2007 Asthma Sufferers Beware!
Once again Big Pharma puts the screws to average citizens dependent on prescription medicine.
Thursday, May 3, 2007 Open Letter to Mainstream News Media: Time to Call for Pres/VP Impeachment (4 comments)
Yes, this means you, New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, Time, Newsweek, and all the other mainstream news organizations that have let the Bush administration off the hook for the last six years!
Monday, April 2, 2007 Will the Real Democrat Please Stand up!
Last month, the Democratic contenders for president appeared at a forum on health care. Only one contender favors a single payer universal health care plan and has already co-sponsored a bill on it.
Can you guess which one?
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 Real Reason George W. Bush Will Not Withdraw U.S. Troops from Iraq (3 comments)
No matter how many times our poor excuse for a president has changed his talking points about Iraq, he has no intention of withdrawing our troops from that war-torn country in the foreseeable future.
Tuesday, October 3, 2006 Midterm Election: Last Chance for Democrats & Democracy (7 comments)
The stakes in the upcoming midterm election couldn't be higher. If the Democrats lose again-- fairly or otherwise-- all hope is lost.
Friday, September 8, 2006 War on Terror Is Not a War, and It Is Not About Terror (1 comments)
Now that the mid-term election is approaching, the Bush administration is once again promoting the "War on Terror" as the ultimate propaganda tool masquerading as reality.
