Sunday, October 19, 2008 FDR: In times of crisis....
"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
Monday, September 29, 2008 Quoting Paul Krugman
"...we've become a banana republic with nukes."
Saturday, September 13, 2008 An Early Start for Sunday's New Weekly Show (8 comments)
What to make of the fact that the nation's leading financiers and economic gurus from Washington, D.C. have regularly been conducting business on Sundays?
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 McCain Is Hiding Behind Palin's Gender (1 comments)
The notion that criticizing the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate's positions, policies, and public record is sexist is absurd.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 What motivates political corruption (2 comments)
The AP is reporting that Jack Abramoff doesn't think he is a bad man.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Salaries as Guide to National Priorities (1 comments)
...inequities and imbalances in salary structures in the United States reflect misplaced national priorities...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Let Truckers Shut Down US (2 comments)
Gas Gimmicks, Domestic Oil, Alternative Fuels, and Truckers
Thursday, April 17, 2008 Journalistic Ethics (2 comments)
In the aftermath of ABC's media spectacle last evening, and its defense by David Brooks, Chris Mathews, and others, I find myself in the unusual position of reminding journalists what their responsibilities and duties are...
Sunday, April 13, 2008 War and Economy
The issues in next year's Presidential campaign are abundantly clear.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 NJ & politicos....purr-fect together! (1 comments)
The ban on dual office holding in NJ...should never have been enacted with a clause to grandfather in legislators running for re-election.
Sunday, March 23, 2008 Join Me in Writing US Sen. Dodd, Banking Committee Chair (2 comments)
I invite readers to write to Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Ct), Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, urging him to initiate oversight hearings into the credit and subprime crises.
Saturday, March 22, 2008 Justice Dept Must Probe Wall Street Securities & Derivatives Markets
The "geld-lust" of reckless, self-proclaimed greedy "capitalist pigs" on the Wall Street commodity market must be probed by the Justice Department and the United States Congress.
Saturday, March 22, 2008 Desperate homeowners burning their houses.... (11 comments)
I have received several anecdotal reports of homeowners financially runied by the subprime and credit crisis who have become so desperate they are burning down their houses.
Saturday, March 22, 2008 White House Forbids Fallon Testimony Before Congress (6 comments)
The White House is refusing to allow Admiral William Fallon, the Chief of the US Central Command who abruptly resigned on March 11th over public criticism of the administration's military policies, to testify before Congress in April on Iraqi troop levels.
Thursday, March 20, 2008 Fed Approves Auction of Another $75 Billion
The US Federal Reserve Bank announced today that it will auction another $75 billion in securities for huge investment banking corporations.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Clinton Campaign demonstrates dishonesty in Primary Requests
The whole coronation premise explains not just the fallacious arguments out of the Clinton camp of "unfairness" with respect to the primaries in Michigan and Florida, but also helps explain Sen. Clinton's sharp turn in tone and rhetoric following her early and frequent defeats leaving the candidate in second place throughout the balance of the primary season.
Monday, March 17, 2008 GET A GRIP (2 comments)
The decadent debate over the use of the term "whore" obscures real suffering as the world economy collapses. Has the Liberal Left lost its bearings?
Friday, January 18, 2008 The Economy and Paulson; on the meaning of "emergency" or "urgent need" (3 comments)
Henry Paulson's parsing of whether the Government's response to the state of the US economy is either an "emergency" or an "urgent need" makes little difference, and begs the question: why has the White House and the Congress been so remote from the situation of ordinary Americans, and especially the middle and working classes
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 Romney's Firing of Illegals Shows Hypocrisy
The crux of my arguments against immigration reform are nicely summarized in this latest Romney flip-flop: for years employers have served as a pull-factor to attract illegal aliens to the US to essentially exploit at the expense of paying American workers a decent, livable wage.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 On the Crisis in Pakistan
...what has happened in Pakistan is another indication of the type of crap shoot diplomacy and willful disregard of international realism (and international idealism, for that matter) on the part of the White House.
Friday, October 5, 2007 Jobs news is misleading...
"Irrational exuberance" is alive and well among market analysts on Wall Street. Actually, what they want is your money, not an accurate portrayal of economic health.
Friday, September 21, 2007 Senate debates Moveon.org ad
On the Senate spending more time debating ads then the war...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Pleasantville, NJ Mayor Condemns Arrested BOE Members
Mayor Ralph Peterson of Pleasantville, New Jersey is to be commended for condemning corrupt BOE Members arrested in FBI sting.....
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Indicted Felons Still Running Pleasantville, NJ Schools
Pleasantville Mayor Ralph Peterson quoted by the Press of Atlantic City:"Time is running out, that's all I have to say," Peterson said of the arrests. "This is disgusting and I'm sick of it."
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 HIV on Rise Among Young Gay Men in NYC (7 comments)
The abstinence only approach to comprehensive human sexuality education by the White House is failing another generation of young gay men.
Monday, September 10, 2007 The Camden 28 on PBS P.O.V. Program this week (1 comments)
On today's world scene, led by the United States with a shoot first, ask questions later mentality, this history deserves to be urgently remembered...
Sunday, September 2, 2007 Craig vindicated?
Craig is barking up the wrong tree....and doing the rest of us, and Idahoans, a disservice...
Friday, August 31, 2007 A Reflection on Larry Craig (4 comments)
Larry Craig is a symptom of a larger American societal sickness....
Friday, August 31, 2007 Marketing, or Morality?
For the Republican Party, Larry Craig is a "marketing," not a moral problem...
Friday, August 31, 2007 Unspoken words: what we aren't talking about in the Craig incident (1 comments)
The ugly, unspoken words nobody seems to be talking about in connection with Craig's attempted public bathroom sexual tryst is this: what if a child, rather than a police officer, was occupying the neighboring stall?
Friday, August 31, 2007 question for Republicans
Craig incident raises important questions for Republican Party; questions Republican's do not want to address....
Thursday, August 16, 2007 The day of no news?
It's a wonder there was any news today; what with the US stock market losing over ten percent of its vallue over the past two weeks, essentially destroying any gains more than half way through the year, one would only imagine the corporate-media types would be too busy on their cells and blackberries rearranging their 401(k)s.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 Latest Business Cycle (and its media coverage) begs scrutiny
This institutional/individual dichotomy was most apparent last week and into the first two trading days of the current week: mass injections of credit into the system by national banks, like the Ferderal Reserve. The message: well it's ok for "socialist" (i.e. government intervention) actions on behalf of institutions (i.e. corporations, banks, finacial houses, etc) but not for individual citizens.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 Reason for Hope: Reinstatement of The Laramie Project
....middle and high schools, ought to be the space where lessons about tolerance, intolerance, hate, acceptance, and love ought to be practiced....I am very confident and certain that Marion Bolden, the Newark schools superintendent, as well as Davidow and Pagano, would much rather see two young men kissing than lying in their coffins.
Sunday, August 12, 2007 AC casino revenues off in July (2007): Larger Implications?
If the trend in off-profits continues, it will mark the first year of decline in Atlantic City's lucrative gambling business since legalization in 1978.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Saturday, August 4, 2007 Burden rests on Pagano
An Ocean Twp,NJ School District Superintendent's decision to block the production of "The Laramie Project" based on a "potential for disruption" is double-speak, vague, and, most disturbing, dangerously ambivalent.
Friday, August 3, 2007 "The Laramie Project" Canceled in Ocean Twp, NJ
Here we go again, same stereotypes, misinformation, poor decisions by school administrators, just a different locale....
Saturday, July 28, 2007 Sidebar
Lack of media coverage of Prince van Anhalt incident belies seriousness of American press....
Friday, July 27, 2007 Rosalyn Carter's Work for Global Mental Health
In the aftermath of the Virginia Teach shootings, it was disturbing to see such misinformation, and stereotyping, however innocent, on the part of journalists, policy makers, and other opinion makers.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 Bush learns Arabic....
Bush deserves to be removed from office....
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 Pope condemns Protestant churches (7 comments)
Pope Benedict XVI condemned Protestantism, and other Christian denominations, by falsely asserting that Jesus "established" only one church.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 Democrats must stop talking and begin using their powers to act (2 comments)
The Us Congress, in Democratic hands thanks to a public overwhelmingly disillusioned by the war in Iraq and the failure to meet any benchmarks of progress there, must begin using their legislative perogatives and constitutional powers to end the occupation of Iraq.
Monday, July 9, 2007 HIV + Boy banned from pool belies ignorance of HIV in the USA
One of the conveniences of "the Other" is projecting our fears, prejudices, and mores on them; it's comforting to disguise our own deficiencies while projecting them on others.
Thursday, June 28, 2007 Philly falls to sixth
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the city has fallen in overall population from the fifth to the sixth largest city.
Sunday, June 24, 2007 Show us the pic (already!)...... (5 comments)
Show us the pic (already!)......gay boys kissing causes yearbook flap
Thursday, June 14, 2007 Big Ideas, Less Dollars
Democrats, especially the presumed front-runner, Senator Clinton, must set forth bold proposals and appeal to ordinary Americans...
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 Student-on-Student Bullying and Harassment Over Sexual Identity Must Stop
Reports of student-on-student bullying and harassment over sexual identity at a Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey public school are appalling, and especially troubling because a nearby school in Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey was found at-fault and liable in a separate case of gay bullying and harassment that reached the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Sunday, February 25, 2007 Pinky on NJ Christmas tree spending
State Senate Majority Leader claims Republicans were "more accountable" with Christmas Tree spending
Sunday, February 11, 2007 Gay Group Met with Atlantic City Business Officials
Gay marriage group leaders met with Atlantic City business officials concerning hostile, anti-G/L/B/T climate in area local gover
