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Sunday, November 8, 2009
Greed Conquers Guilt by Joel S. Hirschhorn
Understanding the global economic meltdown requires seeing how greed has ruined so much because so many people feel no guilt about what they do to achieve their greedy goals.

Sunday, November 1, 2009
Being Judgmental by Joel S. Hirschhorn
If we are to make the world better, then we must strongly support the benefits of being judgmental. That is the proper and necessary use of intelligence and personal experience.

Monday, September 28, 2009
Herbal Terrorism from Pakistan by Joel S. Hirschhorn
Believers in alternative medicine need to know about a huge scam on the Internet with hundreds of sites selling bogus and possibly harmful herbal remedies from an operation in Pakistan that may be funding terrorism.

Friday, August 21, 2009
Progressives Screwed, Democrats Suckered, Republicans Smitten by Joel S. Hirschhorn
Examining the politics of health care reform shows that progressives were screwed, Democrats were suckered and Republicans have been smitten with their power to obstruct. Obama has let all this happen. Better no reform than something that does not control the health insurance industry.

Monday, July 6, 2009
Great Talent Versus A Great Life by Joel S. Hirschhorn
All the public attention to Michael Jackson's death should be an opportunity to distinguish between a great talent versus a great life. Those highly talented and creative persons in the arts and entertainment that merit our greatest respect are those that keep producing and contributing as they grow old, way past their peak success. Jackson died young and wasted half his life. Great talent? Of course, but not a great life.

Friday, June 26, 2009
Friends for Life
(1 comments) Data on the health benefits of friends are mind boggling. If you want to live longer, give even more priority to keeping and forming new close friendships.

Friday, May 15, 2009
Thank You Leonard Cohen
(3 comments) An amazing number of people cherish the legendary songwriter Leonard Cohen and rightfully so. At age 75 he is still performing at his peak, a message for us highly individualistic people to hang in and do what we truly believe in. His current concert tour is incredible as is his most recent DVD and CD.

Thursday, April 23, 2009
Delusional and Stupid Tax Deniers
(2 comments) Year after year some Americans refuse to accept truth, reality, law and the courts. They see themselves as discovering what others have not. They are, in my opinion, some of the most delusional and stupid people on the planet. They are called tax deniers, tax defiers, and tax protesters. Better to think of them as idiots who buy into theories that say no income tax has to be paid.

Thursday, March 26, 2009
Candy Really Is Dandy
Americans are eating more candy to cope with terrible financial insecurity. But, guess what, medical research shows that candy eating can help live longer!

Monday, March 23, 2009
Seeking Safety in Safes
Anxious Americans are hoarding cash. Increasingly they are buying home safes to stash it in. Is this a good choice? Does it help the economy?

Friday, March 20, 2009
Canned Tuna Ripoff
(3 comments) Consumers are getting ripped off with cans of tuna containing less product, and chunk tuna being more shredded than chunky. Big brands are usually lower quality than house brands.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
More Kosher Use of Antibiotics
Excessive use of antibiotics is even worse in farm animals than in people. It has caused evolution of superbugs resistant to antibiotics that are killing people. Government action is needed.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
No Basis for Public Confidence: More Mortgage Missteps
What you hear again and again about the unfolding of the economic meltdown is that it all started with bad home mortgages. What now is beyond belief is that those greedy, criminal elements in the private sector have continued to take advantage of the mortgage system, and the government has not prevented it. Quick defaults have received little attention.

Saturday, March 14, 2009
Senator Feingold Has Constitutional Opportunity
Senator Russ Feingold has a fine idea for a constitutional amendment: every senator must actually be elected rather than appointed to that position. But he should shift attention to getting Congress to obey the Constitution and call the first Article V convention. With over 700 applications from states for a convention, Congress has been violating the Constitution.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Earmarks versus Honesty and Integrity
Could there be a better time than the current economic meltdown and skyrocketing debt-based federal spending to put a stop to ludicrous, wasteful spending? If President Obama is not held accountable for doing exactly what he said he would do, then why should the nation keep having confidence in anything else he does or promises?

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Trust Your Doctor If You Can
(2 comments) The easy way is to trust your physician without really doing your homework. Trust in your doctor definitely impacts your health outcomes, but trust must be earned. Sadly, there are good reasons not to trust many doctors.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Thinking Like A Conservative to Save the Economy
Considering the depth and scope of the current economic meltdown, it pays to consider all possible government actions. Here are a number of ideas that fit with more conservative thinking, but could work better for ordinary people by getting government assistance directly to them, rather than banks, companies and other institutions.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Death to Money Vampires
In this crumbling economy what are people to do, other than try to survive? Demand criminal prosecution of hundreds if not thousands of white collar villains who greedily raped our nation and economy. Express disgust and disapproval that the Obama administration includes people who were part of the elite system that drove our economy into the crapper. Demand taxation of the ill-gotten gains from some 20 years of looting.

Saturday, February 21, 2009
How American Economy Must Change
Consumer spending can no longer be the engine of American economic growth and prosperity. Consumer confidence supporting compulsive materialism will not return. But the key problem is what can replace consumer spending? And whether the government stimulus program will work in replacing consumer spending with something other than borrowing money and increasing federal debt.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Citi's Taxpayer Parachute
(1 comments) When even the Wall Street Journal rips into the fed bailout of Citigroup you know just how wrong and disgraceful this action is. This is a remarkable critique of Citigroup that every citizen should read.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Sin Citi
A terrific rant on the absurdity of the fed bailout of Citigroup. Rage is called for. All the corporate bailouts from this Bush administration are obscene. Will Obama do anything different?

Monday, November 24, 2008
Team of Rubins
(1 comments) Excellent and creative analysis of Obama's selection of economic advisors and cabinet members. Looks at who he has picked and not selected. Explains why Republicans and conservatives seem happier than liberals and progressives.

Friday, November 21, 2008
Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of progressive?
This is the best analyis of all the semantic nonsense of Democrats and liberals calling themselves progressives. Anyone who persists in believing that being called a progressive actually means something significant absolutely needs to read this.

Thursday, November 20, 2008
Obama Throws No Bones to Progressive Base
When is Obama going to appoint someone who reflects the progressive base that brought him to the White House? At this point, progressives are getting absolutely nothing from Obama.

Sunday, November 2, 2008
In the tank for Obama
(2 comments) The media have done too little to explore this mystery candidate. It takes courage to see the truth, and the mainstream media have been cowards.

Friday, October 10, 2008
Obama's Magic
This is what great writing and analysis is all about. Every Obama supporter should read this very, very seriously. You just might be able to dissolve your self-delusion. Can McCain perform better? Of course not. Now is the time for true patriots to vote third party to end the two-party plutocracy.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
The Real Obama
If only Obamatons would put down their daily glass of Kool-aid and open their minds to terrific, objective and important statements like this one. Have the courage to really think about Obama's past.

Sunday, October 5, 2008
Pressured to Take More Risk, Fannie Hit a Tipping Point
Democrats really need to read this excellent analysis to understand the role of Democrats in creating our economic meltdown.

Friday, October 3, 2008
Shame on the Democrats and their community organizers
(1 comments) Can progressives accept the facts that unequivocally show that it was Democrats, including President Bill Clinton and his HUD Secretary as well as Dems in Congress, that created the entire sub-prime mortgage system that has exploded cand caused the current economic meltdown????? And there is a tight connection between Barack Obama and the left/liberal powers that demanded sub-prime mortgages for minorities.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
ACORN, Obama, and the Mortgage Mess
(2 comments) Of course we should be hurling blame at Republicans for our economic calamity, but make no mistake we should also bury the Democrats and ultra liberals with blame. Keep intellectual honesty and read this!

Saturday, September 20, 2008
John McCain's hot air
(3 comments) The best analysis of McCain's record on energy and environment, and the best evidence that he would be the Liar-in-Chief if elected.

Friday, September 12, 2008
Barack Obama the speechmaker is being rumbled
Here's the real problem with Mr Obama: the jarring gap between his promises of change and his status quo performance. There are just too many contradictions between the eloquent poetry of the man's stirring rhetoric and the dull, familiar prose of his political record.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
The best analysis of Barack Obama's mistakes
This is Howard Fineman on the candidate's pride, strategy and stump speak. Remember this analysis if Obama loses!!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Ron Paul's statement today
(3 comments) Ron Paul has made a terrific statement about the two-party plutocracy and the sad state of American democracy. He recommends that his millions of supporters vote for one of the third-party presidential candidates. He refused to support McCain. THIS IS MUST READING!!

Monday, August 18, 2008
Chinese Summer Olympics Paid for by USA
Some people praise the Chinese for the gift they have given the world. But the economics of these Olympics merit more serious examination. Americans have paid for the massive, multi-billion dollar spending to create the Olympics venues in China. In China millions of poor people are improving their economic condition and becoming middle class. Millions of middle class Americans are losing economic ground and joing the poor.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Where Obamaism Seems to be Going
STOP whatever else you are doing or planning and devote time to reading this most intellectually stimulating and challenging analysis of the whole Obama phenomenon - truly a remarkable achievement! Your brain will sweat.

Friday, June 20, 2008
The Small-Donor Fallacy
(1 comments) Can Obamatons open their minds? If they can, they will learn that his small-donor rhetoric is just another pile of deception. Obama is just another mainstream politician seeking and getting big money from corporate and other special interests.

Monday, June 16, 2008
Cell phones pop corn
(3 comments) Watch this video; it should be sufficient to cause you to seriously question your cell phone use!!!

Monday, June 16, 2008
Fighting Resistance To Voting for Ralph Nader
(3 comments) Put your biases aside and follow the arguments why voting for Ralph Nader for president really, really is justified this year.

Friday, June 6, 2008
The Democratic Gamble
This is a great no-nonsense analysis of Barack Obama's prospects for winning the general election. He may not succeed.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones and Cancer
Put that cellphone down! Now is not the time to trust the science the corporate state puts out. Trust the physicians that are protecting themselves.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Obama's Sin of Omission
(2 comments) A wonderful insight into Obama's thinking and cowardice.

Friday, May 23, 2008
Barack Clinton Obama
A very nice presentation on the facts that contradict Obama's attempt to portray himself as something other than a normal politician.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Maybe We Can't
A unique view of Barack Obama. A black person articulates a negative view of him. In other words, the black case for Obama-skepticism.

Monday, May 12, 2008
President Apostate?
(7 comments) Barack Obama really is a Muslim, at leasst under Muslim law! He has broken a sacred Muslim law and Muslims worldwide can seek punishment.

Friday, May 9, 2008
Beyond Unity - What Obama Needs Now
(2 comments) Remarkably good analysis that Obama has failed to make the case he could actually be a good president and run the government effectively. He has said that he is not an operating officer and running the bureaucracy is not his job.

Thursday, May 8, 2008
Debunking the Nader Nastiness
A terrific article with great data that should finally set the record straight.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Obama's Un-disownable Preacher of Hate
(2 comments) Every progressive still nuts over Obama MUST read this.

Monday, April 28, 2008
Obama Donor Received a State Grant
Terrific Los Angeles Times reporting on yet another highly questionable part of Obama's early history.

Monday, February 4, 2008
Important new article on Ron Paul
(3 comments) As I wrote several weeks ago, "the only people still defending Ron Paul are the openly bigoted or the comically credulous."

Sunday, January 13, 2008
All you need to hear about the Republican candidates
Treat yourself to a creative audio/visual representation of Republican campaign rhetoric.

Sunday, January 13, 2008
Hear the truth about Ron Paul supporters from a Paul supporter
(4 comments) "You will create more damage to our cause than good if you continue to spew hatred and poisonous venom rather than reason and kindness. Threats and nasty vile hatred will not spread our message; only detract from the importance of liberty and freedom."

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Explaining Ron Paul's function
"The purpose of Ron Paul is to provide false hope to the disaffected anti-establishment masses."

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
BEST ARTICLE ON RON PAUL
(15 comments) In "Angry White Man" you will learn more truth about Ron Paul than you ever imagined existed.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Pimp My Ride
This is a great article on Ron Paul, his supporters and his campaign by libertarian Tucker Carlson.

Monday, January 7, 2008
I Don't Vote by George Carlin
(4 comments) Treat yourself to great wisdom that will make smile by a master of comedy and American culture