Would you like to know how many people have visited this page? Or how reputable the author is? Simply
sign up for a Advocate premium membership and you'll automatically see this data on every article. Plus a lot more, too.
 SHARE 
|
|
Joel S. Hirschhorn is the author of Pandemic Blunder: Fauci and Public Health Blocked Early Home COVID Treatment, Delusional Democracy - Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government and several other books, as well as hundreds of articles. His current political writings have been greatly influenced by working as a senior staffer for the U.S. Congress and for the National Governors Association. He now focuses on health issues and pandemic management.
OpEd News Member for 931 week(s) and 6 day(s)
281 Articles, 57 Quick Links, 811 Comments, 67 Diaries, 1 Polls
Articles Listed By Date
List By Popularity
List By Popularity
Page 10 of 15 First Last Back Next 11 12 13 14 15 View All
(7 comments) SHARE
Friday, March 21, 2008
Open Letter to John McCain Every few days I get yet another mailing begging me for money for your campaign. There is always explicit language about my being one of your supporters. But I do not support you for president. You are an abomination, because of your support for President George W. Bush and his unjustified, immoral and illegal Iraq war.
Friday, March 21, 2008Open Letter to John McCain Every few days I get yet another mailing begging me for money for your campaign. There is always explicit language about my being one of your supporters. But I do not support you for president. You are an abomination, because of your support for President George W. Bush and his unjustified, immoral and illegal Iraq war.
(12 comments) SHARE
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Time to Fight Junk Mail The U.S. Postal Service is our enemy. While countermeasures have been created to deal with the invasion of telemarketing phone calls and spam emails, we continue to be bombarded by junk mailings. The solution that the USPS is opposing is a do-not-mail list or registry that households could choose to join.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008Time to Fight Junk Mail The U.S. Postal Service is our enemy. While countermeasures have been created to deal with the invasion of telemarketing phone calls and spam emails, we continue to be bombarded by junk mailings. The solution that the USPS is opposing is a do-not-mail list or registry that households could choose to join.
(1 comments) SHARE
Thursday, March 13, 2008
The Real Spitzer Lessons Once you accept as normal the dishonesty of politicians you have defined our delusional democracy. Simply saying that all politicians lie and have always lied is no justification for keep believing their lies.
Thursday, March 13, 2008The Real Spitzer Lessons Once you accept as normal the dishonesty of politicians you have defined our delusional democracy. Simply saying that all politicians lie and have always lied is no justification for keep believing their lies.
(2 comments) SHARE
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Mending Broken Hearts with Cardiac Rehab The odds are great that you or someone you care about will have a heart attack and survive it. But until I had a heart attack I was totally unaware that after surviving one there is a critically important option that far too few survivors take advantage of. It is called cardiac rehab, a medically supervised and monitored program of exercise with counseling, dietary and other features.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008Mending Broken Hearts with Cardiac Rehab The odds are great that you or someone you care about will have a heart attack and survive it. But until I had a heart attack I was totally unaware that after surviving one there is a critically important option that far too few survivors take advantage of. It is called cardiac rehab, a medically supervised and monitored program of exercise with counseling, dietary and other features.
(8 comments) SHARE
Thursday, February 28, 2008
God Bless Ralph Nader In many ways, the Nader candidacy is not about him becoming the best president possible, but rather in pushing any Democrat who becomes president to be a far better one by serving the public interest in the noble Nader tradition. A vote for Nader is always a vote for rebooting American democracy.
Thursday, February 28, 2008God Bless Ralph Nader In many ways, the Nader candidacy is not about him becoming the best president possible, but rather in pushing any Democrat who becomes president to be a far better one by serving the public interest in the noble Nader tradition. A vote for Nader is always a vote for rebooting American democracy.
(16 comments) SHARE
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Delusional Hope: The Obama Rapture Barry Obama has accomplished semantic alchemy, turning justified but grim distrust and outrage with government and politics into hallelujah hope. But most hope never materializes and is a terrible predictor of reality. Obama has produced an epidemic of contagious delusional hope for a population rightfully disgusted with ordinary politics and politicians. Welcome to the Obama rapture.
Thursday, February 21, 2008Delusional Hope: The Obama Rapture Barry Obama has accomplished semantic alchemy, turning justified but grim distrust and outrage with government and politics into hallelujah hope. But most hope never materializes and is a terrible predictor of reality. Obama has produced an epidemic of contagious delusional hope for a population rightfully disgusted with ordinary politics and politicians. Welcome to the Obama rapture.
(1 comments) SHARE
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Obama Hope Beating Clinton Help Hillary Clinton is selling Day-1 help to victims and sufferers. Barack Obama is selling effervescent hope to yes-we-can dreamers. This media hyped horse race is like a fight between diet Coke and diet Pepsi, artificially sweetened candidates devoid of real nourishment.
Thursday, February 14, 2008Obama Hope Beating Clinton Help Hillary Clinton is selling Day-1 help to victims and sufferers. Barack Obama is selling effervescent hope to yes-we-can dreamers. This media hyped horse race is like a fight between diet Coke and diet Pepsi, artificially sweetened candidates devoid of real nourishment.
(10 comments) SHARE
Friday, February 1, 2008
The Evolution of Evil Perhaps a global political apocalypse has already arrived. Evil forces and tyrannical governments have evolved. By learning from history and using new technology they have smarter tools of tyranny. The tools of real rebellion are weak. Most corrupt and legally sanctioned forms of tyranny hide in plain sight as democracies with free elections. The toughest lesson is that ALL elections are distractions.
Friday, February 1, 2008The Evolution of Evil Perhaps a global political apocalypse has already arrived. Evil forces and tyrannical governments have evolved. By learning from history and using new technology they have smarter tools of tyranny. The tools of real rebellion are weak. Most corrupt and legally sanctioned forms of tyranny hide in plain sight as democracies with free elections. The toughest lesson is that ALL elections are distractions.
(16 comments) SHARE
Thursday, January 17, 2008
False Gods Create False Hope When people rally behind false change agents something worse than being disappointed and having their hopes killed happens: the national energy for real change is wasted. In the end, false change agents protect the status quo political establishment.
Thursday, January 17, 2008False Gods Create False Hope When people rally behind false change agents something worse than being disappointed and having their hopes killed happens: the national energy for real change is wasted. In the end, false change agents protect the status quo political establishment.
(44 comments) SHARE
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Change Yes, Ron Paul No Americans want a real political leader, a real change agent. Ron Paul has never been a change agent. He is a change-talker. His claim to fame is voting against legislation, not writing bold legislation to produce change that actually became law. Despite Paul being flush with money and having a large number of workers in Iowa, he was solidly rejected as the leading change agent.
Saturday, January 5, 2008Change Yes, Ron Paul No Americans want a real political leader, a real change agent. Ron Paul has never been a change agent. He is a change-talker. His claim to fame is voting against legislation, not writing bold legislation to produce change that actually became law. Despite Paul being flush with money and having a large number of workers in Iowa, he was solidly rejected as the leading change agent.
(4 comments) SHARE
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Vomit Politics Following the current endless news coverage of this presidential primary season makes me sick. I have never seen and heard so much empty-minded hype and over-exaggeration of so much unimportant political crap. The sole function of the mainstream media seems to be to convince us that we actually have a competitive political system, which is a lie. Welcome to vomit politics in the world's greates
Thursday, January 3, 2008Vomit Politics Following the current endless news coverage of this presidential primary season makes me sick. I have never seen and heard so much empty-minded hype and over-exaggeration of so much unimportant political crap. The sole function of the mainstream media seems to be to convince us that we actually have a competitive political system, which is a lie. Welcome to vomit politics in the world's greates
(5 comments) SHARE
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
David Brooks Almost Said Something Smart What I first thought smart was the statement that "some would rather remain in control of a party that losses than lose control of a party that wins." But then I started thinking. What both major parties really fear is a nominee for president that would actually work to overturn the political establishment by eliminating the two-party stranglehold.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008David Brooks Almost Said Something Smart What I first thought smart was the statement that "some would rather remain in control of a party that losses than lose control of a party that wins." But then I started thinking. What both major parties really fear is a nominee for president that would actually work to overturn the political establishment by eliminating the two-party stranglehold.
(28 comments) SHARE
Thursday, December 27, 2007
As A Dissident, Why Am I Not A Ron Paul Supporter? It's as if a whole lot of people have caught a virus that I have escaped. People that I thought had correctly rejected the current corrupt two-party controlled political system have flocked to Paul. This is what I most look forward to in coming weeks and months: Enough sanity among Americans so that Paul does not win any caucus or primary and never gets close to winning the Republican nomination.
Thursday, December 27, 2007As A Dissident, Why Am I Not A Ron Paul Supporter? It's as if a whole lot of people have caught a virus that I have escaped. People that I thought had correctly rejected the current corrupt two-party controlled political system have flocked to Paul. This is what I most look forward to in coming weeks and months: Enough sanity among Americans so that Paul does not win any caucus or primary and never gets close to winning the Republican nomination.
(49 comments) SHARE
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
9/11 Truth Manifesto For evidence that America's political system is a criminal conspiracy, open your mind to piles of new analyses that prove beyond doubt that the official 9/11 story is a lie. Years of a bipartisan cover-up of 9/11 lies make it much more than one horrendous past event. It endures in infamy as a symptom of a corrupt and dishonest government. The 9/11 truth movement must be a political movement to help us take back our nation.
Wednesday, December 19, 20079/11 Truth Manifesto For evidence that America's political system is a criminal conspiracy, open your mind to piles of new analyses that prove beyond doubt that the official 9/11 story is a lie. Years of a bipartisan cover-up of 9/11 lies make it much more than one horrendous past event. It endures in infamy as a symptom of a corrupt and dishonest government. The 9/11 truth movement must be a political movement to help us take back our nation.
(5 comments) SHARE
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Obama versus Clinton versus Plutocracy Whenever you hear more chatter about the tight Democratic primary race take a breath. Get back in touch with your cynicism. Talk about change is for campaigns; protecting the status quo is for winners. Plutocrats know who they want and what voters can be conned into voting for. They want Hillary and Obama is needed as VP to offset her negatives.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007Obama versus Clinton versus Plutocracy Whenever you hear more chatter about the tight Democratic primary race take a breath. Get back in touch with your cynicism. Talk about change is for campaigns; protecting the status quo is for winners. Plutocrats know who they want and what voters can be conned into voting for. They want Hillary and Obama is needed as VP to offset her negatives.
(2 comments) SHARE
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Foreclosure USA Revisited I bet most Americans believe the current mortgage crisis came on suddenly and might even be wondering how so many smart people in the financial sector could be so shocked by the enormity of it. In fact, all of it was seen and predicted by many honest people.
Sunday, December 9, 2007Foreclosure USA Revisited I bet most Americans believe the current mortgage crisis came on suddenly and might even be wondering how so many smart people in the financial sector could be so shocked by the enormity of it. In fact, all of it was seen and predicted by many honest people.
(2 comments) SHARE
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Washington Post Misses Opportunity If a city bus driver must serve one year in prison for killing two people, then imagine what jail time Bush criminals should receive for the many thousands murdered in Iraq because there were too few of them and because they did not have adequate body and vehicle armor, for example. Then why haven't we heard any current Democratic presidential candidate publicly reveal their intentions to pursue felony criminal charges?
Thursday, December 6, 2007Washington Post Misses Opportunity If a city bus driver must serve one year in prison for killing two people, then imagine what jail time Bush criminals should receive for the many thousands murdered in Iraq because there were too few of them and because they did not have adequate body and vehicle armor, for example. Then why haven't we heard any current Democratic presidential candidate publicly reveal their intentions to pursue felony criminal charges?
(4 comments) SHARE
Friday, November 30, 2007
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Disappoints Kennedy's endorsement of Hillary just shows how the status quo political establishment can rig the system to get what it wants. Hillary Clinton represents the worst of the Democratic contenders. She is totally committed to take all the corporate money she can get. She really is a hawk when it comes to the Iraq war and even voted the wrong way recently when it comes to Iran. She is incredibly dishonest and phony.
Friday, November 30, 2007Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Disappoints Kennedy's endorsement of Hillary just shows how the status quo political establishment can rig the system to get what it wants. Hillary Clinton represents the worst of the Democratic contenders. She is totally committed to take all the corporate money she can get. She really is a hawk when it comes to the Iraq war and even voted the wrong way recently when it comes to Iran. She is incredibly dishonest and phony.
(3 comments) SHARE
Monday, November 26, 2007
What happened to my country? A poem of sadness about losing the country I once took for granted.
Monday, November 26, 2007What happened to my country? A poem of sadness about losing the country I once took for granted.
SHARE
Friday, November 23, 2007
Unthanksgiving Most Americans have succumbed to tradition and advertising and stuffed their bellies with unhealthy food and their shopping carts with unnecessary stuff. Now, here are some tough facts about the sad state of the American economy. Research has documented that only 6 percent of children born to parents with family income in the bottom fifth of the income spectrum move to the top fifth. The rags to riches story is garbage.
Friday, November 23, 2007Unthanksgiving Most Americans have succumbed to tradition and advertising and stuffed their bellies with unhealthy food and their shopping carts with unnecessary stuff. Now, here are some tough facts about the sad state of the American economy. Research has documented that only 6 percent of children born to parents with family income in the bottom fifth of the income spectrum move to the top fifth. The rags to riches story is garbage.
