Fiscal Responsibility And Runaway Military Spending Are Not Compatible
Today the Republicans and their Tea Party associates are dwelling in election victory. The GOP expressed that the American people gave them a “mandate” to either set the political agenda and, of course, derail any further plan of reforms coming from the Obama administration. The intention of the Republicans, bluntly conveyed today, is also to […]
Election: America As An Idiocracy With ADD And Stockholm Syndrome
Americans have just traded the little hope for some change that the Obama administration was timidly trying to bring to the country for anger, fear, and ignorance by relying on “solutions” which have caused a down hill spiral for the United States for the past 30 years. As I am writing this, the GOP and […]
Hopeful Progressives Count Their Election Day Blessings
Election Day brought some disappointment to progressives across the US. A Republican take-over of the US House of Representatives and of many state governorships, including in New Mexico and Florida, isn’t easy to swallow. But there are a few pieces of good news out there, including the victory of Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer in […]
What Obama Has Done [Comprehensive Edition]
There has been a great deal of change and reform delivered over the last two years. While most of these have gone by unnoticed or are not remembered, a fine Wiki team has recorded and organized every major point in a comprehensive database, now available here.
Election 2010: Afghanistan And Iraq Wars Are MIA As Political Issues
Americans are going to the polls next week, and this election cycle was long on negative adds, personal attacks and plain stupidity while short on real debates, between the candidates and in the media, on most key policy issues. Lowest common denominator politics is what truly characterized this political cycle. Today, comedian Jon Stewart is […]
