While the outcome of the Egyptian revolution is impossible to predict and hard to forecast, what the events have fully exposed are the incredible shortcomings of the United States foreign policy. Analysts at the CIA, diplomats at the State Department and the so called brilliant people of the Council On Foreign Relations never saw the [...]
Year after his death, George Carlin’s razor-sharp comic wit and brilliant social observations are as relevant as ever. In this classic clip he lambastes the American Dream. “They call it the ‘American Dream’ because you have to be asleep to believe it.” Okay, they came for our jobs, our benefits, our opportunities. But don’t let [...]
Christopher Hitchens points to religion’s recurring tendency to pronounce medicine more dangerous than disease. Tea Party activists like Michelle Bachmann have a comparably dangerous dogma that holds TARP is worse than the sub-prime mortgage crisis, possibly the worst financial crisis in global history.
The United States national debt has passed $14 trillion. For each dollar spend by the federal government 40 cents is borrowed. So technically, the US is already bankrupt because it has a debt that is almost four times the size of its economy. Lawmakers in Congress are saying that their major priority is to tackle [...]
Another brilliant commentary from Bill Maher. Might make you look at football in a whole new way. Or maybe you’ll just eat more cake during the Super Bowl. “If you’re not in the game, you get indifferent to the fate of the game. And maybe even get bitter. And that’s what’s happening to the middle [...]
