Supreme Court: The Republican Psyche Revealed
As I write, we are waiting for the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care, better known, often with disdain, as Obamacare. The decision should come this week. Whatever the outcome and many are betting the court in a typical conservative political move, will strike down at least part of the law – the mandate […]
90 Plus: Aging in the Future
By Ron Steinman Everyone knows the population in the United States is growing. Because of advances in medicine there are more people over sixty-five alive today than at any time in our history. But there is more to this than most realize. Be aware, change is fast coming to the geriatric population, and thus to […]
Endgame: The Problem Of Trivialization
On the advice of many Derrick Jensen’s “Endgame” has been on the ‘should read’ list for years, but somehow I have never gotten around to it. More recently a youtube clip of him reading an excerpt was brought to my attention, so I watched that, and then checked out sections of the books that are […]
Kennedy: “The Last Thing This Country Needs Is Two Republican Parties”
Last year today was probably one of the best day in President Obama’s life, but today could not be more different. As if it isn’t enough to have to deal with the major humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake,but President Obama and the Democrats have now to cope with the political seismic […]
Obama: From “Hope & Change” To Hopeless Status Quo Part 1
It is almost one year since President Obama took office, the expectations were high not only in America but across the world. In that time frame, President Obama’s approval rating has gone down by 20 percent in the polls as more people realized that he didn’t have a “vision for changing the world”, but instead […]
