As we are about to enter the third month of 2010, the nation is in its worst financial and economic condition since, perhaps, 1939. We have large-scale unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcies, homelessness, hunger, lack of living essentials, and many working families with huge credit card debt. The Neoconservative Republicans who control the Republican Party, have [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Culture'
The Grim State of the Nation
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, Health Care, Politics, energy, jobs
Tags: clean energy·economy·energy·food banks·Health Care·health care lobby·health care reform·homelessness·hunger·jobs·reconciliation·Rupert Murdoch·stimulus·Supreme Court·tea parties·tent cities·unemployment·unemployment insurance
David Brooks and Neocon Advice to the Elderly
February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, General, Politics
“There you go again…” as a famous “B” movie actor once memorably said…memorable because he happened to be President at the time. Oh yes, we really did have an actor as President. But he was also a union president at one time. Granted, it was a union of actors, but he was elected.
One [...]
Tags: AARP·elderly income·Health Care·income inequality·Medicare·national debt·Neoconservative budget planning·retirement·Right Wing·Social Security cuts·tax cuts·tax hikes·tax increases
We Need Unions Today More Than Ever.
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Courts and the Law, Culture, Economics, Politics, jobs
Under the Bush Administration, unions found themselves once again under siege. The last 29 years have been a battle against corporate lobbyists, Right-Wing radio commentators, and congressmen-turned-lobbyists. Many in the public, including many Democrats have forgotten the debt we all owe to the literally dead and wounded union warriors in the long struggle for the [...]
Tags: anti-union activists·Bush Labor Department·corporate lobbyists·Elaine Chao·unions
The Supreme Court Says: Corporations, Yes–Americans, No.
January 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Courts and the Law, Culture, Politics
Yesterday, January 21, 2009 may have been a watershed moment in the short timeline of American history. Many say it was. If they are right, and you are among the vast middle class, no matter how benevolent your employer or how prudent your personal economics, your future is in jeopardy.
The Supreme Court yesterday voted [...]
Tags: corporate campaign contributions·Supreme Court·Supreme court decisions
Look For the Union Legacy.
January 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, jobs
America is a society that is governed by the principle of majority rule. In a free society, some form of majority rule is the most logical application of governance. For centuries, workers have organized under the same principles of majority rule in order to use the collective power of the group to create greater leverage [...]
Tags: anti-union·FDR and Unions·National Labor Relations Board·Reagan and unions·strikebreakers·strikes·union avoidance·union organizing·unions
Nazis and Neoconservatives…Are There Valid Comparisons?
January 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Politics, wars and militarism
For some time now, we have seen comparisons between various groups, various individuals and the Nazis. The comparisons are almost always totally imperfect. First of all, Nazis were murderers. There are no murderers among contemporary politicians unless you consider it an act of murder to start a war on false premises, a war that kills [...]
Tags: Bush administration·Hitler·Nazi·neocon·Neoconservative·Right Wing
The Myth of the American Political Center
December 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics
Because of the intensity of the debate on health care reform, and the Republican ideological war on the middle class, we are now hearing much talk about the “American Center,” the supposedly independent political middle. The fact is that there is no political middle, polls notwithstanding. The only poll that matters, politicians will tell you [...]
Tags: Health Care·Media·media and politics·Politics·Republicans·Right Wing
Before Neocons Call People “Nazis” They Should Look in the Mirror.
December 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics
Shame on the Neoconservatives, as they call themselves. They want to be called “Republicans.” But we can’t really call them Republicans, can we? They are not traditional Republicans. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower were more or less traditional Republicans. Neoconservatives are more like the old Dixiecrats. In fact the manic racist Strom Thurmond [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Cheney·health care reform·health insurance industry·Hitler·Lieberman·lobbyists·Lunatic fringe·Nazi·Nazis·neocon·Neoconservative·Politics·President Obama·Right Wing·Rupert Murdoch·tea parties
Fools, Damned Fools, Morons…and Sean Hannity
December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Media, Politics
There are a number of so-called commentators who are paid enormous sums to distort the truth on Fox News Channel in order to persuade poor and middle class people to vote against their own best interests. Sean Hannity is perhaps foremost among those.
If you tell a sophisticated New Yorker that Sean Hannity is basically from [...]
Tags: Neoconservative propaganda·Obama·Republicans·Right Wing Propaganda·Right Wing Talk Show Hosts·Right Wing Talk shows·Sean Hannity
Down to the Wire on Health Care Reform
December 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics
Americans used to be winners. Now we are losers. The current crop of middle-aged Americans are so far from reality that it almost makes a grown man…of which there are fewer and fewer…cry. We started out a year ago electing a man as President who said that he would initiate the process of creating a [...]
Tags: Congressional debate on health care·Health Care·health care debate·health care lobby·health care reform·health insurance·health insurance industry·lobbyists·Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska·Senator Blanche Lincoln·Senator Evan Bayh·Senator Landrieu·Senator Lieberman·Senator Mark Pryor
Lou Dobbs and the Mystery of the Missing Birth Certificate
November 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Culture, International affairs, Media, Politics
Lou Dobbs has been on the air for 30 years. In chronological years, he is not an old man these days. But in keeping up with the times, in educating himself, and in thinking of the future, is he living in a past age? Has time passed him bye? Does he still wear brown shoes [...]
Tags: birthers·guns·illegal aliens·illegal immigration·Lou Dobbs·Media·President Obama·President Obama's birth certificate
Reality, Fantasy and Leadership
November 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Politics
Since the latter part of the last decade of the 20th Century, the once-great United States of America has fallen into a trap. That trap is that we can continue to be great without paying the price for greatness.
Everyone knows the price but no one is willing to pay it. The price is a higher [...]
Tags: Bush administration·Europe·fantasy·fundamentalist christians·Gore·leadership·Lieberman·Lunatic fringe·political reality·Politics·reality·recession·Republicans·Right Wing·slavery·tea parties·war
Reality, Dreams and Politics
October 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Culture, Media, Politics
Every day we live our lives, most of us, in stark reality. Some of us may say: What? Stark reality? Few of us think of “reality” as being stark or even thinking of our daily lives as being reality. We live in an atmosphere that is a visual and audible perception of events, a parade [...]
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Mobs, Revolutions, Moral Majorities and Totalitarian Governments
October 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics
There is a lot to be said for civic activism. The Civil Rights movement, addressing a leftover 19th Century attitude towards African-Americans called segregation, was a wonderful example of the dedication of a huge number of individuals who banded together to do the right thing.
It is always the right thing that seems to succeed [...]
Tags: health care fraud·mobs·reactionaries·revolutionaries·Right Wing groups·tea parties·totalitarian government

















The Great Right-Wing Propaganda War
November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics, jobs
There is a war going on in this country. It is a war against the American People and a war against the truth. It is not being waged by terrorists but by a group of hugely wealthy, arch-conservative individuals who merely want…more. Their personal assets, both individually and collectively are in the billions and they [...]
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Tags: conservative commentators·conservative media·conservative radio·conservative talk show hosts·health care reform·lobbyists·Media·Michael Savage·Ollie North·radio talk shows·Rush Limbaugh