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    The Grim State of the Nation

    February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, Health Care, Politics, energy, jobs

    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 [...]

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    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.
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    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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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    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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