Building Support For Healthcare Reform
The Obama administration is clearly having trouble getting a health care reform passed. If it is to accomplish this, it is mostly likely going to have to re-launch the effort sometime after Labor Day...
View ArticleMarking Failure
Last week President Obama gave a speech on Wall Street on the anniversary of the 2008 failure of investment banking firm Lehman Bros. While the speech was a call for support for his financial...
View ArticleCitizens United and Progressives
The case of Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, which was recently argued before the Supreme Court, is clearly one of the most important cases relating to preserving our democratic system...
View ArticleIt's Hard to Leave When You Can't Find the Door
Joe Walsh is right, of course, but it's even harder to leave if you aren't looking for the door. Given that a majority of the American and Afghan people want the US to leave Afghanistan, it's probably...
View ArticleHealth Care Tax Credits
The principal health care reform bills in Congress, particularly those in the Senate, make use in various ways of tax credits as a method of helping individuals or businesses to pay for health care...
View ArticleThe Commander-In Chief Should Command
While I believe that President Obama is, as he says, personally outraged at the large number of sexual assaults being committed in the military, it’s clear that he does not understand that he can bring...
View ArticleIt's Like 1968 All Over Again
This election is like the 1968 election. In that election, Gene McCarthy started a no-hope campaign to get the Democratic nomination from President Lydon Johnson. He was strongly supported by the...
View ArticleDeath of Middle Class White People
The 40 year-old war of the Republican/1% on the middle class has largely killed it, as we all can see in our daily lives. But this war on the middle class is also killing middle aged white people....
View ArticleProtecting Women From Real Terror
People are afraid of what they choose to be afraid of, and ignore dangers they choose to ignore.People are more or less aware that there is a problem with violence against women in this country....
View ArticleA Republican, A Centrist and a Progressive Walk Into A Bar . . .
Some politicians are called “centrists” by media people and others. Being in the center of something is seen as good for some reason, so normally this term is used with an air of approval. Yet what...
View ArticleHillary's Economic Plans
Yesterday Secretary Clinton challenged other Presidential candidates to have plans to increase wages and provide jobs to working Americans. She also added a few new thoughts of her own beyond the...
View ArticleHillary Clinton And The Days Of Yore
Frank Bruni’s column in the New York Times a week ago Wednesday was dead on in outlining Hillary Clinton’s problems in a Presidential election against Donald Trump, which prospect is raised by her...
View ArticleEconomic Inequality: The Healthcare Example
What has caused the severe economic inequality in the United States? It’s simple: there are lots of laws and business arrangements whose sole goal is to transfer money from 99% of the people to 1% of...
View ArticleHow The Inequality Works: The Challenger Disaster
Last week, Bob Ebeling died, which provides us with one last chance to learn the lessons of the Challenger disaster. Mr. Ebeling was an engineer at a Utah company called Morton Thiokol which was the...
View ArticleRunning Without A Clue
I don’t usually watch Mark Shields and David Brooks on PBS because I can’t take Brooks’ imitation of a reasonable person. But I did listen on Friday night for a few minutes, during with Shields...
View ArticleIncome Inequality: A Primer On How CEO's Are Paid
A lot of money flows from the 99% to the executive officers of companies. For privately held companies, the process of deciding how much to pay the CEO and the other executive officers is simple: the...
View ArticleHillary's Alleged Economic Expertise
On Monday, Paul Krugman announced that Secretary Clinton was very well informed about economic matters. So let’s test this claim by looking at one of her policy proposals.In one of her ads, she says...
View ArticleThe Surprising Of The Pundits
Now that Donald Trump is clearly going to be the Presidential nominee of the Republican party, the pundit community is busy considering how it failed to anticipate that event. Let’s see if we can help...
View ArticleGail Collins and the Democratic Platform
I like Gail Collins’ books and columns, but I was really taken with her column of yesterday in the NY Times in which she suggested that Hillary Clinton, as the likely nominee, but a person lacking in...
View ArticleGail Collins' Advice For Hillary Clinton
Last Thursday Gail Collins, in her NY Times column followed up her column of the previous Thursday by providing more guidance for Hillary Clinton on how to run her campaign. The last suggestion was...
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