Why stop at just health care? The current debate on health care has become so detached from reality that it’s become impossible to have a rational discussion about it. Just visit HuffingtonPost or Daily Kos to get a whiff of the tone. It goes something like this. “If the current bill isn’t going to cut [...]
Our congressional representatives swear an oath under God (don’t get me started about why God needs to be involved) to “… support, defend… and bear true faith and allegiance…” to our Constitution. Yet, when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was asked publicly under what constitutional authority congress could issue a mandate for U.S. citizens [...]
Dani and Eytan Kollin’s political science fiction novel, The Unincorporated Man, is a bit hard for me to categorize with just one descriptor. That would be a bit too reductionist, for their book is truly an imaginative, expansive and fully realized work of fiction that provokes thought and entertains, while speeding you on it’s way [...]
It’s really just too much to get my head around, but you have to read this article about the U.S. economy headed for another crash – in the Russian newspaper Pravda! The Russian word for “truth”, it was synonymous with Soviet state run media and propaganda back in the bad old days. But it seems [...]
Pew Research finds declining enthusiasm for capitalism.