Someone Has To Do It
Five long years after the fact, we're finally beginning to see the start (albeit anemic, but a start nevertheless) of legal proceedings being levied against a paltry few of the avaricious thieves who...
View ArticleThe N.Y. Times and San Jose, California - The Monkey and the Grape
There's an old fable I remember from my childhood about a monkey trying to get a grape contained in a glass jar. He sees the grape and decides that it would be better in his mouth than in the jar. He...
View ArticleTwo Mass Murders in America: One Kills 3,000 - The Other Kills 200,000: Who...
As I write this the pundits are making hay while the sun shines, wringing their manicured, callus- free hands over a looming Federal government shutdown. Many who are reading this were in diapers when...
View ArticleSlip Sliding Away - AGAIN.
From the look and sounds of this morning's Sunday talking heads and media honeys, it appears that once again, a rare and prime opportunity for the Progressive movement to drive home its message and...
View ArticleIs It Time to Re-Think A 215 Year-Old Idea?
Since your average tea-bagger enjoys pontificating about how the country needs to get back to the "principles the Founding Fathers built this country upon", it seems somehow appropriate that in view of...
View ArticleRepublican Party Rebranding - An Update
It was several months ago when the commandant of the republican party opined after the recent election that their image needed re-branding.Over the course of these eleven months since that election...
View ArticleSo How Important Is Deficit Spending To Conservatives, Anyway? (apparently,...
Is there anybody out there old enough to remember Senator William Proxmire and his "Golden Fleece Award"?Click on the link below for more proof (as if you needed it) that conservatives could give a...
View ArticleToday We Learned The Character Of 21st Century America's Leadership
I've made a lot of comments here in response to several diaries over the last several weeks regarding how we got to this place in our history, who got us here, and postulated on the consequences of a...
View ArticleWar On Christmas? Nevermore!
... with apologies to the guy who made this style of poetic meter famous...
View ArticleUnemployment: Killing America from the Inside Out
If any one act of regressive deconstruction instigated by the neocon fringe in this country defines their basic principles under the presumption that one is judged by what one does and not necessarily...
View ArticleSelling Off America One Job At A Time - An Update On The Trans-Pacific...
If you're an American and you want to buy real estate in the Philippines, you can't. Why? Because you must be a Philippine citizen to own land there. Many countries on this planet in fact require...
View ArticleReagan at 103 - Gone, but Far From Forgotten
This upcoming February 6th marks the 103rd anniversary of the birth of Ronald Wilson Reagan. Conservative luminaries will once again memorialize this man and his memory in reverent, hushed tones;...
View ArticleThe REAL Reason Why That "Torture Document" Will NEVER See The Light Of Day:...
Warning:This is a long post.My purpose here is twofold: first, to provide insight directly relating to a recent diary demanding the release of the much-discussed “Torture Report”; and second, to...
View ArticleWhy Mike Honda's Reelection in Northern California is a Big Deal
For a time, about 35 years ago, the region that dubbed itself "Silicon Valley" - the greater southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area - had an ethos different from the rest of the country. Various...
View ArticleWhy? - A troubling Historical Precedent
On occasions where I participate in discussions with people regarding what has happened to our country during these first years of the 21st century – especially considering the mindset of...
View ArticleDefining "Freedom" - Who Would YOU Believe? : The Koch Reich or Winston...
“Freedom!” scream the Tea Party people when they gather to fly their confederate flags, shout epithets at gay people, mock the elected leader of the Free World for his color and co-opt a Constitution...
View ArticleMemorial Day on Christmas Morning, 1985
Almost 30 years ago, on Christmas Day, just before I left the East Coast for good, I finally mustered the gumption to visit the (then new) Vietnam Memorial in DC. I figured nobody would be there, and I...
View ArticleDateline, America: UNITED STATES UNDER BIOLOGICAL ATTACK!
After listening to the news and reading almost identical headlines throughout the media for the last 2 weeks, I thought I'd do some basic statistical research in a personal attempt to achieve some...
View ArticleWar On Christmas? An Encore
I published this little rant of mine right here on Daily Kos last year around this time, and I republish it again this year only because it's gotten worse. I saw one local store putting out Christmas...
View ArticleJust Curious: What Made Americans So Fearful and Stupid As They Are Today?
Once upon a time - after a ten year-long struggle to repair the damage from the Depression created by republican oligarchs - American resolve, industriousness and grit fought a world war on two fronts...
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