Another Case for Campaign Finance Reform
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Last November, America said a resounding NO to Republican ideas and a full-throated YES to change, including a new and sensible health care system. By what tortured logic, then, is the committee drafting new health legislation composed of an EQUAL number of Democrats and Republicans?
What kind of dysfunctional democracy do we have [...]
There Will Be Blood!
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009If Health Care Reform dies in Congress, its blood will be on the hands of two groups of people and one individual:
Group 1:The Right Wing of the GOP (McConnell, Boehner, Cantor, Grassley, et al) that has spread misinformation and sown fear in the hearts of their constituents, aided and abetted by Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and [...]
It’s Time To Call The Republicans’ Bluff!
Saturday, February 7th, 2009Once again, the Neanderthals in the Republican party are wielding their ideological wrecking ball against the foundations of the American economy.
Not content to have precipitated the current economic crisis with their disgraced supply-side, trickle-down tax cuts obsession, Republicans are pushing the same proposals to fix the economy that created the mess in the first [...]
Is This The End of John McCain?
Thursday, November 13th, 2008John McCain…that self-desribed paragon of integrity and honor…the straight-talker who always puts country first… is in Georgia campaigning for Senator Saxby Chambliss.
This is the same Saxby Chambliss who ran for the Senate in 2002, defeating the Democratic incumbent, Max Cleland…the same Chambliss whose campaign against Cleland focused on the issue of national defense and homeland [...]
Thoughts On Election Day
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008One of the benefits of having lived seven decades is that I’ve been witness to events that were not only personally thrilling, but that were memorable and historic for our country.
Sixty-one years ago, I saw Jack Roosevelt Robinson become the first black man to walk on big-league grass, and it made me proud not only [...]
Anyone still think they should be permitted to vote?
Friday, October 31st, 2008A University of Texas poll to be released today shows Republican presidential candidate John McCain and GOP Sen. John Cornyn leading by comfortable margins in Texas, as expected.
But the statewide survey of 550 registered voters has one very surprising finding:
23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Obama [...]
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