Bush and Sedition

A Christian Right candidate for political office compared America to "a woman who was doing her own thing" and whom a religious figure grabbed and was spanking and was insisting on spanking until she "repented." The actions of Christian Right in reality have been directed...

American Right, Soviet Union and China: Wrong Lessons for History

For two decades going now, we are seeing American Right continuing to claim credit for the breakup of Soviet Union and to equate the American Democrats with Stalinists and their crimes. Not enough has been done to change and to challenge this line, either in America...

Blame Bush Will not Work in November

The US elections are on November 2, 2010, just over 2 weeks. What will be the biggest issues? 37 US Senators will be elected, 435 members of the house of representatives, 36 governors, hundreds of state...

"How the Far Right Proves Its Own Arguments Wrong"

"The first hint that someone doesn’t have a clue what they’re talking about is when they contradict themselves.  Saying everything, anything, in hopes that something will stick.  It’s like a punch-drunk boxer flailing his arms like a windmill, desperate to hit...

Co-conspirator's possible links to prostitutes eyed

Federal prosecutors are reviewing records of two Washington, D.C., hotels where Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes (Brent R. Wilkes is a Bush Pioneer who raised at least $100,000 for the Bush-Cheney campaign...

Wall Street bailout a heroic move

New York (CNN) -- Most Americans oppose it, but the government's bailout of Wall Street appears in hindsight as a heroic rescue that kept the world economy from collapsing, says analyst Fareed...

Take the best Republican as a measure for Obama

I am not writing much these days, but when a story grabs me, I have to comment. Comparing the best Republican, presumably Ronald Reagan, to Barrack Obama in first term performance is a great idea. The...

Tea Party's Math and Clinton Policies

This is my full response to the people in the Tea Party movement who are agitating for more tax cuts or claim that tax cuts have always resulted in prosperity. When Clinton raised taxes on higher incomes in a serious effort to tackle the deficit, that increased investor...

Militias and Despotism: Who is fooling whom?

Although I have never owned a gun, I am not against private gun ownership. There are however attitudes held by many gun owners that are completely ridiculous, and it is time that these be addressed.A gun owner in rural Virginia once responded to Washington Post that "guns...

Tea Party candidates and Clinton boom

Just when I thought that the Tea Party movement could not get any more ridiculous, I've found on the website of a Southern Tea Party candidate a claim that Bush and the Bush-era Republican Congress were liberals,...

Republican Lies: How do they get away with it?

As I continue in my political research to view the standpoints and platforms of Republican candidates, I feel like shouting at them. That I of course cannot do; but I can write what I think about their statements...

The Continuing Erosion of the Bill of Rights

I keep seeing people go absolutely mad over Arizona's immigration reform bill. But nobody seems to care about the ever growing erosion of our civil liberties by the federal government! Why is this? Why do people...

The truth about Reagan and Bush Republicans

The American political debate has become more and more vicious, and in all the noise it is the message that tends to get lost. Others may have more slyness, more aggressiveness, more experience, and more skill as bullies. I have less of these things than Pat Robertson or Rush...

Ingenuity and Prosperity

The true root of prosperity is ingenuity and innovation; and it is in times that allow and value such things that wealth is actually created. The early 20th century - the time that America leapt from a backwater to world leader - was the time of ingenuity and...

Yugoslavia and Political Correctness

Tito's Yugoslavia was widely regarded as the best country in the Communist bloc. With a standard of living sufficient for it to be included in Organization of Economically Developed Countries, an infrastructure adequate for it to host Olympic Games, universal high-quality...

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