Manufacturing America is a National ImperativeProducing a new economic model and educating Americans about a sustainable future will take all of the next Obama term to set a new course. It will require the...
The only way to get the nation truly on track for a bright future is to purge the dimwit corrupt and ideologically retarded Republicans from office. I can’t make it any clearer than that. " “There are three...
Washington -- Still stinging from the lowly 10% approval rating it received from the American public, Congress has taken revenge, bestowing a measly four percent approval rating on taxpaying citizens. “Taxpayers...
Same sex marriage bans were overturned in California. Good! It's only a matter of time before the last bands of discrimination are lifted in the U.S. That includes yes, states such as Mississippi and Alabama. This column by Leonard Pitts Jr, from last month, takes...
Stealth Israel probably should not contemplate attacking Iran alone, if at all, IMO. The reason begins with the revenge factor. Iranians would spend generations wanting to get even, probably. Second, Israel...
US military turns special ops Sometimes the most effective transformation in the military is the one that wasn’t announced. It just crept up and happened. Inspired by the Green Beret and the US Marine Corp,...
I got sick and recovered. I lost my hearing, and improved to impairment. I look around at all of the college graduates out of work and I look at me at 64 years, disabled and retired of necessity and wonder how I...
You are going to get turboed. According to this story Congress isn’t going to reform the tax code in an election year. However, last year I didn’t get relief at all and paid more than ever. " “Looking For Tax Reform This Year? It's Not Likely Mon, 02/06/2012 -...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of the U.S. Supreme Court, when asked if Egypt should get a Constitution modeled on the U.S. Constitution stated: "You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone one since the end of World War II....
Time to go With unemployment dropping and the Occupy movement getting bad press for flag burning and hacking, it was time to move on the tents. There was marginal return on protests, apparently. If the President...
I don’t want to get carried away as we have years to go to get the economic engine in America tuned up, but I like our current mechanic. " “U.S. economy adds 243,000 jobs in January; unemployment...
Headed to the House A noble act. Is there anything up their sleeves except us? " “POLITICO Breaking News The Senate voted 96-3 to pass the STOCK Act, which would ban insider trading for members of Congress,...
Even with global warming A couple of years late, but salaries of federal workers are frozen. Until the debt is clear and GDP is pumping robustly, that’s the way it should remain. " “House votes to freeze...
Revenue production Understanding that there are constraints on America’s capacity to spend is step 1. The hard step remains, and that is determining how to grow the economy sufficiently to provide revenues for...