The idea on how to restore and secure Social Security for generations to come is not a new concept, but to actually achieve the results needed will take bold and decisive action. What has happened to the United States over the course of the past 40 years is a lesson of...
Right out of a Richy Rich cartoon comes the Republicans. The limo's, the high and mighty, the unconscionably wealthy who overshadow everyone else, and the entourages that follow in lock step close behind, all of this coming to town. Yes, folks the RNC is alive and well like a...
The summer of 2012 has created one of the worst food disasters since the Great Depression to hit the United States. Drought conditions have virtually wiped out over 2/3 of the nations crops of corn, wheat, and soy all essential for our nations food supply. That being said,...
" On a cold and gray Chicago morn another little child is born, in the Ghetto." That song opening of Elvis Presley's still sends chills not because of the words cold and gray, even though in Chicago there are periods when the weather is not all that nice, the connotation is...
January 21It was just after midnite, some six hours before the rising of the sun. This after all is the morning of inauguration day. A day of rejoicing, the swearing in of a new President, and a new beginning for a country still reeling from the past years economic crisis....
In this quintessential election year the American public faces a most daunting reality. From this summers massive devastation of harvestable food crops, the ongoing financial crisis here and in Europe, with mounting tensions in Iran, and the ever persistent civil war in...
In light of this summers extensive heat waves that have devastated so much of America's heartland one thing is perfectly clear food prices are expected to go through the roof. Whether it is corn, wheat, or soy the main sources of food that goes into just about everything that...
"People Won't believe me. They think I'm just bragging, the way I feel the way I do I should be on the wagon. All I need is one of your smiles. Oh me! Oh my! Baby do I feel high." That was such a catchy song by the Kingston Trio. It is too bad today's music doesn't reflect...
" It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." Charles Dickens opening to the Tale of Two Cities. A story of the French Revolution. How apropos for today! And yet strange as it may seem the complexity of living now compared to then. Who would have thought we'd...
The harsh reality of this summers heat waves where under the scorching sun what was supposed to be bumper crops of corn and soy are now withering. This was supposed to be a banner year in the harvest of major food crops which by the way would have led to lower costs...
With the world teetering on the edge of chaos where at any moment impending doom will sweep down over nations like the Grim Reaper laying waste to the masses all humanity is poised to await the inevitable, or is it? That opening to the movie 2012 shows that a catastrophic...
To infinity and beyond, Good old Buzz Lightyear or this one to go where no man has gone before sums it up nicely. As it turns out whether mankind continues to reach out into space especially with all the limitations that currently hamper further space exploration we are...
When the mayor of Scranton, Pa.took drastic measures for trying in salvaging the cities budget by slashing all municipal workers salaries to minimum wage at $7.25 per hour has set off a firestorm of resentment and even put the city in more economic and financial peril...
According to the latest medical journal the United States has more than doubled in the number of obese adults since the 1980's. Over 150 billion dollars this per year alone was spent combating obesity related aliments. This, while over 30% of adults today are on kind of...
It is too bad in United States with this country stuck in a quagmire of hopelessness when it comes to job creation we have two Presidential candidates who are spending more time campaigning than they are in trying to resolve the most important crisis since the Great...
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In The Ghetto