Politics And More

Real Balance in the Budget

February 17, 2011

TO: Members of Congress and The President of the United States As the fight over the federal budget starts to heat up, it is important that decisions about what programs should be funded and what [read more]

Politics And More

The (US) Mid-Terms

November 3, 2010

Many Republicans are saying they won simply because the electorate rejected everything that Obama stands for. Plenty of progressives peg the problem as weak-kneed Democrats caved to neo-cons. Other Democrats will say it was an [read more]

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Stop shopping at BigCo.

January 27, 2010

I see a very basic link between the shopping habits of American consumers and the dearth of manufacturing jobs in this country. Here is the story I’ve heard over and over; the amounts are not [read more]