The Economy

The choice of Paul Ryan is a clear and unambiguous statement that the Romney campaign knows they are losing in a big way and needed to make a Hail Mormon pass to have even a miniscule chance of winning.

Many Americans mistakenly connect being wealthy with being smart but George W. Bush and now Mitt Romney have proven that conventional thinking to be as dead as the dodo...which coincidentally has become the new mascot of the GOP.

Sometime when you have a few hours to spend, peruse the want ads, you will find entry level jobs for college graduates with at least a Bachelor of Arts starting not much higher than $30k a year, and for High School graduates, they are lucky if it is around $10 to $20k, and that is if you can find help wanted listings at all.

The current LIBOR interest rate scandal, involving hundreds of trillions in international derivatives trade, shows how the really big boys play. These modern international bankers are in a class of thieves unlike even the best that came before them. The scandal over LIBOR which is short for London Interbank Offered Rate has resulted in a huge fine for Barclays but it also threatens to ensnare some of the world’s top financiers, including banks in our country.

I was not old enough to watch, much less understand the impact of the McCarthy hearings in the 50’s but I know to this...

In what can only be described as a surprising outcome, Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the four liberal Supreme Court judges to uphold the Affordable Care Act and its key provision of the individual mandate.

All you really want is a home you can live in comfortably, have the family over, let the grandkids run through...well there are people out there who don't want you to have it.

Each weekday, MSNBC creates 5 original hours of Conservative-hosted shows and 7 original hours of Progressive-hosted shows so of its hours of partisan programming, 42% are Conservative and only 58% are Progressive.

In politics, the media or business, an unspoken rule seems to be that accomplishing one's proprietary goals necessarily means discarding the quaint notion of being influenced by one's own conscience.

Bill Clinton has repeatedly put self-gratification above the best interest of the people and that is reflected even today in his throwing Obama under the train to protect those who are driven in limos.