What is meant by "The Will of the People" that we hear daily from the noise machines? And what "people" are they listening too? 98% or 2%?
Corporate America has been encroaching on our government for decades. Slowly, but steadily increasing its reach within our legislative, executive, judicial and regulatory institutions. Our congress passes laws written by corporate lobbyists, appoints regulators who have deep and ongoing industry...
I'm sorry to say that Joan Walsh and I are no longer friends, and that's upset me. No more gossipy girls' lunches or hour-long telephone calls, no more whispery confidences about who's doing what with whom, no more laments...
I am writing this post to fulfill a promise I made to Kes awhile ago, but I think it will be interesting to a few. Sometime back in the early 1980's I was sitting in my office chatting with an...
CNBC is rebroadcasting this morning's economic-themed town hall event it hosted for President Obama.
It begins at 5:00 pm EDT.
You can Live Blog here as you watch the rebroadcast or watch the clips below and comment on them.
Obama: GOP Must...
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The Earth's head has got to be spinning. Humans are filling its seas with oil, chemicals, waste and massive islands of pollution, the process of mining natural gas is poisoning our ground water, rainforests and old growth trees are...
It has been hailed as America's most sensible solution for breaking our dependency on foreign oil and reducing the potential environmental destruction oil drilling can cause, such as the ongoing catastrophe in the gulf.
It has been marketed and promoted...
The spin of yesterday's election that is all over the MSM today is, "It's the year of the woman".
Some would beg to differ. On the surface it is true, several winners of primaries yesterday were women. But the case...
Well, Joe Biden was certainly right when he said that President Obama would be "tested" soon after taking office. The question is not so much "how did he do" on the test as it is, "when will the tests...
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