News & Politics

Five hours ahead and one day behind, I went to bed last night, having  just watched Rachel Maddow begin her Tuesday broadcast by roundly proclaiming...

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NIMBY....it is a concept that rears it's ugly head too often in the American social culture. While many will agree, in theory, certain things need...

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Here is a little ammunition and something to think about the next time you hear that raising taxes on "business" will stop them from hiring or squash their ability or willingness to invest or to upgrade their equipment or infrastructure.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. Muriel Rukeyser Poetry, in  a sense, is the art of making nothing mean something. Famed French poet and playwright, Jean Cocteau once...

Boy, do I love it when frauds are exposed. I love it when people are exposed as users of other people in order to...

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The wealthy have been engaged in open class warfare against the American People for 30 years. The war is at a turning point and what could be lost may never be regained. It's time for us to step up to confront and defeat this very real threat to the American way of life and our democracy.