The Main Stream Media needs a tight race for the presidency to drive its reader and viewership. So coverage of the President's tax return has been muted because the President puts his money where his mouth is.
For the Right anything Obama does is grist for the mill and fodder for the fools. They are railing because Obama did not go to Paris, but what if he did....
Is anyone else sick and tired of the constant lies being told to the American people about our federal budgetary woes and our supposed deficit armageddon?
OH and let's dispel another myth, there is no federal credit card. US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT debt does not work the same way as an individual or business debt works.
It was one year ago Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States...or wasn't according to teabaggers who protested the mucking up of the oath by Roberts. Remember? The de-legitimizing of Obama's presidency literally began on the...
Has American politics jumped the shark? Should it be cancelled and replaced with another reality show? Perhaps a spinoff about the Republican-controlled House that is committed to doing nothing to help Americans, maybe titled, "American Idle"?
Welcome to our ongoing thread covering the latest updates and opinions from our members on the GOP manufactured crisis of raising (or not raising) the debt ceiling.
Sometimes, in the course of history, the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has built up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat. So it was in Tunisia,
The opposition to involvement, no matter how limited, in war-like activity is based on a reaction to the nightmares that Iraq and Afghanistan became AND, of course, the ongoing plague of Obama Derangement Syndrome.
Tonight, Bill Moyers had a marvelous episode which I can't recommend enough.
The first segment was about the SCOTUS decision and the impact on our democracy.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02052010/watch.html
With pro and con voices.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02052010/watch2.html
The second segment I found the most intriguing, with a doctor...
Thanksgiving is a special day when we celebrate building a "yu-u-uge" wall to prevent the arrival in America of refugees from a country where they've been oppressed. As the Wampanoag tribe said as they saw The Mayflower approaching, "We...
