I generally do not write blogs specific to racial issues. I do not want what I write to be judged through a racial prism at all. That said this one cannot pass. I have been an American citizen for decades. I have lived under various Presidents. In fact I have lived under several patently corrupt […]

Young people who love America and contribute to America strengthen America. It’s not right to punish children who’ve done nothing wrong because you don’t like what their parents did. The President’s common sense decision means that young people who grew up in America can keep contributing to the only home they’ve ever known. It’s not […]

  American Dreamers — Why Fact-based Immigration Policy is Good for Our Economy, Good for America by Eric Byler President Obama’s decision to override years of anti-immigrant obstruction is not only good for immigrant families — it is good for America as a whole. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this approach, known as the DREAM […]

Before I get spears thrown at me for the title of this post, I must state that the economy as a whole is doing terrible for working middle class Americans. That said the private sector is doing fine. Corporations have record profits. Corporations have record cash on hand. Our GDP has recovered. It is now […]

The article below “Family Net Worth Drops to Level of Early ’90s, Fed Says” is simply a confirmation of what most of us have known, assumed, and felt for the last several years. Let me be clear, the continual decline of the middle class is provably the result of supply side economics instituted by Ronald […]

    Shareholders and activists are gathering in Chicago today to protest corporate political spending, and Target stands front and center in their bullseye. Target’s political spending practices have landed the company in hot water before, so shareholders are rightfully concerned. In 2010, Target came under fire for contributing $150,000 to MN Forward, a group […]

I saw the article that follows below and it got me thinking. Folks, it is not about class envy. It is about the survival of the country. We have been programmed to believe that any commentary about the wealthy’s disproportionate share of our nation’s income, wealth, or political power is either class envy or class […]