The Obama Administration has made the turn necessary to get re-elected in 2012. Unfortunately that turn is at the expense of the middle class. While I simply hate this in effect the Obama administration may have realized that it is futile to fight alone. First came the budget compromise that continued to reward the rich […]

Repealing Healthcare Reform will make the Republican legacy for this Congress a clear vote against the middle class. Their unfettered protection of the insurance companies at the expense of the middle class is astounding. It is easy to understand that politicians support their constituencies. However, where matters of life and death are concerned it is […]

Corporations beg American taxpayers to help them get their business going. After they establish their product it is completely about maximization of their profits. While Tea Party member attack President Obama and Democrats for fighting for the middle class by instituting policies to protect the little that is left they simply disregard the inherently unpatriotic […]

Michael Steele has served his purpose. When President Obama was elected, Republicans falsely believed that they needed to match the Democrats with a black chairman. They chose someone they thought was pliable. Little did they know that Steele would have his own agenda. I never liked Michael Steele because he knew he was being used […]

Prices for homes escalated north of 10% per year because of a false demand created by banker types who created financial instruments that made loans available to people who could not afford homes. Even as the economy started to stall in 2007 oil prices zoomed not because of supply and demand but because of market […]

I received a two megabyte video titled Reagan versus Obama from a friend. The video begins with the infamous long play record Reagan made in the early sixties where he categorically stated that what we know of today as Medicare in effect would be socialized medicine that would take our freedoms away. It then alternates […]

The Chamber of Commerce is against healthcare reform because of the creation of 159 agencies? That is a silly statement by Tom Donohue, their President. I would support the repeal of Healthcare Reform if instead we institute a Single Payer Healthcare Insurance which would require just one agency, the agency that pays and administers the […]

The Texas comptroller announced yesterday that next year’s state budget shortfall, already tens of billions of dollars, will be $4.3 billion more because Texas has been running an operating deficit for its last two fiscal years. Cuts of twenty to thirty percent in higher education are being discussed in Austin right now. Please click on […]

  The Wrath of Fools: An Open Letter to the Far Right Monday 10 January 2011 by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t) To:       Palin-lovers, Fox "News," the "mainstream" media, and the Far Right, et al. […]

It is imperative that GOP / Republican / Tea Party is not allowed to escape their implicit culpability for creating the environment where guns and killing is the solution of objection in our political discourse. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is correct that Right Wing hate speech being spewed by Talk Radio and Right Wing […]