President Obama is finally getting serious about articulating the dire consequences of Republican intransigence. In an interview on CBS he specifically states that social security payments along with many of the other 70 million federal checks may be at risk of non-payment. At the same time I heard some Tea Partiers stating that they should […]

It becomes difficult to deal with the barrage of misinformation and outright ignorance by many of the Republican politicians. It is as if these guys attempt to simply bring things up to buy time with the expectation that they will so drain thinking people that they just give up and let GOP reign. Case in […]

Don’t hold middle class hostage to interests of partisans and profiteers who cratered our economy The following letter was put together my several of us at the a civil activist group known as the Coffee Party. Dear Congress, As citizens we watch in utter despair as our Congress continues to gamble with our financial future […]

As I sit here in Starbucks working on my book I am blogging with my Motorola Xoom as I watch MSNBC on my Hewlett Packard Laptop via my Slingbox over the Internet in my home office. The technology out there is great. For all of those who want government completely out of our lives, they […]

Tax the Rich – Problem Solved Sunday 10 July 2011 by: Carl Gibson, The Cagle Post | Op-Ed What if there was a group of terrorists holding your family hostage with a gun pointed at themselves, demanding the account number to your pension fund? Would you negotiate with the terrorists by allowing them access to […]

I did the following CNN iReport a few days ago on the bad unemployment report. My resident Right Wing watchers were ready with the retorts of me being a communist inasmuch as I am a staunch free enterprise person. My concern is that we have given personhood to this thing called the corporation that has […]

It is sad when comedians provide better analysis than the mainstream media. Unfortunately that is the case. Bill Maher and Jon Stewart in their own funny way tend to get to the hypocrisy of both political parties analogizing them with simple events in a very entertaining manner. In this case, Bill is able to put […]

Republicans Speeding Off a Cliff? by Bob Henderson Chair, Kay County , OK, Democrats In the 1950s film “Rebel Without a Cause,” two teen-age drivers play a game of chicken. They drive speeding cars toward a cliff, and the driver who jumps out first is chicken. The plan is for both cars to hurl over […]

Americans in general are a good and trusting people. Have you ever noticed that for the most part whenever you engage in one on one conversation with anyone irrespective of religion, ethnicity, race, creed, or other that it is generally pleasant? Even if you get into the complexities of religion and politics a certain amount […]