Open Scandal

As the world continues its irreversible “slouch towards Bethlehem,” the murky cacophony of traditional season greetings increases exponentially. Those who spread the particular virus that there is a war on Christmas accuse anyone who does not light up the neighborhood with colored mini-lights or go about as if good cheer was a growl akin to [...]

After arrogantly spending months repetitiously bleating “Where are the jobs, Mr. President?”, John Boehner answered the question. In lieu of jobs, the new Speaker of the House has championed abortion reform, DOMA, immigration profiling, the dismantling of Medicare, the Patriot Act’s most abusive elements, tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, privatizing everything from Social Security [...]

While the middle class (or what’s left of it) is distracted by the power grab in Republican run States, Pete Peterson and his “Moment of Truth” operation works overtime to confuse the people I like to call the “popcorn boomers.” This is not a difficult task. Most of them live somewhere on Planet Fox and [...]

This week’s drama being played out in Madison, Wisconsin is a stark reminder of what the American worker and middle class citizen is up against. A Republican Party smelling the fresh blood of liberal-left institutions such as labor unions has struck repeatedly on behalf of monopoly capitalism. Its goals are three-fold. (1) Break the spirit [...]

Congressman Tim Scott is delusional. His prattle of skewed generalities and outright lies concerning Ronald Reagan would be humorous if it weren’t so sad. If the measure of a political leader is determined by how much cash he steals from the middle class to feed the blood sucking Wall Street Mafia, then Reagan’s your man. [...]

The furor over school reform, a product of ideological initiative, continues to inflame citizens in this country. Left, right, center, everyone is on the bandwagon to belittle and denigrate teachers, harass administrators and put a verbal pox on whole school systems in an effort to 1)divest parents of any and all responsibility for their underperforming [...]

You can no longer perceive cause from consequence and obliterate the lines separating facts from fiction.

They make big money for it. Rush Limbaugh, the mouth of confusion, makes in excess of $30 million a year. People like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, voices of rage all, pull in over $20 million each, and Glenn Beck, whose conscience only allowed him to spill even more venom on the day a Congresswoman [...]

Sixty years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower first coined the expression “military- industrial-complex.” He feared its intrusion into American economic life because it presaged the staged convenience of an unapologetic Pentagon’s blood lust for meaningless combat and its perfectly requited love affair with the corporate world’s vision of unbounded profit and poorly hidden greed. Now, $725 [...]

The Republicorp Party, feasting over their most recent legislative triumph, has returned to its usual nonsense. Only this time the bills they are seeking to block hurt people everywhere (as opposed to the bill they just supported on tax cuts for wealthy people, which will just result in expansion of poverty. So only poor people [...]