You say you want a revolution… According to a PublicMind poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University, nearly one-third of registered voters answer in the affirmative to the proposition “In the next few years, an armed revolution might be necessary in order to protect our liberties.” Commentators [more...]
Right vs left is a road to nowhere By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News Keeping our nation divided as right vs left is an agenda supported by both Fox News and MSNBC. The media and the politicians both profit from Americans believing they should hate [more...]
Jobs crisis over! Hiring increase for receptionists, waiters, clerks, temp workers… At last, some excellent economic news for folks long-mired in the jobs crisis and stagnant labor market! At least, those were the headlines recently trumpeted across the country. “Jobs Spring Back,” exclaimed a typical [more...]
Punditry declares Obama is already a lame duck, and may as well burrow deep and lie low You do realize that Washington, D.C. is not the real world, don’t you? It’s a state of mind. An altered state of mind. Where you’re damned if you do [more...]
Big doings in Big D — the George W. Bush Presidential Library is open for business! What a piece of work it is: a $250 million, 226,000-square-foot edifice on 23 acres in Dallas. His brick-and-limestone structure is certainly imposing, but once inside, you quickly see [more...]
A veritable gaggle of disgraced politicians have recently serpentined their way back into the spotlight F. Scott Fitzgerald famously uttered, “there are no second acts in American lives,” but bless his heart, the besotted scribe seems blissfully unaware of the loophole large enough to taxi [more...]
Besides calling them “senators,” citizens also think they should sit in the corner with a dunce cap on Americans, sick of the kowtowing and cowardice of their elected officials in the face of NRA intimidation when voting to defeat even the most reasonable of gun [more...]
Wall Street Bankers gone wild! Let’s tally some of the Wall Street banker crimes: JPMorgan Chase engaged in massive, systematic fraud to foreclose without cause or due process on innocent homeowners, tossing thousands of families into the streets. Goldman Sachs profited by marketing an investment [more...]
Beastly Wall Street must be tamed Wall Street is a beast. And proud of it! In fact, a pair of animals are the stock market’s longtime symbols: One is a snorting bull, representing surging stock prices; the other is a bear, representing a down market [more...]
Which way will the Supreme Court swing? In the end, it doesn’t really matter. The nation held its collective breath and turned not just blue but a veritable rainbow of colors as the Supreme Court spent a goodly part of two days hearing oral arguments [more...]