Appalling Number of Homeless Children in Public Schools
An article in the Washington Post online caught my eye recently. The topic was the number of homeless children and teens enrolling in public schools across the United States. Seems, for the 2011-2012...
View ArticleCongress: The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
The U.S. Congress has demonstrated a particular knack for giving itself black eyes this year. As if shutting down the Federal government and then nearly causing the nation to default on its debt...
View ArticleTexas Anti-Abortion Law: Should It Make The State Liable For Child Support?
I read an article a few days ago about the effect the new Texas anti-abortion law is having on the ability of Texas women to end unwanted pregnancies. Not surprisingly, it's getting much more...
View ArticlePaul Ryan: Crusader In The War On Poverty? Don't Bet On It.
When I heard last week US Rep. Paul Ryan was going to be interviewed by NBC about poverty in America, I had to chuckle. I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in Congress less interested in...
View Article"Professor" Limbaugh Explains Climate Science And The Global Warming Hoax
The first part of last week was unusually cold in most of North America. The reaction from the climate change deniers was predictable. They felt the Arctic chill when they stepped outside, or saw...
View ArticleWay Too Many Allowed To Vote? Conservative Commentator Thinks So.
I came across an article the other day which contained some remarks by conservative radio host, Bryan Fischer:“You know back in the day, the colonial period, you had to be a landowner, a property...
View ArticleOxfam Report: "Economic inequality is rapidly increasing in the majority of...
Oxfam has published a report about economic inequality entitled Working For The Few which everyone should read carefully. Trust me, it will be time well spent.The report describes an increasingly...
View ArticleA New Mitigation Strategy for Climate Change?
I read today that prayer events were held in Nevada and Utah asking the Almighty to provide more water for farmers and others in those drought-stricken states. I guess this is the new strategy for...
View ArticleMiddle Class and Poor Under Attack
Someday, historians will note the American decline began in the 1980s when wealthy conservatives figured out how to take policies designed to impoverish the middle class, wrap them in a sugar coating...
View ArticleNews from the Koch Republic - November 6, 2014
(Now that the Koch brothers and their conservative plutocrat allies have completed their acquisition of the U.S. Congress, adding the Senate to their portfolio and increasing their holdings in the...
View ArticleNews from the Koch Republic - November 7, 2014
The topic of Federal tax code reform was in the news today. Koch Republic employee (and GOP Rep.) Tom Price of Georgia had this to say: "Tax reform is absolutely imperative to get this economy...
View ArticleNews from the Koch Republic - November 8, 2014
Koch Republic spokesmen (and GOP Congressmen) John Boehner and Mitch McConnell teamed up in a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week. They started off by stating: "We are humbled by this opportunity to...
View ArticleNews from the Koch Republic - November 10, 2014
Today, Koch Republic employee (and GOP Senator) Ted Cruz decided to join the discussion about net neutrality. He tweeted: "'Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not...
View ArticleNews from the Koch Republic - November 11, 2014
Koch Republic spokesman (and GOP Senator) Mitch McConnell had this to say about the EPA regulations which focus on curbing carbon pollution: “I fully intend to do everything I can do to fight these...
View ArticleNews from the Koch Republic – November 12, 2014
The Koch brothers spent roughly $300 million during the 2014 election cycle and came away with control of the Senate and a stronger grip on the House. Pretty cheap investment when you're worth over $85...
View ArticleNews from the Koch Republic - November 13, 2014
This appeared in an article in yesterday's New York Times: Congressional Republicans intend to present a plan to overhaul Medicare, calling for voucherlike "premium supports" to steer people 65 and...
View ArticleNews from the Koch Republic – November 15, 2014
Washington is buzzing with speculation about what executive actions President Obama might take on the immigration front. Yesterday, Koch Republic employee (and GOP Rep.) Steve King refused to: "take a...
View ArticleNews from the Koch Republic – November 16, 2014
The Koch Republic is still formulating its response to President Obama's expected executive actions on immigration. Koch Republic employee (and Senator-elect) Tom Cotton of Arkansas noted: I don't...
View ArticleWake-up Call to the GOP Establishment: Disband Your Angry Mob!
For decades, the Republicans have been working hard to build a constituency consisting of the wealthy, who are relatively few, plus those Americans most easily manipulated, who sadly are many. The...
View ArticleDonald Trump: The Face of American Fascism?
On August 13, 1920, Adolf Hitler gave a speech entitled “Why are we Antisemites?” to a large crowd of supporters at the Munich Hofbrauhaus. During the two hour speech, he was interrupted 58 times by...
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