How Can Everyone Be Right While At The Same Time Be Wrong?

The past couple of months have weighed heavily upon the nation’s common sense.  Solutions to reining in the nations unsustainable deficit problem have been glibly floated without even the simplest use of mathematics to confirm their proposed impact.  Other proposals sacrifice some segment of our society in order to make spending cuts, and still do [...]

General Custer’s Last Stand

I would bet that General George Custer might have chosen a different time to pursue those Indians at Little Big Horn if he had had another chance.  The GOP has achieved a similar distinction in Washington with its ideological battle over the deficit and debt.  While potentially noble in spirit, the tying the debt limit [...]

Crystal Clear

The New York Times reported that the Roman Catholic diocese in Orange County, California was negotiating to purchase from the Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the former evangelical “mega church”.  The reported bid was $50 million. At a time when the Catholic Church is closing inner city churches, and at the same time, going hard right (like [...]

Shameful but Deserved

In 2010, the nation turned out many Congressional (as well as many State wide)Democrats.  In their place, voters chose Tea Party and conservative Republicans.  This election was hailed as an example of voters speaking their minds.  I just wonder what language they were speaking? The 2010 election was mainly about jobs.  Democrats were described as [...]

Real Reform

Most polls are registering a very disturbing but unfortunately understandable trend.  Congress, the polls say, is totally dysfunctional and the two major political parties are viewed as almost worthless.  How can America extract itself from this quandary? Some say there is simply too much ideology in politics.  We need our representatives to be more pragmatic.  [...]

Norway’s Example

Over the weekend, the magnitude, horror, and ultimately the stupidity of senseless killings in Norway unfolded.  Over 90 people lost their lives.  The self confessed perpetrator claimed a long list of reasons but why these 90 people (not some others) was not one of them. Ironically the killer was a “christian fundamentalist” who claimed to [...]

The Republican Coalition

It is about time that we began to call a coalition, a coalition. The GOP is no longer a political party with a thinking core and some slightly divergent sub-caucuses.  Rather, the GOP is a convenient assembly of people who cannot call themselves Democrats.  But other than that, this GOP is a very low order [...]

The Barnyard Fable

The farmer broke the bad news.  The farm was running out of money.  The farm could no longer afford to buy the nice grain that the horses liked.  There also was not enough money to fill the pigs troth to overflowing as they had in the past.  There would need to be changes the farmer [...]

AARP To The Rescue

Have you seen the television commercials recently featuring senior citizens denouncing any attempts to cut Medicare and Medicaid?  On one, the tag line is “Mr. Congressman, what were you thinking?” I would expect soon to hear a commercial from Farmer Brown in Kansas warning us that there will be no beef when he loses his [...]

Back To The Future

Listening to the rebroadcast of Rupert Murdoch’s testimony before a select committee of Britain’s Parliament, one has the unmistakeable feeling of seeing history repeated. Murdoch sat there and said he did not know.  He did not know who made the mistakes.  He did not know even at what level mistakes were made.  But, he did [...]