I am Not a Scientist
I am not a scientist, and apparently the Republicans are not scientists either. The trendy new way of declaring disbelief in climate change is to euphemistically say, “I’m not a scientist”, as if this...
View ArticleWho goes to prison?
The ancient Scythian philosopher, Anacharsis, was reported to have remarked cynically that “Law’s are like spiders web; they hold the weak and delicate who are caught in their meshes, but are torn to...
View ArticleStop The Madness!
For years, liberals and libertarians alike have been calling for budget cuts from our bloated defense budget and for an end to our imperialist misadventures overseas. Defense commands a whopping...
View ArticleMyths of Tea Party Saints
“Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.” Can you guess who said that? It sounds like it could be any contemporary progressive who understands the constantly evolving...
View ArticleCafeteria Science: Picking and Choosing Scientific Facts
In my recent article I Am Not A Scientist, I discussed the anti-science mentality that seems to plague so many contemporary politicians of modern America. Somehow, the non-controversial fact of climate...
View ArticleObama's Latest Wall Street Insider
Seven years ago, as our economy was collapsing in on itself after decades of deregulation and limited governmental oversight on Wall Street, Barack Obama ran his presidential campaign on change from...
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Psychopaths of Wall Street
Since Gordon Gekko and Patrick Bateman embraced the American psyche towards the end of the twentieth century, there has been a sort of subconscious belief that psychopathic behavior and working on...
View ArticleEric Garner - Even the Right Wing Agrees
The Grand Jury’s decision not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the officer responsible for Eric Garner’s death, has heightened an already fierce outrage with police in this country. So soon after the...
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His Majesty, Barack Obama
Its official, the Republicans have completely lost it. President Obama’s announcement of his planned executive order on immigration last week has brought out the truly paranoid nature of the right...
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Spending bill's attack on environment is just the beginning
The future of humanity is looking pretty grim. Last nights “bi-partisan” spending bill announcement revealed some unfortunate news for many liberal causes. These include some big bank deregulation, an...
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The Koch Brothers: Fanatic Billionaires Funding a Dangerous Myth
Earlier this year, Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries and libertarian billionaire, wrote an Op-Ed for the Wall Street Journal, in which he described the gist of his philosophy: anti-collectivism,...
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Racism and Radicalism Dividing America
President Obama has never been shy in praising Abraham Lincoln. He has declared him his favorite president, quotes him regularly in speeches, and even published a hand written essay last year about...
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The Road to Plutocracy
Towards the end of the second world war and a decade into New Deal reform, Austrian philosopher F.A. Hayek published his now famous political polemic, The Road to Serfdom, which argued that economic...
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Dick Cheney: The Reasoning of a War Profiteer
After being voluntarily water-boarded, the late Christopher Hitchens wrote in his article, Believe Me, Its Torture: “You may have read by now the official lie about this treatment, which is that it...
View ArticleWhose Freedom, Mr. O'Reilly?
Earlier this year, Bill O’Reilly had Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on his program to discuss some of the policies Sanders would have as president. In his usual antagonizing fashion, O’Reilly talked...
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Necessary Debate: Has Aggressive Policing Lowered Crime in NYC?
Last Saturday, at the funeral of Rafael Ramos, one of the New York Police Officers murdered by a lone gunman a week earlier, hundreds of NYPD officers watching Mayor DeBlasio's eulogy on a screen...
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Today's Financial Deregulation And Tomorrow's Inevitable Crash
Back in 1999, when the United States Congress was about to pass one of the most destructive bills of financial deregulation in our time, the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, Democratic Congressmen John Dingell...
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Subsidizing Environmental Degradation
Merriam-Webster, defines “subsidy” as: “Money that is paid usually by a government to keep the price of a product or service low or to help a business or organization to continue to function.”As of...
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Capitalism's Unsustainable Future
It is every politicians nightmare: economic stagnation, or worse, economic contraction. An anemic economy where voters lose their jobs and feel that very human need to blame someone with an apparent...
View ArticleOn Religious Extremism and Literalism
In a surprising 2013 survey done by the Pew Research Center about the Muslim world, many countries in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and North Africa were found to have majority support for Sharia...
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