1. Does it provide for universal healthcare for every United States citizen? No. Ten million or more Americans will remain completely outside of our healthcare system once this bill becomes law. 2. Is there a plan to cover...
Starting sometime yesterday the people who have completely mismanaged and wrecked healthcare reform started making the rounds to some in the media trying to place blame for their possible titanic legislative failure on Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio because he...
I've not seen all of the nominated pictures, but I have seen most of them. There were some very good films out this year. What are your picks in the major categories and thoughts overall? Here are mine though because...
The aftermath in Hiroshima 1945. The set of photos below is just one very vivid example of what war really is: mass murder and destruction. I am posting them as a reminder to all of what war really is. It is...
I have nothing against the Colts and they may just win today's contest, but I'm cheering the Saints because I think it's their time, they have a wonderful, exciting team and they represent one of our greatest cities, if...
This is a reprise of a post I did a week or so ago, but I didn't realize I was posting it in the midst of a major spam attack so I don't think many people saw it. Thus, I'm...
Look what 30 years of Republican dominance and Democratic "bipartisanship" has yielded the nation on the Supreme Court: a set of hacks posing as judges carrying out not the law but the political program of their extreme, right...
This chart is all the more appalling because it is two years out of date! Obama just proposed a military budget for the coming year of $744 Billion! Just look at how extremely disproportionate US military spending is...
60 years of growing militarism in the United States has taken an extraordinary but rarely mentioned toll on what used to be the greatest democracy on earth. The Cold War presented the Military Industrial Complex with the opportunity to...
I got an e-mail from Jim Dean over at Democracy for America today. It's pretty damn interesting because it refutes with data the specious arguments of the corporate Democrats about needing to "pull back" and be more conservative as a...
Following is a very brief piece written by Michael Lind I just read over at Salon titled "The Tragedy of Obama". It says quite a bit in a very short space. I recommend it to all. Brief as it is, it...
Below is the lead of an article reminding us what Martin Luther King, Jr. was all about. It was more than "the dream" so trivialized and sanitized by repetition to the exclusion of what King's life work was...
I read somewhere not too long ago that Professor Howard Zinn is the greatest living American. Personally, I find that statement hard to argue with. He has spoken eloquently and acted decisively against war, against the abuses and excesses...
Earlier this year, the same corporate/DLC Democrats who have been calling the shots on alleged healthcare reform similarly shepherded though Congress and allged credit card reform bill. The bill was touted as finally protecting consumers from the worst practices of...
During his lifetime I heard my father give this blessing countless times. I share it this Christmas with all who are open to it and the spirit in which it is given. Gloria In Excelcis Deo! Go out into the world...
Above: the body of IWW organizer Joe Hill after his execution 94 years ago in 1915. I've been thinking a lot about how Americans today are being asked to "understand" that somewhere down the road they will get the...
I posted a comment a few days ago that Ramona and Flowerchild both requested I post on it's own so I am doing that here. In the original post about the different approaches of the two political parties the following question was...
It becomes clearer with each passing day that the legislation being labeled healthcare reform in both houses of Congress is really an industry sponsored special interest bill that isn't healthcare reform at all. Reid and Obama don't even refer to...
