A thought for the overwhelming majority of you who are too young to have lived through the Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy assassinations of 1968:  The country was understandably and justifiably appalled at their murders and demanded we… Read full post »

On two fronts, we awaken to yet more reasons to love our federal government.  First, under direction of president Obama’s horribly chosen Secretary of Interior, Ken Salazar, long before the Gulf spill, the Interior department removed wolves in Idaho and Montana from the Endangered Species/… Read full post »

Perhaps I have inadvertently failed to make my sentiments clear (something I am often surely guilty of) about our ongoing wara efforts.  I have given at least one person the impression that I believe our wars are fully on the shoulders of President Obama. 

To clarify my stance in that… Read full post »

Remember Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the case in which the FFFs on the Supreme Court (write me in private if you want to know what that stands for, it’s vulgar, but I mean Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Scalia and Kennedy) essentially voted to say that corporations are people with… Read full post »

If you’ve been too busy following the heaviest U.S. coalition casualty month in the almost nine year long war in Afghanistan, or perhaps girding for the financial industry’s soon-to-be assault on regulatory reform, scheduled to occur afte...r the financial reform bill is presumably voted… Read full post »

Ross Douthat’s June 20 Op-Ed piece, The Agony of The Liberals, intimates that “liberals” are too harsh on Obama, who – after all – “shepherded universal health care, the dream of liberals… into law, “and also “staked the fate of the economy on Ke… Read full post »

A very long article in today’s NYTimes reveals that proper regulatory oversight on the part of Minerals Management Service (MMS) might have prevented something called the blind shear ram from failing, which - if it had done what it was supposed to - would have prevented the explosion and leak o… Read full post »

What - I’m not the only one?! It seems a consortium of scientists and environmental advocates, called WildEarth Guardians, has sent Mr. Obama a letter calling upon the president to fire Ken Salazar at Interior. The letter highlights not only Salazar’s abysmal non-monitoring (and some of u… Read full post »