The GOP’s de facto nominee-in-waiting Mitt Romney has been trying on his war face, belittling President Barrack Obama’s decision to kill Osama Bin Laden, promising to expand defense spending, and talking tough about Iran. Last March, he wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post warni… Read full post »

To hear Republicans, President Barack Obama distrusts American businesses and corporations. This, of course, makes the president an un-American socialist or, worse, a communist. I seriously doubt Obama is anti-corporation, but if it were true, historically he would be in good company.

 Our Foun… Read full post »

In the past few weeks, we have seen two events that to me are a microcosm of what’s wrong with this country today. First was the gunning down of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The second was Dick Cheney getting a new heart.

 Both, I believe, are symptoms of a nation that has… Read full post »

Like something out of a western novel, dozens of angry Native Americans try to keep greedy white men out of their native lands. Another Old West drama plays out hundreds of miles to the south, as greedy oil barons steal land from farmers and ranchers.

Only this isn’t happening in… Read full post »

In late 1973, I was a young Coast Guardsman assigned to a new duty station at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. It was during the oil crisis of 1973-74, ostensibly caused by an oil embargo of the United States by OPEC nations. The entire nation was forced to… Read full post »

“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

Sinclair Lewis 

American Writer (1885-1951)

            Many years ago, when I was young police reporter, a cop friend of mine told me: &ldquo/… Read full post »

            The New York Times recently published two pieces shedding light on the most mysterious – and, to Democrats, the most frustrating – fact of American political life: that those conservative-voting “red” states co/… Read full post »

             – Multi-millionaire Warren Buffet

        &… Read full post »

“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Matthew 19:24

Apparently, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker credits God in his war on the working class in his state. While running for… Read full post »

It is obvious now there is a full court press by Republicans across the country to destroy organized labor among public employees. To hear the GOP, these public servants – teachers, fire fighters, police officers, public works employees, criminal justice workers, etc. – are some sort of p… Read full post »

          The Radical Right must be having a cow just now. After 18 days of peaceful protest, the people of Egypt have brought down an authoritarian oligarchy that has ruled the country for the benefit of the rich elite for 30 years.  The Bushes, Chen/… Read full post »

           The debate over whether gays should serve openly in the military is finally over. It took far too long to conclude. There will still be naysayers who believe allowing gays to serve openly will lead to chaos among the troops. Many said racia… Read full post »

Dear Mr. President,

Let’s get this out of the way. I voted for you. I contributed money to you. Now I want you to be what I thought you would be –  a leader.

Your performance since your election has been something less than many of us expected. It isn’t that… Read full post »

                The right-wing is having a hissy fit over the cost of the federal payroll.  A recent report in that that paragon of American journalism, USA Today — also known as the newspaper for people with short/… Read full post »

             Like many other Harry Potter fans, my family rushed out to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the first of a two part rendering of the last book in J.K. Rowling’s  wonderful series about youthful wiza… Read full post »

           George Bush dropped a dime on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in his purported memoirs, Decision Point. Bush wrote the book in much the same way he wrote his college term papers, by plagiarizing previously published works. Its one no… Read full post »

Hi. My name is Alex. I’m a cat. That’s right, a cat. Meow meow, purr purr. My Dad writes this blog. I like to sit on his laptop when he’s not using it because it’s warm. But when I do, Mom and Dad ask me if I’m working on my blog./… Read full post »

Commercials are running now for Sarah Palin’s new TV reality series called “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” set to premier Nov. 14.

 Wait. There are two problems with that sentence.  First, I doubt Alaskans, whose opinion of Palin is as low as Mt. McKinley is high, would like… Read full post »

I remember a column I read in the Eighties in which the writer took to task a woman, a Reagan supporter, who complained her son could not afford to attend college because low interest college loans were no longer available. Ronald Reagan campaigned on cutting social spending, the columnist reminded h… Read full post »

Tea Party candidate Rick Iott’s dress-up play as a Nazi  SS officer rightly stirred uncomfortable feelings in many Americans. Not that the WWII re-enactment group he belongs to is pro-Nazi; they’re not. But 80 years ago, in the years leading up to WWII, many members of the Republican/… Read full post »

I cringe every time someone says government should be run like a business. A former business journalist, I have had the opportunity to study the inner workings of Corporate America, and I know the one secret that businessmen and conservative politicians would rather you not know: Most American busine… Read full post »