New York Times columnist David Brooks recently published an article titled "Rift Opens Between Two Economies and Two Political Parties," (Sacramento Bee, April 11).

Some of his points are exciting: In recent years, the US economy has become vastly more productive. These efficiency gains ar… Read full post »

    

    

I can’t stand it any longer. I HAVE to jump into the fray about Obamacare. It’s the top of the news again, now that the Supreme Court is about to rule on its constitutionality.

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It’s becoming curiouser and curiouser. We now have at least one major presidential candidate who preaches the re-unification of Church and State. Rick Santorum has announced that the absolute separation of Church and State is nonsense (and that President K… Read full post »

By August 2012, the GOP has finally settled on its presidential flag bearer. He is Senator Newt Rontorumney. Here are a few excerpts of a conversation he conducted recently with famous TV interviewer Matt Lauer:

Lauer: "Senator Rontorumney, what do you propose to… Read full post »

I never anticipated the country’s unending rightward movement. When I went to school and taught as a professor, from the 1950s until recently, I assumed that progress, by and large, meant that society gradually becomes more just, more rational, more pragmatic, more democratic, and that… Read full post »

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By Tom Kando 

 

No day goes by without some article quoting an asinine politician who says something like this: "America is in danger of becoming a socialized welfare state, like those awful European countries such as Sweden, France, Germany or the Netherlands. "… Read full post »

 

 

By Tom Kando 

I have been re-reading American history. When I got to the 1920s and 1930s, it occurred to me how many similarities there were between that era and today:

The 1920s were an extremely conservative period, which is understandable since it was also a very prospero… Read full post »

 

 By Tom Kando

I was biking in the beautiful California Gold Country. The Green Valley Road meanders up and down 2,000 to 3,000-foot hills, through wild, scenic, wooded areas, occasionally flanked by a ranch. Very little traffic, clear blue winter sky. It’s 4:00 PM, the sun is… Read full post »

So now Egypt is starting its revolution. I hope that I am wrong, but the scenario is likely to be familiar:

Revolutions tend to evolve from moderate to radical. In France, moderates such as Mirabeau, Danton and the Girondins were followed by Robespierre, the Jacobins and the Terreur. In…

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