On Living Up To Your Words, Or, Tornado? That’s Not In The Constitution
There are lots of big tough words coming out of our friends in the Tea Party these days, especially when it comes to the permissible functions of the Federal Government.”If it’s not specifically...
View ArticleOn Happy-ing Their Gilmores, Or, Will Body Bags Be The New Gold Watch?
We are continuing a recent theme here today in which two of my favorite topics are going to converge: Social Security and in-your-face political activism.I have been encouraging folks to take advantage...
View ArticleObama Wants To Attack The Middle Class? Take Congress Hostage!
By now you have heard that President Obama has chosen to throw Social Security and the Medicare and Medicaid Programs over the side of his proverbial fishing boat as bait to see if he can get...
View ArticleHitler Holds News Conference, Blames Balanced Budget Amendment For U.S. Defeat
(FNS - Washington, New Germany, April 17, 1947) America’s new Führer, Adolf Hitler, announced today that his official War History would in fact acknowledge that one of the biggest contributing factors...
View ArticleOn Running Your Own Government, Or, Why Pay The Military?
I have not been talking about the insanity around the debt ceiling and debt and deficit and the efforts of Republicans to drive us all off the cliff, but I am today – and I’m going to do it by...
View ArticleOn Speaking To Power, Or, When Sanity’s Gone, There’s Always Satire
So everybody’s hearing the news, right? There is a tentative debt ceiling deal, and this Administration and Congressional Democrats seem to have won everything they wanted: Republicans get to have...
View ArticleOn Organizing Anger, Or, Could Olbermann Primary Obama?
It was just a couple of nights ago that Keith Olbermann was challenging us, in one of his “Special Comments”, to rise up in the streets and take back this country.He pointed out that the only way those...
View ArticleOn Doing Better Than 50%, Or, Could More “Made In USA” Mean More Jobs?
We gotta grow some jobs, and that’s a fact, and we probably aren’t going to be able to do it with big ol’ jobs programs funded by the Federal Government, what with today’s politics and all, and that...
View ArticleFooled us once, shame on you, Scott Walker
Bloggers on the left have noted many similarities between Scott Walker and Nixon, and between Walker and Reagan. But another way to compare him is to George W. Bush. And in that comparison, a Bush...
View ArticleCRONY CAPITALISM: Wisconsin Democrats and especially Mary Burke have to get...
Where do Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), many Democratic Party leaders and voters, the entire "occupy" movement and a fast-growing base of political conservatives find almost unanimous ground?...
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