(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 13, 2012
Death Beyond Reason Why are the young dying in increasing numbers with no known cause?

(13 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 16, 2012
Looming Catastrophe: Demise of the Ogallala Aquifer The implications of the depletion of the Ogallala for mid-western farmland and the U.S. food supply are dire. It could also be a catastrophe for the geographic cohesion of the country.

(6 comments) SHARE        Monday, October 17, 2011
More Garbage Medical Headlines: Vitamin E and Prostate Cancer; Death from MultiVitamins One of their main conclusions, so important that it was included in the abstract, said that their results were not significant. Translated, that means that they were aware that they had proven nothing. You still with me?

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 4, 2011
That Giant Sucking Sound and East Coast Wealth: Will the U.S. Split Apart? Others have predicted that the U.S. will break apart due to internal tensions. Will it? It depends on how long the East Coast governing and capitalist classes will get away with enriching themselves while depleting the rest of us...

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 17, 2011
Cuba: Anomaly in the Caribbean Although we were warned not to talk politics with the locals, it seemed that everyone we met was willing to discuss the details of their lives.

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 4, 2011
TSA Solves Its PR Problem: No More Cameras! I've been through security in 3 countries and 5 airports in the past month. The U.S. compares poorly.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 12, 2011
Skepticism Grows. Who Did the Rambo Squad Really Kill? There is a lot of fuzz surrounding the murder of Osama Bin Laden by American troops. Why?

SHARE        Saturday, May 7, 2011
Elite Commandos or Assassins with Cameras? If it only took 25 commandos to get Osama, why have 5000 American soldiers - so far- died in the desert?

(5 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 2, 2010
Pres O: What the F" Don't You Get About Republican Intentions? You came out of the meeting with Republican leaders and stood in front of cameras saying that you were optimistic about compromise to improve serious domestic problems. They came out of the meeting saying that their base liked gridlock and they intended to maintain it. Were you at the same meeting?

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 23, 2010
The Mammography Controversy: Selling Out Women? Mammography has been over-hyped by the medical establishment and their big business backers, much to the detriment of the women who receive them..

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 17, 2010
True or False: "We Are All Responsible" Every few years we go to the polls and pin our hopes on a Rorschach ink blot shaped like a person.

(6 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 6, 2010
Supreme Court's Gift to Corporations: The U.S. Military With the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to allow corporations to overtly buy elections, the world as we know it may change forever.

SHARE        Saturday, December 12, 2009
Foxy Knoxy and the Flying Marines Is blowback the reason for the conviction of a 22 year old in Italy?

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 9, 2009
As GM Goes ... With the big manufacturers facing bankruptcy and the Bernanke, Geithner and Obama triumvirate feeling the need to shred the safety net, it's conceivable that the middle class slide will not end simply in a lower standard of living, but in poverty and civil unrest.

SHARE        Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Bernanke's Hammer As long as deposits are insured, banks are fungible- which is proven every day as U.S. banks go under and are seamlessly absorbed by the FDIC, deposits, debts and all, consumers usually none the wiser.

SHARE        Monday, February 23, 2009
The Stimulus and The Confidence Game Forget the stop-gap teensy tax cut drivel and permanently eliminate the payroll tax on everyone making less than $75,000 a year as well as on the vulnerable small businesses that provide so many jobs. That will put another 7.65% of personal earnings into the economy and give businesses another 7.65% of payroll to use as needed. Now that's a stimulus!

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 15, 2009
Gupta for Surgeon General? Geithner for Treasury? Obama for Irrelevance. The usual sequence is that we elect people who use their office to commit crimes and defraud us. This time we have the opportunity to get a jump on the time table with a Treasury Secretary whom we know in advance is a cheat.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 15, 2009
Requiem for Israel As a horrified world watches Israel demonstrate its military supremacy over a poor and unarmed population, something else is happening. If you listen closely, you might hear a sad death knell in the distance, and it isn't for the Palestinians. What we may be witnessing now is Israel's slow motion suicide.

(12 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Detroit vs. Wall Street: The Trillion Dollar Class War If anyone doubted that a class war is in progress, hidden beneath a variety of euphemisms, like 'bail out', 'downsizing,' 'outsourcing' and 'NAFTA', their doubts can now be given the decent burial that they deserve.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 22, 2008
Repairing the Congress – Citizen Disconnect Too often Congress makes clear that the wishes of the electorate aren't worth the cost of the ballots they cast.