(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 15, 2019
Drugs, guns, and despair: How America is killing Americans American life expectancy has declined. There's no foreign invasion. No war within its borders. No one to blame but ourselves. How then, is America killing Americans? Most reports point to three things: drugs and alcohol, guns, and despair.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 31, 2018
Trump's trials and tribulations in 2019 In the last two years, the Republican majority has prevented any real investigations of Trump in Congress. In January, however, they'll be reduced to an impotent minority that can only whine and moan. Trump will do his best to hide behind the theory that a sitting president cannot be indicted. That will be challenged. Mueller, and everyone else, is moving up the chain.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 3, 2018
Trump might be leading the US to another meltdown The idea of working people making more money, and themselves, perhaps less, has zero appeal. The only thing left to do is change the rules. They know perfectly well they can enrich themselves selling rubbish. If they bring the house down, someone else will pay the cost. Hence, they push for deregulation which eventually will bring down the financial sector, as has happened before.

(21 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Neither Bolton, nor Trump is the real problem Bad as Bolton is, he is not the problem. Bad as Donald Trump, who brought him back, is, he's not the problem. The problem is "them" -- Republicans. Self-designated conservatives.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, September 5, 2011
It's time to end this silly farce of Labor Day. It's time to end this silly farce of Labor Day. No one celebrates labor. I mean no one. A few months back I suggested to Arianna Huffington that Huffington Post have a Labor section. They have business -- as do all major publications -- style, black, latino, green, religion, good news, travel, weird news, comedy, celebrity, parents -- but not labor. They have recipes, home, do it yourself, body, spirit, and...

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The Last Weiner This needs to be solved, this needs a real fix. We need a new combination, we need a new mix to save the world from men getting their kicks, and the news media full of nothing but pricks.

(14 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 1, 2011
RECOVERY, TAXES, GOVERNMENT SPENDING, AND ASTONISHING STUPIDITY The Republicans and their stooges continue to lie about the influence of deficits on the economy. This article details some of the reasons what Republicans are saying is untrue.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 22, 2011
The Class War Launched by America's Wealthiest Is Getting More Savage The wealthiest 1% could not make it any clearer- they are willing to destroy us all in their pursuit of wealth & privilege.

(30 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 11, 2010
Renewing the Bush Tax Cuts Is Like (this is a contest) losing all your money with Bernie Madoff, then convincing the rest of your family to break him out of jail so they can invest all their money with him too.

SHARE        Thursday, December 9, 2010
Weird Tax Myths #2 -" Recessions, Depressens & Tax Policy Tax hikes end depressions & recessions by stimulating the economy. Tax cuts cause crashes & lower the GDP rate of increase. The right wing passion for tax cuts is a bought & paid for propaganda service. If we fail to put in place sane tax policies we are heading for another crash.

(7 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 5, 2010
Weird Tax Myths MYTH #1: Tax cuts create jobs. Tax increases cost jobs. All Republican politicians, and many Democratic ones as well, make the claim that tax increases will prevent small business people from hiring. Indeed, it may force them to fire people. Alright, we expect politicians to say loony things. But we have a right to expect reporters to break out in hysterical laughter, economists to... to say how ridiculous that is...

SHARE        Saturday, May 2, 2009
An Ode to Spring (of Banks We Sing) Lo, yon derivative swaps have taken wing. 'Tis an ode to spring. 'Tis of banks we sing. Oh so recently, richly, wildly over-inflated, their lending rooms are now tightly constipated. But, "O Goldman," and also "O Sachs," know that the government has your backs, we'll restore your riches with an extra tax as you lobby to be sure regulations stay lax.

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 8, 2009
Time for Tax Hikes US economic growth has been strongest when our taxes have been high. During World War II, then under Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy, our upper marginal tax rates were between 88-92%. Read those numbers again. They are astonishingly high. Those were our strongest growth years.

(9 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 17, 2008
The Great Depression, The New Deal, World War II And What They Mean To The Crash of '08

(48 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 14, 2008
The God Series – Because Religion is The Battleground of the 21st Century The first in a series: #1 – WHY WE NEED TO STUDY GOD

(15 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 6, 2008
The Fall of a Free Market Prophet Ayn Rand and Alan Greenspan are "Objectivists" whose ideas have failed colosally, even by Greenspan's own admission.

(10 comments) SHARE        Monday, November 17, 2008
TAX CUTS: THEOLOGY, FACTS & TOTALLY F**KED The three worst economic disasters in American history follow the exact, same pattern. Tax cuts, boom, bubble, crash.

(9 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 2, 2008
THE NEW KNOW NOTHINGS It was Jesus Christ, if Matthew is to be believed, who said, "Love thine enemy." It is in that spirit that I write this belated valentine to Sarah Palin.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, September 15, 2008
Crash Course In Economics watching the economic news is like being in a car that is sliding on ice, where time seems to slow down as you watch the crash happen-- time slowed while we slid forward and sideways, heading onto the shoulder, then past it "-. it seemed as if we had all the time in the world, yet there was nothing we could do to get off the ice, alter the trajectory, slow down "- nothing "- until we crashed.

SHARE        Saturday, June 14, 2008
35 Reasons You Must Call (202) 225-5126 Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush. They were referred to the Judiciary Committee -- to die. That's too bad.