You know you live in a great country when a candidate for Governor in South Carolina says that providing welfare for the poor is like feeding stray animals while John Travolta flies a planeful of supplies to Haiti. According to Andre Bauer -- he's the gubernatorial candidate -- handing out welfare promotes the unemployed and underemployed to breed like rabbits.  As an individual who was given free lunches i ...

‘What’s a Body To Do?  On the one hand there is a Special Envoy, who even used to be a General, saying that the military is not the way to win against terrorism in Afghanistan.  On the other hand, the president is freezing social programs at a time when they are the only things that really matter.  The country’s leader is making all the wrong decisions.  He is as bad as the devils we have known for nearly t ...

The Tohono O’odham Nation, which is located in Arizona on the Mexican border seems to be having a problem with drugs, immigrants, and federal agents. Which is worse is hard to determine. As with most wars -- in this case, the War on Drugs -- everyone is right. After all, everything is fair in love and war. The Mexicans who are bringing the marijuana across the border into the the Tohono O’odham Nation just ...

If corporations are people, then any special deals they get from the legislature are available to everyone. If corporations are people, then they can be charged and prosecuted for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. If corporations are people, then they can be charged and prosecuted for harassment, assault, and murder. If corporations are people, then we can put them in jail. Add your insights... ...

Department of Energy Hands Over Billions of Dollars to 'Poster Child for Cost Overruns' Nuclear Power Industry is Perfect Illustration of Why Taxpayers Are Saying "No More Bailouts!" - Billions for Plant Vogtle Reactors Impossible to Justify in Terms of Rising Financial Risks, Reduced Demand for Power, Cheaper Renewables and Huge Potential of Energy Efficiency ATLANTA, Dec. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fir ...

Remember that old song, “Looking for Love in all the wrong places?” That song kind of reminds me of what’s going on in D.C. these days.   No, I am not talking about the latest round of adultery.  I mean the latest “bi-partisan” effort to control the public debt.  Debt is not inherently bad.  It can, in fact, be sound fiscal policy.  When the economy is slow, the government can run up some debt by pumping mo ...

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In the harsh climate of postmodern America the old adage “Money talks” doesn’t suffice: money screams. With the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Citizen’s United v. the Federal Election Commission, a corporation’s right to sway elections with its wealth has essentially been granted part of its right to free speech, making this old turn of phrase a bitter reality. Many writers have pointed out some of the po ...

by Mitchel Cohen Two decades ago, the garbage barge, the Khian Sea, with no place in the U.S. willing to accept its garbage, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 tons of toxic incinerator ash. First it went to the Bahamas, then to the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Bermuda, Guinea Bissau and the Netherlands A ...

G.O.P. Senate Victory Stuns Democrats By Michael Cooper, January 20, 2010 BOSTON –Scott Brown, a little-known Republican state senator, rode an old pickup truck and a growing sense of unease among independent voters to an extraordinary upset Tuesday night when he was elected to fill the Senate seat that was long held by Edward M. Kennedy in the overwhelmingly Democratic state of Massachusetts. It shouldn’t ...