Reading time – 39 seconds . . . Before the New Deal millions of Americans spent their later years, when they were no longer able to earn a wage, in abject poverty. That’s a key reason Social Security was created. We seem to have forgotten about all that suffering of our elderly. Before Medicare millions… [read more]
Anyone?
Reading time – 47 seconds . . . Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is making all the right moves to play in the Big Game. Over the past few years he has slashed support for state workers, those leaches on society who do unnecessary things, like plow snow from the highways, supply clean drinking water and… [read more]
An Open Letter to Sarah
Reading time – 32 seconds . . . Hi Sarah, it’s me. We heard you announce that you’re looking into running for the Republican nomination to be President of the United States. That really should come as no surprise to anyone remotely familiar with you as the half-term former governor of Alaska who quit when… [read more]
We’re Solving The Wrong Problem
Reading time – 119 seconds . . . Nobody on the right, left or center disputes that a primary job of our federal government is national defense, ensuring our security in a dangerous world. ISIS or ISIL or Islamic Caliphate – whatever you want to call it – has incrementally and brutally plunged the Middle… [read more]
Your Freedom
Reading time – 49 seconds . . . For our absolutists . . . You’re an absolutist and you believe fervently in individual liberty. You don’ need no stinking gub-mint messing with your life. It seems that we have a national epidemic of “You can’t tell ME what to do!” causing uncontrolled inflammation of amygdalas… [read more]
A New Hope For Republicans
Reading time – 39 seconds . . . The Republican Party has fractured along the “it’s your fault” lines and each faction is devoid of any characteristics of the Eisenhower Republican Party. It was Eisenhower who proposed and promoted the now-crazy notion that there are a bunch of things that we need to do collectively,… [read more]
Breaking News
Reading time – 74 seconds . . . In what some are calling a bold move, President Obama held a press conference today and declared, “Political silly season is officially over. No more of it. Not on my watch.” Then he grounded all Republican extremists in Congress, mandating that they report to detention hall every… [read more]
Hogs and Bread
Reading time – 51 seconds Freshman Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) delivered one of five Republican responses to the President’s State of the Union address on January 20, 2015, and it’s a good thing she did. Mitch McConnell told us that she was the perfect person to deliver the establishment Republican rebuttal and, clearly, he was… [read more]
Empathy
Reading time – 31 seconds . . . Watch this video. Really, go ahead, click on the web link (not the bracelet) and watch this amazing piece from the folks at the Cleveland Clinic. For the longest time they have done miraculous things for patients in need at their award winning hospital and once again… [read more]
Piñatas
Ed. note: Please help – see the note below and pass this along so that we make the kind of difference that needs to be made. America thanks you. Reading time – 41 seconds . . . There they stand, the hopeful – hopeless? – wielders of sticks, lurching and whacking at the piñatas of… [read more]
