I sat down and wrote that headline about Herman Cain on or around Oct. 15. Within a couple of minutes of starting the blog, I got a phone call about my mother’s declining health, and so the last seven weeks or so have been a blur as I did my best to help out...
(This is the conclusion of the segment on America’s corporate royalty.) Like so many things these days, the sad truth is that there isn’t likely to be any widespread embrace of radical changes to tax policy or corporate remuneration until it’s way too late for the embrace to make much of a difference. Millions...
I am a little fuzzy on what the Wall Street protest demonstrations are all about, though I suspect it’s merely the quite understandable and justified rage of a populace feeling powerless, overwhelmed and screwed all at the same time. It certainly wouldn’t surprise me if what is really sticking in everyone’s...
Though I am sure a vast group of zealots on the far right side of the political spectrum would disagree, the seemingly exponential growth of the Religious Right has ill served both that particular group and the nation as a whole over the last two decades or so. I would contend that the hideously...
I’ve wondered for several years now how the Republican Party could seemingly embrace a philosophy that was largely based on antagonism toward Social Security. This seemed so completely antithetical to conventional wisdom that suggests the Social Security crowd is such a political behemoth that it is not to be trifled with under any circumstances....
(This is the second and concluding segment of “Is free speech really overrated.”) With the expansion of cable television and the attendant stultifying silliness of network fare has come the ungovernable opportunity for every nutcase to have his 15 minutes of fame, leaving a landscape of mind-numbing inanity for all to ponder. The fragmenting...