“In recent years, there’s been a significant shift to the right, and we have seen what that shift has produced: two losing presidential campaigns.  I think what the Republican Party needs to do now is take a very hard look at itself and understand that the country has changed.  The country is changing demographically.  And if [...]

“Some cell carriers have been complying with such requests, but they cannot be expected to continue to do so as it is outside the scope of the law.  Continued misuse by law enforcement agencies will undoubtedly backfire.” ~Nevada Training Manual Advisory  In a post 9/11 world – neither Republicans nor Democrats seem to care too [...]

This is a continuing problem in our tax code; corporations are using loopholes in our tax code to pay little to no taxes.  Except – they’re not really loopholes at all; these tax preferences and “loopholes” were written BY lobbying groups like the very powerful Business Roundtable or simply by paying off an important Congressman [...]

‘It’s over.  We’re done.  There will be no deal.’ ~Jim Cramer  Jim Cramer is convinced the country is going to go over the fiscal cliff where every American will see their taxes raised and major spending cuts take affect on January 1st which will lead to tens of thousands of layoffs nearly immediately.  Cramer things [...]

Know-nothings who pass off their ideology as a new conservatism really should get an honest job. Meanwhile, our military tries planning for a future already challenged by a degraded environment. Questions of revising military responsibilities should be part of the larger strategy of drawing back wasted money from the military budget. Instead of funding assault [...]

“Some gays are actually having children born to them.  It’s not right on paper. It’s not right in fact. Every child has a right to a mother and father.” ~Mitt Romney  In 2003 – when Romney was Governor – the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage was legal.  If you can have gay marriage [...]

“I think we need a change. I believe that we need a leader that’s pro-individual, that’s pro-business, and recognizes that there’s no free lunch anywhere. There has never been anyone in history that has proven a free lunch works.” ~Bob Benmosche, CEO of AIG  Bob Benmosche became the CEO of AIG in 2009 after the [...]

Now – most people who actually pay attention to politics closely might consider the question “Is Mitt Romney dishonest?” absolutely hilarious, but unfortunately – most Americans really don’t pay attention to the day to day.  In fact – whoever is undecided at this point is almost exclusively a “low information” voter.  So – when Mitt [...]

I post articles with some frequency about Medicare fraud, healthcare fraud. The articles that reach the surface of the scum sitting atop American healthcare practices generally concern individual physicians, the odd cluster of group practice thieves, scumsuckers who feed off the lives of ailing and dying Americans. President Obama’s lead on digitizing medical records and [...]

Mitt Romney has served on the Board of Directors for Marriott International Inc. for 19 years – eleven of those he was on the audit committee and 6 of those he was the chairman of that committee.  It is now known and the IRS has ruled that these tax maneuvers were simply tax avoidance schemes [...]