There are no free lunches.  If you cut spending on teachers today – you have horrible students and thus an uneducated workforce in the future.  And that creates a loss in economic growth, prosperity and opportunity.  Anyone could gut the budget today and make it balanced.  You could do that at home.  Most people have [...]

“You know, in the past, when people pointed out that something was inaccurate, why, campaigns pulled the ad.  They were embarrassed. Today, they just blast ahead. You know, the various fact checkers look at some of these charges in the Obama ads and they say that they’re wrong, and inaccurate, and yet he just keeps [...]

I hope no one in Washington harms themselves whilst patting each other on the back for this belated attempt at reparations for crimes committed in the name of the United States. The Leaders of the Free World demonstrated a disdain for humanity in Southeast Asia easily matching the worst of European colonialism. I expect you [...]

This is how you steal an election.  Rachel Maddow covers the rules in Ohio behind all of this.  There is simply no acceptable reason to limit pre-voting hours from 8 to 5pm Monday through Friday (no weekends).  This isn’t in all of Ohio – just the counties that vote for the Democrat party; the counties [...]

“I apologized to everyone. I think we all made mistakes and we addressed them and we’re through that and we’re moving on.” ~CEO and Founder Susan Brinker  The fallout from Susan G. Komen comes after a highly publicized and politicized decision to remove funding from Planned Parenthood.  Conservatives have been on a mission to limit [...]

There is a constant pattern with Mitt Romney … he’s the most nontransparent political candidate in modern history.  He used tax loopholes and offshore tax shelters to “rip off” Italian citizens with Bain Capital’s purchase of the state owned version of “The Yellow Pages” making a cool $1 billion in just two years and avoiding paying [...]

“Conservatives” are so outside of the mainstream of what Americans actually believe.  They won in 2010 thanks to a very excited Republican base who are convinced President Obama’s healthcare law was socialism with death panels and he was born in Kenya but he’s also a Muslim secretly conspiring to destroy America.  And Democrats were sipping [...]

“To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Gov. Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care.  There are a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in President Obama’s economy.”  ~Andrea Saul, President Romney’s Spokesperson  A rare moment of honesty from the Romney campaign.  Yesterday – [...]

It’s a long article filled with tales that now seem to be part of daily life in our tawdry economy. Giant corporation is fined for sleazy practices – and a few years later the same accusations appear in a different portion of their business model. The whistleblower is fired. Little or nothing is done to [...]

There is this constant drum beat of disinformation by conservatives relative to America’s healthcare system.  America’s health care system SUCKS compared to so many others; there are some things that we do very well but that’s only if you can afford it.  And we know most can’t. A recent study by the Commonwealth fund compared [...]