We all have very high ideals and are desperate to see this country live up to its potential. That feeling is felt to the left and right of the spectrum. We want a sense of safety and security and sanity back, yesterday. ...
Government
43 The following article was written by veteran reporter Charley Reese and originally printed in the Orlando Sentinel. There is no date of publication, but Reese references an American population of 235 million, Ronald Reagan's deficits, Tip O 'Neill leading a Democratic majority...
The 545 People Responsible for All of Our Woes
I was laid off early last year from what had originally promised to be a rewarding, long-term opportunity with a Washington-area cable network. I blogged at the time about America's systemic dysfunction and lack of strategic focus indirectly leading to my dismissal,...
The “Not Me” Generation
The men who wrote the Constitution had a pretty straightforward plan to Provide for the Common Defense. Most new Americans viewed a standing army as a source of oppressive behavior at home and misanthropic behavior abroad, so opted for state militias and a navy...
Recrossing the Rubicon
I am happy to note that President Barack Obama continues to concentrate his political message on the idea that the left and right halves of American society, embodied mostly by a dysfunctional and partisan Congress but also at the grassroots...
Pax Americana
66 Very few things in life are as certain as political paradigms refusing to change absent massive, and sometimes violent, action by ordinary people in sustained grassroots efforts measured in decades rather than years. Electing Barack Obama didn't make that rule invalid. ...
“…go out and make me do it.”
"We have been told that we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant." - Barack Obama, New Hampshire Primary Concession Speech, January 8, 2008 So it was then and so it...
Preaching to a Choir of Cynics
Back during the heated days of the presidential primary race, just after I moved to Barack Obama when my first choice Dennis Kucinich dropped out, the whole "Obamabot" thing was born through the steadfast insistence of Hillary's more creative supporters. ...