Give us more Republicans in leadership with their supply-side solutions, and poverty is bound to creep into the diminishing middle class. We will see poverty levels not seen since the Great Depression.
Somewhere near the beginning of the 1980s, the small surge in trust came with the leadership of Ronald Reagan whose engaging and can-do personality gave Americans a lift, that is until deregulation led to the Savings and Loan debacle, which taxpayers bailed out...
Their ruling involved Albert W. Florence who was strip-searched after being wrongly detained over a traffic fine. In fact, the fine was already paid and he displayed an official receipt to officers who stopped him.
Fracking is linked to earthquakes, polluted well water, chemical poisoning, and caustic, sometimes flammable water coming out of faucets.
Colossal explosions and transformation of matter are often entertainment, military, or terrorist ventures in our contemporary world. They mostly represent things of destruction. Creation is something else: basically the concept that matter comes from nothing or is explained by Creation narratives in holy books. For older fundamentalist generations, such…
Perhaps that would change if Democrats, like Republicans, exclusively showered big oil with gifts of lower taxes, tax credits and exemptions, along with the freedom to pollute.
By OcJim I am appalled to see that at least a couple of members of our esteemed Supreme Court, whom we expect to be the bastions of objectivity, are openly repeating the most biased of the Tea Party type arguments against health care reform. Oral arguments by justices unfortunately…
By OcJim Like many others I thought the election of a black president marked the end of bias and racism in our country. Even the coded -- He’s not one of us – rather unsubtle suggestion, portrayed by birthers and Tea Partyers against Barack Obama might be seen as…
By OcJim The issue of energy policy seems to bring out the dippers, the deniers, and the dupes. James Inhofe, the Senator from Oklahoma, is a denier of climate change and an airplane dipper who last year landed his aircraft at the closed Cameron County Airport in Port Isabel,…
By OcJim If you wonder why you hate government, even while you receive social security payments, use Medicare for your ills, remain free from enslavement by foreign aggressors, drive on public roads, enjoy public-funded fire protection, drink reasonably clean water and breathe somewhat healthy air, rise above boring jobs…