DEAR JOHN MCCAIN

Senator, our fathers both fought in World War II on foreign lands --- and many of their friends sadly lost their lives far from home.  So many fought for so long and so fiercely in order that no dictatorship or police state demanding "papers please" could ever be established in our land. In 1946 Pastor Martin Niemoller gave a speech in Frankfurt, Germany trying to gain an understanding of how in ...

ARIZONA — SIEG HEIL?

Okay, it’s pretty bad for Arizona when even Tom Tancredo says Arizona’s anti-immigrant “show me your papers” law is wrong.  TOM TANCREDO?!? --- the ranting Mexican-hating, former congressman from Colorado!  (Tom is most recently infamous for the following sentiment delivered at a Tea Party:  “The President should be sent ‘back’ to Kenya.”)  Add to that:  Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s Morning J ...

CALIFORNIA PROP H8

We're proud to publish the following article by freelance writer, Wendy Andary.  Wendy has recently specialized in articles about travel, and has been published in Instinct magazine --- she was one of their Featured Contributors for April's Green Issue.   Wendy has done Public Relations writing for the California Democratic Party and plans to do more soon in her role as a community activist.  Wend ...

AGAINST ALL GOVERNMENT!

"Hands off our freedom to let our houses burn down!"   Tea Partiers, and many other Americans even on the left, have a real problem with the TARP bailout that George W. handed out at the end of his presidency to the financial institutions.  It’s just so simple to say that if a bank is in trouble just let it fail, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, asserts.  That would feel good, and it do ...

CHANGE IS NOT EASY

Change is a lot harder than many of us thought it would be.  After the election it seemed as if the culture of our country had turned the corner for good --- the majority was ready for change, the election declared! I don't know about you, but I'm weary already, and it hasn't even been a year and a half into this presidency.  I thought, ridiculously as it turned out, that the Republicans would ha ...

PARTY OF “NO”

We keep hearing that the Republican Party is the party of “no” and that they have no ideas.  That’s a truly dangerous assertion.  They have ideas and policies, all right, and we have seen their disastrous consequences in action.  Republican ideas and policies are very well-known:  deregulating Wall Street privatizing Social Security  eliminating Medicare oil solutions for our energy crisis ...

MORNING IN AMERICA?

We first used this graph several months ago.  Just couldn't pass up the opportunity to post the updated version showing job growth!  An important part of the good employment news is the growth in the service sector.  According to an article by the Associated Press today, "The U.S. service sector grew in March at its fastest pace in more than two years, suggesting the economic recovery is expandi ...

THAT’S JUST SAD

Well that’s just sad.  Our economy has just shown the first real employment creation in over three years, and all the Republican politicians have to say is, bah-humbug.  It is looking more and more like the Great Recession (which happened under W’s leadership) is now in our national rearview mirror.  This is a hopeful time and a cause for American celebration.  Even the conservative newspaper, The ...