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 ...

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT IN THE NY TIMES!  

"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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHECK-IT-OUT Talking Points Memo puts it all together.  Nuff said.

The University of Washington tried to have a debate on the constitutionality of the new healthcare law.  They invited well respected law professors to participate in the debate but were unable to find even one to debate the position that the new law is unconstitutional.  Check out the full story in the Seattle Times. All the law professors on the panel agreed that the new law “passes constitution ...

The Republican Party is now utterly and completely the antigovernment party.  According to Republican NY Times columnist, David Brooks, “It’s a party that sees modest efforts to improve Americans’ economic and health security not merely as unwise, but as monstrous. It’s a party in which paranoid fantasies about the other side --- Obama is a socialist, Democrats have totalitarian ambitions --- are ...