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What Are We To Think?

The most prosperous country in the world and we can't see past $5.15 as a wage.

Another Clarion Call From the House of Shame

Not satisfied by merely putting off a meaningful minimum wage increase for another three years, the House insists on the quid pro-quo of immediate relief of the estate tax.

A Nation of Law, Unless It’s Inconvenient

The Bush administration believes if a law is inconvenient for them, Congress ought to change it.

Privatizing the Public Pocket

This was the administration that was going to revolutionize government by privatizing damned near everything and they’ve made a pretty good move in that direction.

Congress Bravely Salutes the Flag of Expedience

In all their majesty, the House and Senate have drawn their shrinking reputations up to full height, cleared their money-grubbing throats, considered with terror the upcoming fall elections and given us a law that serves no one.

Why Detroit Doesn’t Deserve to Survive in Automobile Manufacturing

Fifteen years or so ago, General Motors talked enthusiastically about developing electric cars. Talk was cheap, but the car wasn’t. The fifty or so that ever saw wheels on the road cost about half a mil each.

Maybe Time to Take Another Look at the Military Draft

Yeah, I know, nobody wants it and it took us long enough to get rid of it after the 2nd world war. But it’s just not fair to keep fighting our wars with the National Guard, a force that was never meant to be doing what it is currently asked to do.

Didn’t Martha Go to the Slammer for This?

Martha paid the price of ‘a well-timed stock sale’ and yet some two thousand companies manipulated the stock options they regularly granted to executives. The scam involved back-dating options.

Resurrect J. Edgar Hoover

He wasn’t a perfect guy. He was gay in a time when gay meant nothing more than high-spirited merriment and he angered his share of presidents. All of them, actually. But he knew how to run the FBI and no one these days seems to have the knack of that.

Taking His Name in Vain

But there is a somewhat frightening organization gaining power today in the military, Called The Officers' Christian Fellowship. A second abuse (in my view) by the evangelical Christian movement in America is the refusal of believers to practice pharmacy or medicine independently of their religious views.