Not Robin Hood. Not Lionhearted. Just Wise.

I think the leeches are the people who benefit from the military fighting in the Middle East to ensure your supply of oil, the NIH studying flu viruses and developing vaccines, OSHA keeping their workplace safe, and the Department of Labor limiting their work hours to a manageable level. The people who drive over federally funded bridges and interstates and accept federal student grants, and then claim the federal government is unresponsive and worthless, and say they don’t want to contribute to it, in fact, say they want to take it apart and return us to some kind of backward Articles of Confederation when we agreed in 1789 that that was a dumb idea.

Dropping It

In competing with countries who have solid national health care systems, Americans have one hand tied behind their backs. Or maybe I’m wrong.

Fringe Elements

I’m not a Kennedy groupie. Before I started reading all these articles about Senator Ted and his accomplishments, I thought of him the same way I think of PETA: I agree with the agenda, but the reputation get my eyes rolling… why do they always have to look like such wackos? Then again, the extremists at PETA, while […]

Eric Cantor is an Average, Decent Republican

Rush Limbaugh doesn’t act like a grown-up. I guess that is not news. He is, as the Republican Party Chairman said, an entertainer. Entertainers don’t usually act like grown-ups. Grown-ups, of which we have very few in our world, don’t want people to suffer. People suffering kicks in their empathy. They suffer with people who are suffering. This […]