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December 2005



THE WAGES OF FEAR

Friday, 30 December 2005 11:45 A GMT-07
I've done a number of blogs on how the Bush cabal in Washington has used fear to manipulate the public into letting them do whatever they want to do. But there is a price that we have paid. The wages of fear are fearful.

IRAQ VOTE: "SHIPWRECK OF BUSH HOPES"

Thursday, 22 December 2005 4:25 P GMT-07
The elections mark the final shipwreck of American and British hopes of establishing a pro-Western secular democracy in a united Iraq. In fact though billed by Mr Bush and Mr Blair as the birth of a new Iraqi state, the elections may in fact prove t

THE WAY OUT - NEGOTIATE

Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:42 P GMT-07
What course should the U.S. follow in Iraq?  On the surface, there has not been a really hopeful course of action proposed. Now, at long last, a much more hopeful way to extricate ourselves from the Iraq quagmire seems possible. It's time to seriou

THE REAL CHRISTMAS SCANDAL

Friday, 16 December 2005 4:25 P GMT-07
Right wing pseudo-Christians think that opposing abortion and gay marriage are the only issues that are a test of Christianity. They pretend to follow Jesus Christ but ignore his overriding concern for the poor.
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DILBERT DOES D.C.

Wednesday, 14 December 2005 2:40 P GMT-07
Two men with important connections to the Bush administration have recently gone on record with strong criticisms of the blundering Bush administration.  One is Col. Larry Wilkerson who was Colin Powell's Chief of Staff during George W.'s first term

MEET "OPERATION OFFSET"

Tuesday, 13 December 2005 2:10 P GMT-07
If the Bush administration and the GOP controlled Congress have their way the poorest Americans will pay for the damage done by Hurricane Katrina.  Following that disaster we heard Bush uttering promises about what the federal government would d

EFFECTS OF ONE-PARTY RULE

Monday, 12 December 2005 3:09 P GMT-07
The framers of our Constitution so feared the dangers of unchecked power inherant in one-party rule that they went to great pains to design a system of checks and balances to act as a brake on the power of the executive branch. Yet, today, the power

HEALTH ECONOMICS 101

Friday, 9 December 2005 3:38 P GMT-07
Economist Paul Krugman provides a lesson in economics on why our present inadequate and ineffective healthcare system doesn't work and why there is an urgent need to replace it with a national, universal, single-payer health insurance program.
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MEDICARE DRUG PLAN: SO BAD IT'S SURREAL

Thursday, 8 December 2005 5:03 P GMT-07
The Medicare drug bill was devised by people who don't believe in a positive role for government. An insistence on gratuitous privatization is a byproduct of the same ideology. And the result of that ideology is a piece of legislation so bad it's alm

SENIORS DUNKED BY DOUGHNUT

Wednesday, 7 December 2005 2:55 P GMT-07
The official government handbook on the changes to Medicare announces, "Everyone needs to make a decision about Prescription Drug Coverage." As confusing and complicated as the new program is, that decision will not be easy for most people.

NEEDED: A SANE IMMIGRATION POLICY

Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:11 A GMT-07
When a government policy becomes so divorced from reality that it hurts everyone it touches and even undermines the national interest, usually three factors prevent it from being scrapped: prejudice, ignorance and inertia.

LIVES OF TERROR AND FEAR

Sunday, 4 December 2005 12:10 P GMT-07
The lives of terror and fear, not to mention dehumanized working and living conditions, that I'm referring to here are not in Iraq or Afganistan.  Nor are they the result of some natural disaster such as the tsunami in SE Asia or hurricane Katrina.
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