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Thanks to Wall Street the Middle Class Needs a Bail Out

24th January 2012
Wall Street and Washington are cramming down the Middle Class. Unregulated banks are conspiring with real estate brokers and appraisers to drop the housing market, thereby destroying a major component of the life's savings of many Americans--their home. ... Read >

Fortunately Scott Walker Over Reached Enough to Wake Up America

04th January 2012
What I want to know is why all those Americans who keep shouting about the U.S. Constitution are not shouting about the loss of our rights of Assembly and Petition Government for Redress of Grievances. When my Grandson was 5 years old, he and I attend... Read >

A Father's Advice

29th November 2011
A friend recently noted in his Facebook status that he had received "a talking to" from his father for supporting the Women2Drive movement in Saudi Arabia. He clearly has no intention of backing down from his position that Saudi women should have many rig... Read >

Myth of Job Creation by Lower Taxes

21st June 2011
Job creation statistics do not support the Republican claim that lower taxes support job creation. Job creation under George W. Bush's administration, when Republican tax cuts were pushed heavily, created only 1.1 million new jobs. His dismal net job ... Read >

Are You Ready to Give Up Social Security?

16th June 2011
Republican enthusiasts have the mainstream media referring to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as "entitlements." Republicans are using this as a symbol, to mean that these programs amount to a kind of welfare for the American people. Wrong! Th... Read >

Who Suppresses and Oppresses Muslims?

04th April 2011
I have to admit that I get a little tired of hearing Muslims say how they are not treated well in the West. The Council on American-Islamic Relations ("CAIR") often emphasizes how unfairly Muslims are treated across the United States, rather than showing... Read >

Counter Protest to Westboro Baptist Church

01st April 2011
Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, U.S. Marine Corps, died defending the Constitution of the United States and all Americans. As a retired Marine myself, I am proud of Matthew for his service in which he made the ultimate sacrifice of his life. He is one of ... Read >

Libya Is a Success for Obama

30th March 2011
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have done a great job of handling the diplomacy necessary for the Libyan crisis, setting the stage for tectonic shifts in world affairs. In one stroke they have reset international expectations about the Middle East, and ... Read >

Republicans Unfairly Blame Baby Boom in Social Security Solvency Fight

23rd March 2011
Republican spin doctors want you to believe that Social Security is insolvent. They are using the usual strategy. Let's scare middle class Americans into doing something against their own economic interests. Conservatives want to blame the Baby Boom f... Read >

Bringing Down Despots with Economics

11th March 2011
Mohandas K. Gandhi at his spinning wheel used economics; the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at his pulpit used it; even Egyptian protesters at Tahrir Square in Cairo now use power economics as a weapon to bring down a government. How many Egyptians rea... Read >

Why Egyptians Should Demand Freedom of Religion in Their Constitution

08th March 2011
First among the Freedoms mentioned in the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the United States is the Freedom of Religion. Americans had good reason for putting it there! European colonization of North America was largely the result of religious warf... Read >

Civil Rights in the Constitution for Egypt

02nd March 2011
The five Freedoms of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States are the essence of the strength of the United States. The rights contained there allow us to build our country by a tempering process analogous to turning iron into steel. ... Read >

George W. Bush Ran Up the US National Debt

23rd February 2011
Conservatives have most Americans believing that they have a history of reducing our National Debt. The exact opposite is true. Every Democratic President since Harry Truman has reduced the National Debt, while only Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, ... Read >

10 Steps to a Basic Joomla Web Site

22nd February 2011
This article presumes that you already understand that you want to have a web site, how to find a host, and you are not afraid of to take on a few technical issues. I learned how to use JoomlaŽ like a newborn baby learns about its environment, so this ar... Read >