Category: News and Views

For the past few weeks observing current events has felt like watching one of those Hollywood thrillers about a runaway train hurtling at breakneck speed towards utter destruction while a small group of regular people engage in a desperate effort ...

Over the past few weeks as the debt ceiling crisis captured the attention of official Washington and most of the chattering class, the world economy has continued its global decline. From the U.K., to Greece, Spain and now Italy ...

If you ask the average person in the U.S. if they believe in democracy, more often than not you'll get an unqualified yes - ask the same person if they believe in social democracy and more often than not they'll ...

Stu-pid: (adj.) acting in an unintelligent or careless manner; marked by or resulting from unreasoned thinking or acting; not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily, 'the child, who was once thought to be just stupid, was discovered ...

Mirror: something that provides a true representation of a thing by reflection. Whether or not we care to admit it, our current state of paralysis-producing-political-polarization is a true representations of the conflicting visions of this country that have existed from ...

Well it's Friday, July 15th - Decision Day according to Pres. Obama - as the daily D.C. drama over the debt ceiling quickly reaches its denouement - the twists and turns and moments of high drama (D.C. style) are better ...

Okay, so I admit, I've been almost apoplectic over the past few days watching the dangerous farce going on in D.C. over increasing the debt limit. The fact that a traditionally routine legislative activity has been turned into a weapon ...