Did you know that President Obama ordered to have a bust of Winston Churchill removed from the Oval Office?  That piece of information – phrased in those inflammatory terms – was sent to me by a reader who has had nothing but disdain for this president since his election.              This reader, and many […]

            Has anyone figured out exactly what the Tea Party stands for?  How did it even get to the point of requiring those upper case letters, as if it’s some kind of official political party?  Unless I’m missing something in the “breaking news” reports that the various cable news networks constantly deliver, the Tea Party […]

            It has not been a good spring for the proponents of economic deregulation.  Consider the following:             Item: Goldman Sachs has been accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of defrauding investors by creating a complicated bundle of toxic mortgage securities and then deliberately selling them to investors while secretly investing against the securities […]

“You are what you eat.” -Victor Lindlahr              If you think about the ultimate message of “Food, Inc.,” the Oscar nominated documentary from last year, you are likely to get extremely depressed.  Apart from condemning the current diet of most Americans, the film presents a vivid picture of how our lives are increasingly controlled by […]