We are faced with the necessary conditions to make the state, and its role of protecting its citizens from any number of dangers to their rights and well-being, irrelevant.
Enough Scandal and Hoo-Hah. How About Some Real Patriotism? We are faced with the necessary conditions to make the state, and its role of protecting its citizens from any number of dangers to their rights and well-being, irrelevant.
Solve America’s Fiscal Problems In One Simple Step Want to straighten out the nation’s finances, eliminate poverty, and end the income tax?
Conservative DC Court Throws the Country into Chaos on a Technicality This has been a fine example of rigid, right wing ideologues adopting what could be called the Samson Option—causing incredible damage, and perishing in the attempt, just to make a point.
The NRA’s Lie About Guns, the Constitution, and History In the old days the NRA did their job by emphasizing hunting and gun safety, but I guess that didn’t sell enough units for their constituency–gun manufacturers
The NRA and the GOP: The Right Goes Down in Flames Faced with 27 coffins in Newtown, Ct.– 20 of them tiny—the NRA president and his Republican friends displayed the worst tin ears in American politics.
Romney’s Tax Secret: 1500 Percent Profit Using TARP Funds to Ship Delphi Jobs Overseas The investment used TARP funds in part to ship at least 25,000 jobs overseas and short-change pensioners. Republicans then blamed it all on the Obama Administration
What to Tell Your Right Wing Friends When They Blame the Benghazi Bombing on Obama The Islamic element in the Arab countries is strong because the dictators used the mosques as (they thought) safety valves
Four More Reasons to Vote Obama The party that gets more of their voters to the polls, convinced to vote for their guy, wins. Period.
Great Reasons to Vote For Obama Whether You Like him or Not This country can’t afford any more Republican governments steering the ship of state on the rocks.
Post Office Privatization is Probably a Huge Real Estate Deal The deal could be used as a template for other privatizations—your local Board of Education, for instance.
SAILING First we are merely
sailing by stars
that have
always stood before us.
ALEXANDER BEFORE THE GRANICUS Apollo offers me a name
and glory
if I but endure
the unendurable…
POETRY The poem arrives
and whispers.
If you listen,
it takes you
to the heart of things.
FIFTY-TWO I feel unchanged
these fifty-two years,
though at times
I barely recognize
the man in the mirror
HOW ARE YOU? I have no opinion
about life.
I am alive.
TO THE WHITE GODDESS I see her eyes
in other women’s eyes
even as your eyes appear
in her eyes.
ASTIR On the far ridge,
the poplar grove
is that delicate hue
of budding out
TAM When God was done with you
I closed your eyes…
Timothy Leary and the Baby Boom There’s little doubt that he is a seminal figure for the worldwide Baby Boom, whether ex-Flower Children, older, wiser, and fatter, like it or not.
Loosed Upon the Sea On October 27, 1812, three American warships weighed anchor and sailed into history.
A grant or advance is necessary to finish the research for this book about the Naval War of 1812. Read the preface, the outline, and a market analysis here.