Month: January 2009

Deep Thought

The conservative position on poor women: No birth control for poor women. No abortions for poor women. Inadequate health care for poor women and their children.

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It’s time to repossess the banks

The NYT’s came out with an article Sunday that posed the question:  Should the government nationalize the banks?  Natually, our fearful leaders danced around the question of nationalization, fearing right wing...

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Obama’s Aggressive Environmental Thrust

With several strokes of Obama’s executive pen, he did more this morning for environmental policy in a few minutes than Bush did in eight years. President Obama directed federal regulators on Monday to move swiftly on an...

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Barack Obama’s Vietnam

(CROSS POSTED, W/OUT ANY OF THE REFERENCE LINKS, FROM MY NEW BLOG: AID & COMFORT) This week America’s 44th Commander in Chief will closet himself with the brass buttons and bow ties in order to formulate a plan for...

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