Month: November 2011

This time Oakland police beat an Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran, a man who is a part ownerof a local Brew Pub. The police who beat him badly lacerated his spleen and didn’t provide him medical attention for 18 hours. And he...

Back in New York for a few days. One of my top agenda items was to visit OWS, so yesterday afternoon I took the subway to Fulton Street to see what it was all about. I didn’t really intend to make a diary out of it, but...

Recently I received a letter in the mail offering me a Capital One credit Card account. Capital One is the banking institution that (1) runs TV commercials with funny “barbarians” in them asking “What’s...

As I was driving down to Philadelphia last night I listened to the Mark Levin show on WABC out of New York. It was the first time I’ve listened to right-wing radio in a very long time. And it was a revelation. What I...

At 3 o’clock this afternoon the Senate rejected an effort on a motion to proceed to a vote on the Rebuild America Jobs Act, which would have provided money to rebuild America’s infrastructure. Don’t get me...