Author: TerranceDC

Congress, Get To Work: America Needs Jobs

Crossposted from OurFuture.Org "I have worked all my life." It’s something that’s true of many Americans, whether employed or unemployed. But it has a special resonance for Americans who have worked hard,...

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Rand Paul Wants It Both Ways

(If They Could Turn Back Time, Pt. 2) When I heard Rand Paul’s statement about the civil rights act, I had a sense of deja vu. Not only that I’d heard them before, but that I run into the peculiar conservative...

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Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies …

… Grow Up To Be Banksters. So much for telling kids to "always tell the truth." It turns out, toddlers who tell lies do better as adults. Whether this is surprising news about child development, or a sad...

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Deepwater: Conservative & Corp. Failure

The only things more astounding than conservatives’ record of failure, are their denials of "personal responsibility" for the ensuing disasters, and their attempts to blame somebody — anybody — else. Their...

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Conservatism’s Barnum & Bailey World

OK. Maybe just a Barnum world — P.T. Barnum, that is. This legendary promoter of famous hoaxes comes to mind once again as I watch the various congressional hearings related to the financial crisis, or read of the testimony from...

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