Oct 14, 2011 | Class Issues, Democrats, Economic Policy, Liberalism, Plutocracy, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama
Published: The Newark Star-Ledger (October 14, 2011) The pundits are claiming that Occupy Wall Street lacks a coherent agenda. I have one for them that can be summed up in two words: Rebuild America. Although Occupy Wall Street’s anger has been targeted at the...
Oct 2, 2011 | Civil Liberties, Conservativism, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Media Issues, Pennsylvania, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Religion and Religious Issues, Republicans
Published: The Morning Call (October 2, 2011) In a recent interview with Politico, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum issued a scathing denunciation of Google. "If you're a responsible business," he remarked, "you don't let things like that happen in your...
Aug 15, 2011 | Conservativism, Economic Policy, Extremism, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans
Published: The Morning Call (August 15, 2011) When reviewing "Atlas Shrugged," the magnum opus of libertarian paladin Ayn Rand, famed anti-communist Whittaker Chambers made this observation about her philosophy: "Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other...
Jul 28, 2011 | Conservativism, Economic Policy, Extremism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans
Published: The Express Times (July 28, 2011) Even though I am hardly a fan of the disproportionate influence of big businesses in our government, the reality is that the vast majority of them don’t want a default any more than centrists, leftists and moderate...
Oct 2, 2010 | Political Ideologies, Uncategorized
Whenever the Tea Party is accused of being motivated by racism, its conservative defenders tend to trot out some variation of this argument:"Why is that you liberals always play the race card whenever conservatives disagree with you? Can't you accept the fact that...