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 American plutocracy (a term best defined by Theodore Roosevelt as “government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the...
Aug 15, 2011 | Conservativism, Economic Policy, Extremism, Liberalism, mic, 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 book in which a tone of overriding arrogance was so implacably sustained. Its shrillness is without reprieve. Its dogmatism is...
Jul 28, 2011 | Conservativism, Economic Policy, Extremism, mic, 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 conservatives. The blame here rests entirely with the Tea Party and their enablers in Congress, all of whom stand alone in their...