The article below, a mea culpa by a citizen who simply did not see the wisdom however flawed in the healthcare reform bill and how it would ultimately help her, illustrates the importance of messaging. The President and his protégés and to some extent yours truly failed at getting the message out. At times […]

I received the list below from one of my Coffee Party USA friends who emailed it to many of us.   Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation© (Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist) by H. Michael Sweeney. These 25 rules are everywhere in media, from political debates, to television shows, to […]

 Last night, all but one Republican in the U.S. Senate voted against extending the payroll tax cut for 160 million working Americans and small businesses in order to protect millionaires from paying just three percent more on money they make above a million dollars. Washington Republicans put millionaire tax giveaways ahead of putting money in […]

Call me naive, but I think we have the potential for a clean sweep in 2012. I think the Democrats have finally been effective in changing the discussion albeit kicking and screaming by the Occupy movement which isn’t even a Democratic movement. That said, Democrats lack of embracing the Class Warfare mantra specifical­ly as well […]

It is not at all surprising that the GOP candidates are a bastion of lies, untruths, misrepresentations, and outright ignorance. The Right by design must lie. That is the only way middle class America would ever vote for their candidates­. Most people don’t knowingly vote against their own interest. The GOP is effective of using […]

I have read that killers say that the first time they murdered someone it was very difficult. As they killed more, the sting of that evil act eventually disappeare­d. It became a matter of fact. Republican­s for a long time has been implicitly demonizing the middle class. As the Occupy Movement began to metastasiz­e their […]

  Private Sector Job Growth Accelerates, Report Shows By REUTERS Published: November 30, 2011 at 9:39 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) – Private sector job growth accelerated in November as employers created the most jobs in nearly a year, prompting economists to raise their forecasts for Friday’s more comprehensive U.S. labor report. The ADP National […]

Before I go into my prose, please click here to sign the petition against the Protect IP bill and call your 2 senators against this bill now. Our free enterprise economy depends on it. If these bills pass, corporations will own the last bastion of information dispersal available to the middle class. Now my prose. […]

Mitt Romney lied in an attack ad on president Obama. Let’s review his flip flops & lies It was not too hard to find videos of Mitt Romney flipping and flopping and lying all over the place. I just prepared this little video. I will call it a Public Service Announcement (PSA). We will need […]

Charles Dickens Revisited by Bob Henderson If you’ve read any nineteenth-century English literature, several societal conditions leap out at you instantly. In books that accurately portray the facts of life of more than a century ago, children are the best source of cheap labor. In fact, collective bargaining is against the law. The rich invariably […]