Month: November 2010

I’m not an unreserved supporter of Nancy Pelosi, but I think she was the best Speaker of the House in my lifetime. If she wants to stay on as Minority Leader then I will definitely support her. I think her biggest mistake...

Everyone put on their spock ears for a sec. My diary often touches on technology and space. I do that to remind us all that one of the critical roles of government has been and likely always will be the expansion of our...

As a preface, I want declare at the outset that I am NOT a “gloom and doom” merchant. Instead of ignoring those highly pregnant facts currently swirling about in American society, I am normally inspired to make an...

Greg Sargent: Can we please bag this idea that it’s somehow a “compromise” in any meaningful sense if we temporarily extend all the Bush tax cuts, including the ones for the rich? Come on. It’s really...

Despite all the hype and rhetoric, only one impact of the midterm elections is assured.  Notwithstanding power shifts from Democrats to Republicans in Congress there will not be any deep, sorely needed true reforms of our...