Author: ManfromMiddletown

Not since the days of the great Depression and the great ecological crisis of the Dust Bowl, when the good earth proceded to depart from the Great Plains upon the winds to points further east, has my country faced a refugee...

Crossposted from DailyKos. Now that the level of destruction is clear, I question whether it make any sense to rebuild a city in the gumbo bowl that New Orleans sits in now. Each year we have hurricane’s that strike the...

Right now we have a serious problem with recruitment for the armed forces. Why shouldn’t all these mercenary firms be seized and the empoyees forcibly inducted into the US armed forces? The recent ruling of the Supremes in...

This is a follow up to my earlier diary on last weekends elections in Spain’s Basque Country, please unreccomend the prior diary.   The results are in and the nationalist coallition of Basque President Ibarretxe has...

   Almost unnoticed in the American press, what is potentially the greatest geo-political shift in Western Europe since the Second World War is set to be voted on tommorow.      When Americans think of...