Toxic Trash Goes Viral as U.S. Election Nears

  My cousin and his wife who live in Miami – one of the sweetest couples I know – forwarded an email to me this morning that left me deeply depressed. It is a report of a speech by Dr. Charles Krauthammer (photo above, left), who appears regularly on Fox News. The message is in […]

U.S. Congress at a Standstill Until the Next Election

The British parliamentary system, which has been adopted throughout the Commonwealth, requires the ruling party to resign and call a new election if the opposition defeats a major piece of its policy legislation. America’s “checks and balances” system allows for no such relief. Like a bad Catholic marriage, the major parties remain in unholy deadlock […]

Now That Money is Talking, Congress Might Listen

Obviously, most Americans have had it with Congress. Not just the Republicans, who earned a 40 percent approval rating in a recent national survey but also the Democrats, who managed to scrape only a 43 percent rating. Put the parties together and Congress gets 12 percent approval from the electorate. Twelve percent! Down from 21 […]

The Choice Facing America in 2012

So the U.S. government didn’t get shut down after all (click here for details). Why am I not surprised? A bill to keep the government open through Sept. 30 while trimming $38 billion from the federal budget, cleared the House with bipartisan support, 260-167. Fifty-nine Republicans ignored their party’s pleas and voted against the bill, […]