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This week it is easy to believe that the real problem with our democracy is that there is too much money in politics.  The relentless barrage of negative advertising re-enforces all of our worst fears about the dishonest and unethical ...Read more

The turbulent politics of today has a lot of us asking ourselves where we stand.  The political ground is shifting quickly in this century, amid crises of terror, finance, unemployment, disaster, immigration, and burgeoning nation debt.    The political bases are ...Read more

“Budget?  We don’t need no stinking budget.” That is what Congressional Democrats seem to be saying, kind of like the classic line from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (“Badges?  I don’t have to show you no stinking badges!”).  Until ...Read more

In the waning days of the 2008 Presidential election, Candidate Barack Obama spoke of transformation in the nation. His whole campaign was based on “Hope and Change” and many voters, who suffered from Bush-Cheney fatigue, years of war and ...Read more

Barack Obama became America’s 44th President in troubled economic times. On the home front, his “conservative” predecessor had authorized spending that created a deficit of $l.3 trillion. Real-estate markets, stock markets, and financial markets collapsed. Advanced economies run on ...Read more