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“I think, umm, my biggest concern obviously would just be for the — ummm– his emotional well-being. I have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness, in his leadership...
Someone from France told me she found it incredible that many American streets lack sidewalks. Here many communities are built for cars, not people. This is especially true of suburbs, where pedestrian traffic is...
“One corporation paid $26,000 a year to maintain a post office box in Bermuda as its legal headquarters. That little trick saved them $40 million in corporate taxes…Â If you raise these issues you...
Let’s hear three jeers for Washington State, which yet again has the ignoble distinction of the most regressive tax structure in the nation – a “soak the poor†system where those with the least...
So Mitt Romney thinks that 47 percent of us are moochers. Let’s keep in mind that Mr. Romney is only referring to the federal income tax. He disregards what comes out of each and...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Activist and economist Gar Alperovitz offers a diagnosis of what ails America, and prescribes what Noam Chomsky calls “concrete and...
Here are some of the lessons I’ve learned as an activist since the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement on Sept 17, 2011. Personal Empowerment = Social Empowerment As we learn to accept...
Though I’m definitely not libertarian, this video makes a good point about the desirability of allowing third candidates besides Romney and Obama into the presidential debates. The same argument could apply to Justice Party...
Conservative Favorite Things (lyrics and vocals by Don Smith) I wrote this about five years ago but re-recorded it with a voice track over an orchestral accompaniment. If you have a good voice, please...
“Real entitlement programs are ones where beneficiaries do not contribute, like when we working taxpayers pay bankers hundreds of billions of dollars “interest” on their reserves, or pay for puffed-up and no-bid government contracts...
