The odds are that Obama will lose the next election. I know the professional gamblers currently are putting the odds in Obama's favor. If you know how these odds are generated, you will also realize that the relatively small number of bets in favor of Obama winning w …
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The nation is clearly tired of Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
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I stumbled across an amazing time-lapse history of atmospheric CO2 this morning. Beginning with data from Mauna Loa, Antarctica, and local signals around the world - and moving backwards in time (incorporating data from numerous sources, including ice cores and other proxies …
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This tool is about the best indicator I have seen of how 3 dimensional our political views are, and how a Communist, capitalist and centrist can have the same basic government and social structure despite widely different state economic and social goals. Another key point is t …
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Would you would like to see a truly progressive candidate run for president. Someone who would fight for the Middle Class, fight for something like the public option that the Insurance companies hate, someone who would stand up to the military-industrial establishment and …
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The British author George Orwell, best known for his anti-authoritarian works Animal Farm and 1984, was a soldier in the International Brigades supporting the Anarchist/Socialist Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. Orwell meticulously documented his first-hand o …
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Old habits die hard and MSM has been selectively editing material for generations so it is no surprise that a photo as visible as their person of the year cover was editorialized to change the facts we see with our own eyes into something vaguer that might be foreign to American …
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Unfortunately this does not seem to be a real political choice, but Elizabeth Warren has become an outstanding champion of the middle class family and she is being vigorously attacked by Karl Rove and other Republicans in whatever way they can. None of it is sticking.  …
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Its 4 years since the economic "crisis" began. We got rid of a president widely seen as part of the cause with his experiments in trickle down economics.
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..the borrower is the slave of the lender. --Proverbs 22:7 (English Standard Version) ...and the borrower becomes the lender's slave. --Proverbs 22:7 (New American Standard Bible) ...those who borrow are slaves of moneylenders.
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