You don’t have to be an economist to recognize GREED or a social scientist to realize that people who have prospered most from America’s opportunities are the most resistant to provide financial resources to restore the nation’s strength and health.

That is the sum and substance of our current economic situation, inherited by President Obama…a condition nurtured by Ronal Reagan and both Bushes – Daddy and particularly, Baby Bush.

As reported earlier this week President Obama...

As long as there are individuals or groups perceived as disposable, our democracy is compromised.

That was certainly the heart and soul of the Civil Rights struggle in the 1960’s…the fact that an entire segment of our population was segregated by law was a contradiction to every concept of human decency, to say nothing of a nation that boasts of its democratic principles. It is difficult for young people today to imagine that – by law – we had segregated movie theatres and public toi...

I have a few impertinent questions I would like to pose…and like jesting Pilate, I’ll wait not for an answer and provide them myself.

For example, as I listen to reports about would-be Texas secessionists protesting against the Obama stimulus package or anything else he does, I want to ask them if they have any idea what their tax burden would be if they assumed independence. Let me answer that for the Texans…but first couldn’t you have suggested secession before Bush and Cheney, two...