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This Annexation Is An Outrage: Let’s Go To War

By admin March 20, 20147 Comments

Oh, wait. They're talking about Crimea, not Texas. Nor Hawaii, or Midway, American Samoa, Wake Island and half dozen other pacific islands we annexed, from what I can see, without money changing hands. And there are a dozen other annexations the good old U.S. of A. pulled off where we actually paid the owner while we held a gun to their head. Such as Puerto Rico and Guam, not to mention the Panama Canal zone.

Venezuela In Chaos: Why Should We Care?

By admin March 13, 20145 Comments

I've been trying to follow recent events in Venezuela. Here's my take, informed by the work of activist Tom Hayden of Peace Exchange, Chris Gilbert, professor at Universidad de Venezuela and Rory Carroll, a reporter for the Guardian and Observer Latin America, based in Caracas for six years until recently.

Greater Potential For Democratic/Liberal Domination in Delaware

By admin March 9, 201432 Comments

A cursory look at the voting numbers in Delaware suggest plenty of room for growth for the DelDem party and the liberal movement. But, if they got their act together again, Republicans are not out of the picture. It is a function of who mobilizes to capitalize on this opportunity.

Code Pink Co-Founder Brutalized in Egypt

By admin March 5, 20142 Comments

Medea Benjamin, the indomitable co-founder of the women's activist group Code Pink has reported that en-route to a women's conference in Gaza, she was physically attacked at an airport in Egypt.

Ukraine: Geopolitical Chess

By admin March 3, 201418 Comments

Some sentimentalists have been characterizing the Ukraine crisis as a popular revolution. Not so fast. This situation requires some careful analysis, not platitudes. Hear that CNN and mainstream media? Probably not.

What? A Private School Bus Stipend?

By admin February 27, 201413 Comments

Ok, I'm ready for it. A transplant from Texas dares to question the Delaware practice of providing private school parents who apply for a stipend to transport their children to a non-public school? Yes. Admittedly I was shocked to learn that this is a pretty longstanding practice here and in a number of other states. Apparently also there is funding of school nurses in private schools.

Honey, I Need to Stop By The Post Office And Make A Deposit

By admin February 21, 201441 Comments

Imagine that. Swing by the Post Office and do your banking. Deposits, not by mail, though you could from home or the Postal Box down at the corner. But actually do your banking when you send the kids a care package. A really great idea with no downsides.

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Corporations Reign Supreme

By admin February 15, 20146 Comments

You might have read that the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, developed under the auspices of the Obama Administration is currently stymied, bottled up in both the House and the Senate, with lots of opposition. Let's count our blessings while we can on this one. Here's why, in a nutshell.

Delaware Democratic Party: Is Anybody Home?

By admin February 8, 201437 Comments

Coming up on my first year in Delaware, I've periodically visited the DelDems website and Facebook page. I've been looking for signs of life. I've called the Executive Director, who now appears to be gone, trying to get an appointment to learn what his going on, and come up with what we called in Texas, a dry hole. I've made fairly desperate attempts to contact Ward leadership to learn of meeting schedules and contacts. Nothing. Nada.

Your Solutions To America’s Rate Of Violence?

By admin February 2, 201433 Comments

We read nearly daily of mall and school slaughters in our country? Our prisons and courts are brimming with violent offenders. Petty garden variety shootings are an everyday occurrence on our city streets. New and better data on physical violence within families and rape and molestations in the military suggests we're just discovering the tip of the iceberg on violence in our society. In this the richest country in the world? What are your solutions?

Whacky Idea: Go Directly To The Richest 400

By admin January 29, 20149 Comments

Here's a whacky idea that may not be totally crazy. This is inspired by the 2014 SOTU brilliantly delivered by my President.

President Obama’s Election Reform Commission-Small Ideas

By admin January 28, 20142 Comments

Last week the President's election reform Commission published its report with their ideas on reforming our election systems. The ideas seemed to be to improved voter participation, particularly in national elections. Because it was intended to provide a bi-partisan answer to our obvious electoral deficiencies, the solutions proposed, while mostly helpful, were incremental and did not offer answers to our long-standing crisis in our so-called participatory republican democracy.

New Analysis Of U.S. Misjudgement on Sarin Gas Source

By admin January 21, 201414 Comments

Robert Parry, of ConsotiumNews and noted investigative reporter has just published an investigative report on the August 21 Sarin Gas attack in Syria. The report is entitled “The Mistaken Guns of Last August” and can be seen at ConsortiumNews.com. He cites the work of Richard Lloyd of Tesla Labs and Theodore A. Postol, science professor at MIT. Parry says: “A new report by two American weapons specialists, entitled “Possible Implications of Faulty US Technical Intelligence in the Damascus Nerve Agent Attack,” makes clear that the case presented by Kerry and the Obama administration was scientifically impossible because the range of the key rocket carrying Sarin was less than a third of what the U.S. government was claiming.