Economy and Ecology: One and Inseparable. (Part II of Compass in the Storm)
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:Introduction: What are we to say of a great nation, the wealthiest the modern world has ever seen, that can no longer dream of, much less enact, “big things,” even...
View ArticleTrump Desperate to Juice Economy as Only Hope to 2020 Election; Better to...
By Karen Rubin, News & Photo FeaturesAndrew Yang, entrepreneur candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, says he intends to fight what he predicts will be widespread unemployment and...
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Choosing to Dream...
How powerful is the “Dream”? For those who are born to it, it feels like an old blanket, warm to the touch with comfort to spare. For those in search of it, it is like a beacon drawing them closer....
View ArticleWhoops! That's not America in Trump's 'American dream' ad
I wish I could take credit for this, but it’s The Daily Beast that picked up on a minor flaw in President Donald Trump’s “American Dream” campaign ad released Monday: That’s not America.In the...
View ArticleTurning Long Island’s Housing Discrimination Disgrace into Affordable Housing...
By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.comLong Islanders are appropriately mortified by Newsday’s expose into ongoing housing discrimination that builds upon, rather than erases, the earliest...
View ArticleLosing the American Dream, Real Estate Agents expose the industry
Several real estate professionals expose in detail some dirty big secrets in the real estate business that is causing the loss of the American Dream.Our home used to be the American DreamxxYouTube...
View ArticlePompeo’s Safer World: North Korea, NRA, Russia, Trump’s Iran OR How Americans...
When America was a 1776 infant drinking the milk of human kindness, speaking child-like about the necessity for a peculiar institution, while failing to understand the necessity for a 1791 Bill of...
View ArticleD. Brooks attacks Sanders on class war: instead, workers to school forever...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:Conservative columnist David Brooks had a particularly obtuse and narrowly focused hit piece on Senator Bernie Sanders in Friday’s New York Times, and I felt I had...
View ArticleThe emotional story of America
America needs a spiritual awakening. Imagine two married people, one the breadwinner and the other the housekeeper. They have many fights, where they get very emotional, and the breadwinner does most...
View ArticleU.S. immigration policies push foreign tech workers to pursue Canada instead
Tech workers would rather go to Canada than the U.S., suggests new trends. As the current administration cracks down on immigration, foreign tech workers are finding it more difficult to get work visas...
View ArticleRichard Thripp for Congress (Florida’s 6th District): WJXT News4Jax Voter's...
My answers to the WJXT News4Jax TV station's Election 2020 Voter's Guide. Enjoy! June 27, 2020 Name: Richard ThrippSeeking which office: U.S. House, 6th districtParty affiliation: DemocraticAge:...
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Joe Biden pledges to "Reverse the damage Donald Trump has done" to America
—Joe pledges to reverse the damage Donald Trump has done to America's foundation.The foundation he describes as: Democracy and Equality for all people.Joe Biden: Trump erodes America's foundation. This...
View ArticleJoe Biden offers the sort of 'presidential' Fourth of July address America...
On the morning of Independence Day, clinched 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden took to social media with a short but powerful video that speaks not just to the storied history of our...
View ArticleTrump told Americans a whopper before he was elected on his taxes. He also...
Sometimes, the truth comes from strange places. This morning, President Trump retweeted the kind quiet part out loud, the belief that many conservatives have but would prefer you not to think about. In...
View ArticleThe End OF A Beautiful Dream
Everything important and original starts from a dream. It can be sad but all dreams must end. This is the nature of a dream. We must wake up. Ride it out. Live it as best we can until it brings us...
View ArticleHey Salon, Chevy Chase Nailed the Fascist Aesthetic In Christmas Vacation 30...
My brain makes weird connections.Today my wife and I ended up watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and I happened to read this article at Salon about an hour later and the neural pathways in...
View ArticleTiffany Cross nails it: Their American dream was our nightmare. This is as...
Sometimes when a mirror is held in front of us, it is hard to believe. Tiffany Cross did that today. The American dream has been a nightmare for many.Tiffany Cross got it completely right.xxYouTube...
View ArticleTomgram: Ariel Dorfman, Liberty and Justice for All?
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Over these last few years, here’s a problem that’s sometimes bothered me: how to...
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Relighting the Torch: Allen Ellison on Immigration and Strengthening Families
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden...
View ArticleWhat do you think that the ideal immigration policy for the US should be?
What do you think that the ideal immigration policy for the US should be?Personally, I think that the Democrats are moving in the right direction in regards to this, with Joe Biden’s proposed...
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