The Citizens

Hi Everyone, With the latest election results in Greece and France there is another round of media coverage on the ongoing crises in E...

There is an old saying they use to have in Soviet Russia. "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work." This bears some thinkin...

Recently the California State University announced that unless a referendum passes that will partly restore their funding levels, they canno...

While the French media ask how a man who was under surveillance managed to amase a weapons cache, I have a bigger question, one that I am su...

Every day we see more and more bizarre statements from Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney that are so far removed from reality it is hard to kno...

There has been a lot of news the last couple of weeks about changes to medical policies that directly affect women’s health. The most recent...

Iran has been threatening to close the Straits of Hormuz- again. They do this periodically. I doubt very much it will actually happen. I th...

Hi Everyone, The punditocracy is waxing panic stricken about the future of the Euro. With the ongoing crisis in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portu...

I have often blogged or commented about my opposition to direct democracy. Usually, my ire is directed at Prop 13 and other examples of how...

It has been reported that the President wants to change the student loan program. One change that is being touted is that students are allow...

It's official, Lybia is now well rid of Moammar Gadhafi . This may seem like a minor event to most Americans who - justifiably - may ...

Some Occupy Wall Streeters are calling for student loan forgiviness. This sounds like a great idea, especially for people like me with high ...

This is a short post, but this article, Looting of Social Security posted on Fed-Smith.com today is the clearest explanation of what has h...

Herman Caine is surging in the polls as the latest "Not Romney" As he is, the media is falling all over themselves to do halfasse...

They didn't leave anything out. That is for sure!

Last night, Harry Reid exercised what is known as the "nuclear option" in some circles over Senate rules. He led a majority of De...

In light of the last post about the Occupy Wall Street protests and how they might be an emerging contrast to the Tea Party I thought I woul...

Something interesting is happening in response to a year of Republican austerity measures imposed by the 2010 elections at the state level a...

President Obama has adopted a new approach to going after the Republicans. Rather than bending over backwards to compromise with uncompromi...

There is an emerging talking point among Republicans that the way to create jobs is not to spend government money on infrastructure projects...