John Maynard Keynes was not the only world class economist who told us that huge deficit spending is imperative in order to pump life back into a recessed, depressed, catastrophically mismanaged economy.

Last month, more than three hundred of the world's best economists led by several Nobel Prize winners, created...

During this administration's last lame duck months, there has been an effort to minimize the importance of a new congressional report about the probabilities of another catastrophic domestic terrorist attack. According to this newest report, the most realistic threat won't come from weapons being smuggled across our borders and assembled...

Mainstream media did a poor job telling the story about how almost 70% of America's largest multinational corporations paid zero income taxes between 1998 and 2005. You can be certain that the reason that story wasn't widely reported in traditional media is because more than a few of those...

The GOP has always hated unions. Whenever they need a villain or a scapegoat, America's unions are always at the top of that list. Never mind the fact that union actions help increase wages across the board, even for those who aren't members, the Republican Party just can't stand the...

Before America is once again in the hands of competent leadership, "W" has his last chance to sign off on about twenty 11th-hour executive orders that all have a couple of features in common. First, they reward segments of corporate America as a payback for the millions of dollars showered...

Health care coverage, pension programs, and guaranteed vacation time for union workers is not what destroyed the auto industry. There were no union shops at AIG, Bear Stearns, Freddie Mac, and Shearson Lehman. Still, those poorly-run companies failed for the same reason America's Big Three failed. It is misfeasance, malfeasance,...

Henry Paulson has changed his mind three times about how he intends to give away $700 billion worth of taxpayer money. However, one thing is clear about Paulson's bailout mentality, and that is that he has no common ground with most of the people who are coughing up the money...

My wife gave me some great advice this week. She reminded me that it is never a good idea to have a narrow focus on anything for too long. She emphasized that politics is no exception. That advice makes good sense after moving through twenty-one months of a presidential campaign....

Several years ago, I wrote a book about the lessons of Aesop's Fables. I learned that during the sixth century B.C., Aesop had become counselor to one of the most powerful kings in Asia Minor. His stories focused on a few truths that he believed leaders needed to understand before...

I never dreamed I would find myself feeling sympathy for George W. Bush, but that occurred as I watched Oliver Stone's movie, "W." Most of Bush's political critics would prefer to accuse Bush of having a dishonest nature about him while he drove America over a cliff. But Stone does...

Just months before Lee Atwater struggled to take his last breaths, he made a plea for forgiveness. The forgiveness he was looking for needed to come from the decent people whose lives he had ruined in his effort to become known as the king of political filth. But it was...

It's no surprise that John McCain's phonied-up image of Joe the Plumber is just as much of a fraud as the rest of McCain's floundering campaign.

The only bonehead in the world who might really believe that Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher is a genuine item is a guy like Steve Doocy...

Kill him! Off with his head! Bomb Obama! The Terrorist! Those are not the cries heard at skinhead rallies. Those are the lizard-brain rantings of a small fringe of GOP loyalists at political rallies as a hate talk express moves from one small town to the next.

I'm proud...

A couple of weeks ago during one of those Fox TV segments I often do, I threw out what I thought was a pretty good idea for conservative political pundits. I was opposite a radio-pundit type by the name of Mike Gallagher. He was shouting at me as they often...