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What Do President Obama and Mahatma Gandhi NOT Have In Common?
Answer: Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prise. Yes, it’s true. One of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance in the history of man never received the Nobel Peace Prize. What’s funny is that I’d always assumed he had. I was shocked to discover this omission when I was researching the Nobel Prize after hearing Read more
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ACORN and the Politics of Perfection
The situation with ACORN has really got me thinking. Okay, I’ll have to admit that I think there should be some penalty for the group which, at the very least, was caught doing something stupid in re, offering tax advice to a pimp. What has me intrigued, however, is the amount of effort and energy Read more
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Can't Understand Why People Think Race is an Issue!
Interesting that this is stamped over a picture of the Lincoln Monument! Editor of The Progressive, Matthew Rothschild, quoted this letter he received, “America is in deep, deep trouble. The country lost its mind last November and went and elected a Third World chimp as President. So who can be surprised now that Barack Hussen Read more
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The Politics of Political Surveys
Just when I was wondering what to blog about (I, in fact, have another blog in the making). Yesterday I received an invitation from Representative Connie Mack to attend his Health Care Forum in Fort Myers. Included with the invitation is a Health Care Reform Survey. Well, I’m a sociologist. Surveys are the staples of Read more
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Illegal Immigrants and Health Care
One of the many axes on which health care reform rests is whether illegal immigrants will have access to health care. There appears to be unanimous outcry from Republicans bewailing the possibility that illegals might weasel access to health care. Joe Wilson even breached congressional decorum by screaming “you lie!” at the President for stating Read more
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What do we do about Wall Street
This weekend a great deal of time has been spent remembering 9/11. This is important. We should always commemorate the suffering and sacrifice of that fateful day. But there’s another day we must not forget. October 6, 2009, the day the Stock Market crashed. Now this might not have been as dramatic as a terrorist Read more
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