• Tell RUSH the Truth!

    elrushbo@eibnet.com Rush Limbaugh has called all of us who work for a living, who believe we have a right to negotiate our pay and benefits “Free Loaders” and “UnAmerican.” He has millions of viewers and listeners and makes millions a year. Good for him. But when you need an education for your children, is it Read more

  • If It’s not Class Warfare, What Is It?

      When the wealthy act collectively to defend their interests it’s called a CORPORATION And conservatives will fight tooth and nail to preserve the RIGHTS of the CORPORATION. But when working people act collectively to defend their interests it’s called a UNION! And conservatives will fight tooth and nail to destroy it!   If you Read more

  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy This was a great political analysis by Rachel Maddow. This is one of the areas where liberals in general and democrats in particular, need a lesson in politics. Liberals want to have a war of ideas, which they invariably lose because our Read more

  • Egypt Teaches Us a Lesson in Democracy

    And School’s Not Out Yet!   Egypt is one of the world’s oldest cultures. The lessons that we can learn from this ancient and expansive culture are too numerous to recount here. However, we can add a few more lessons that one does not typically associate with Egypt, at least not among the globally self-sequestered Read more

  • Getting Past the Gun Control Mythology!

    If we are going to have a discussion about guns, let’s have one unhindered by the same old MYTHOLOGY   We need to have a discussion about guns. I don’t think this is a controversial statement. What may be controversial is the nature of that discussion. For many years now the discourse on guns in Read more

  • Crazy Doesn’t Happen in a Vacuum

    Dismissing Jared Loughner as crazy silences real discussions we should be having about our society   Before embarking on this discussion, let’s dispense with some of the ridiculous standard faire discourse born from the tragedy in Tucson. Liberals: Conservatives are not to “blame” for this attack. Loughner was most certainly not a right winger, his Read more