Campaign coverage often likes to jump from gaffe to gaffe as if this (and poll data) is the only relevant thing to talk about in a Presidential race. Perhaps it is just a function of the overly polished, trite vacuousness of the rest of their tightl…

Campaign coverage often likes to jump from gaffe to gaffe as if this (and poll data) is the only relevant thing to talk about in a Presidential race. Perhaps it is just a function of the overly polished, trite vacuousness of the rest of their tightly …

Dear Readers; Once more we can say; “As America goes, so does Canada!” Maybe not right away, and maybe not in quite the same way, but in that general direction none the less! ———————————————- By Jeff Stibel , Harvard Business Revue. The US economy today borders on schizophrenic. To be sure, we are seeing signs [...]

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Gov. Jeb Bush celebrates the “right to rise,” a concept he credits to Rep. Paul Ryan.
The idea behind the phrase is a powerful one: “We have to make it easier for people to do the things that allow them to rise.” At a time when Americans born into the poorest [...]

Saturday night’s debate provided a good example of how current GOP orthodoxy thwarts presidential candidates from talking seriously about the economic problems of the American middle class.
Mitt Romney wants to offer a middle-class economic agenda. (Or anyway, his consultants have decided he needs to offer a middle-class economic agenda. Motives don’t matter for our purposes [...]

I have not commented on the recent Tom Edsall piece on the Democrats abandoning the white working class but Michael Barone does so here. An interesting nugget in that article is that Obama won a greater share of the vote than all but three Democratic Presidents but:
[H]e did it without capturing the vast middle of the [...]

Pity the poor black kids in Toronto. While their parents try to better their chances for a productive life, the School Board is condemning them to menial jobs and social marginalization that is not much better than slavery. Mark my words folks, even though an “Afrocentric” high school will have all those black kids studying [...]

Robert Patterson makes a welcomed point in the Washington Examiner:
For decades, conservative economists have essentially argued that carving out loopholes for property income at the expense of workers will generate more jobs and greater prosperity.
Yet the legacy of the Reagan, Clinton, and Bush 43 tax cuts — reductions that embody this property income bias, while relying [...]

Usually, I don’t have the patience to watch long videos. About six-seven minutes is my limit. So, last night, as I told my sweetie about Elizabeth Warren, I showed him this (short) video. Then, from the same YouTube page, he clicked on this. It’s nearly an hour long, but it’s rivetting and provides the facts and figures for the long decline of the middle class in the US. And, no doubt, things are

by: Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com | Op-Ed From time to time, someone under 30 will ask me, “When did this all begin, America’s downward slide?” They say they’ve heard of a time when working people could raise a family and send the kids to college on just one parent’s income (and that college in states like [...]