The Republican Party began going very sour with Richard M. Nixon, and it's been sinking more deeply into corruption ever since, with Carl Rove and his cronies leading the way of late.

So. What would you do to increase your chances of electing as many Republican candidates as possible in a national, or for that matter state or local, election? Well, ( Read more... )

Franklin D. Roosevelt said back in the 1940s that the American people had "nothing to fear but fear itself." The population of the country was much smaller in those days, and it was probably possible to reverse a trend in which too many people might make decisions based on fear rather than on reality.

Within the past few days, the media have brought ( Read more... )

The failures that have plagued this country for at least 65 years now continue to build catastrophe onto catastrophe. What are some of those failures? The failure of U.S. education to prepare our citizens to think analytically, logically, and unemotionally and to evaluate political candidates in an intelligent and reasonable way. The failure of the ( Read more... )

Okay. Let me get this straight: If the leader of another country attacks the civilians of that country and kills off a bunch of them, he or she is a war criminal. If a leader of the U.S. takes the responsibility for actions that kill off a bunch of civilians in another country, he or she is ... just doing his job and is not to be considered a war ( Read more... )