Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

The NY Times had an article this morning about the Iraq Rebuilding Project’s failure. “In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because […]

There’s a great article on NewsTarget that interprets the results of a Consumer Reports survey about the FDA and given to US residents. According to the article:

96 percent of those surveyed agreed the government should have the power to require warning labels on drugs with known safety problems. As Consumer Reports explains, “Right now, […]

It came as no surprise when I read the NYT article this morning on Bush’s Gutting of OSHA. He’s proven in Iraq that the Lives and Health of the American People are just so much fodder for the Corporate Money Making Machines, so why should it be any different here on American Soil? So what […]

What is the spectrum auction, and why doesn’t Big Media talk about it? Because the Big Media Cabal stands to gain a whole bunch of moneymaking spectrum (and keep it out of the hands of potential competition) if they don’t let the public know what’s at stake.
Because the FCC has mandated the switch to HDTV, […]

There’s a very disturbing op ed piece in the NY Times about a woman who was wrongly convicted by the DOJ in Wisconsin.
Members of Congress should ask whether it was by coincidence or design that Steven Biskupic, the United States attorney in Milwaukee, turned a flimsy case into a campaign issue that nearly helped Republicans […]

Over the last couple days, after attending the Step It Up Rally for Climate Change in Bethlehem PA on Saturday, I’ve really been doing a lot of thinking about the damage that’s been done by the Bush Administration. I started thinking about how he’s gutted the Environmental Protection Agency and its regulations, and how the […]

Kurt Vonnegut, the anti-war novelist whose dark comedy/tragedy, Slaughterhouse Five, came to be the iconic novel of the Vietnam War Protest Movement, is dead at the age of 84. His unfailing moral compass will be sorely missed, and one only hopes that in true Vonnegutian fashion, he’s reincarnated into one of Geoge Bush’s pets, and […]

There is a very thought provoking article about responding to Climate Change at the Libertarian site, Reason Magazine. It really lays out a very cogent and clear path of, believe it or not, regulation (yes, government intervention. Imagine that!) that would, if carefully crafted, steadily reduce sources of carbon emission:
This argues not for passivity, and […]

Dr. Laibow at the Natural Solutions Foundation has posted an alert. The FDA is up to its old tricks, and trying to reclassify Natural Health Products as “Medicine” which will make it illegal to sell or purchase herbs and other natural supplements, and will only allow Doctors to prescribe them (which has resulted in some […]

It’s about time that the Court System grew a set of balls and started forcing government agencies such as the EPA to enforce laws properly, and rolled back changes and exemptions to those laws that the Bush Administration put in place to benefit their supporters. The Supreme Court ruled favor of Environmental Defense, et al. […]