This kind of says it all. Don’t be put off by the beginning. Just keep watching…

I am hoping (maybe even praying?) that the video below isn’t real – that some really good filmmakers put it together to make a point – that what I’m watching has been faked for maximum effect. I’ll be honest. I only got about half way through the video below. But that was enough. War. It [...]

I completely understood (pretty much) all my friends when they explained to me (around the Wall Street and Banking bailout led by the Goldman Sachs people running the government under the newly elected Obama) that Obama had no choice but to spend those taxpayer’s trillions. They made it clear that it was because the financial [...]

I do think it’s worth turning our attention away from a moment of celebration re Health Care, a moment I do believe that Obama deserves some real praise, to a much darker part of the picture. And when we look at this darker picture (thank you “Incognito” for this reference in your comments here), a [...]

I’m sitting in a little café-bar in Orvieto, Italy right now, ruminating on an argument that has kept rattling around in my head for about a week now. The supposition – I think it was Saint Augustine that various folks on the right wing have been referencing recently – is that from the earliest days [...]

It’s not going to happen here in the United States – peace – not in this coming year, not in my lifetime. I have to face the fact that no matter how many well-meaning cards I receive embossed with “peace,” I still have a President, much lauded, for delivering one of the more forceful war-arguments [...]