Progressives

American citizen, by your vote, YOU have the power to decide which of the of the two competing paths before us our country will take: 1. Do you want a top down government managed society, with an ever bigger and more powerful federal government, and ever weaker and more dependent citizen/subjects, with a weak, government [...]

What would you think if the President of the United States declared the government was a god to whom all citizens owed their loyalty and devotion at any cost, and therefore inalienable rights of the individual were nonsense? On April 2, 2012 President Obama gave a speech in support of redistribution of wealth where he [...]

Cliffhangers, suspense, political intrigue, and people rising from the dead. We all love a good roller coaster ride while reading the latest bestseller novel, but would we want it in our real lives, especially when the dead people are rising to…vote? Probably not, yet in the New Hampshire 2012 Presidential Primaries dead voters who were [...]

On May 17, and again on May 18, 2012, Vice President Joe Biden went on a rant claiming, “They don’t get us! They don’t get who we are!” He claimed “they,” meaning the Republican Party, doesn’t get “us” poor and middle class people. His comments were a baiting of class envy, inciting the average American [...]

Don’t leave home without it. You’ll need it for almost every area of your life. If you want to drive a car, board an airplane, cash a check, open a bank account, see a doctor, rent an apartment, or get a job, you’d better have it as proof of your identity. Yet for one of [...]

Have you ever wondered how you would take over a country?  The idea of some group conspiring to take over and create radical change seems like something out of Hollywood. There have been many people in history who have strategically attempted to take over nations to impose their agendas.  One of those was Karl Marx. [...]

In April 2011, students at the University of California-Merced were asked if they would be willing to sign a petition that would allow the redistribution of their GPAs to students having trouble fulfilling graduation requirements.  Those students with an “excessive” GPA of 4.0 would have a reduction to a 3.8 and the extra 0.2 points [...]

I love sports and competition and in most cases, like in golf or football, scores are used to measure your achievement.  So it was interesting to see the recent ‘Progressive Honor Roll for 2011’ that was published by a Progressive magazine called The Nation.[1]   YES, a scorecard for Progressives on how politicians rate.  But against [...]

Today’s news is filled with stories about groups of people around the country talking about themselves as the 99%, and expressing their feelings about the 1% who “control” the economy and the capital.  I asked, “Which am I?  Am I really one of the 99%, and are the people Occupying Streets representative of me?”  My [...]