One of the most remarkable statements to come out of last week’s presidential debates was Romney’s claim about Obama’s energy policies. Romney claimed that Obama had wasted 90 billion dollars in subsidies and loans on renewable energy, and that half…
Every once and a while I like to take time out to analyze standard Republican talking points. I like to see if the things that Republicans breathlessly state as dogma do in fact make any sense. Today I want to…
One of the constant tropes of the conservative populi is some variation of the bread and circus argument. The idea that liberals and Democrats, to lure people to vote for them, will simply offer more freebies to their base so…
In a new op-ed on the Huffington Post, Michelle Rhee goes into a long discussion of the problems with schools in poverty areas: “It’s not easy to complete your homework if your electricity has been cut off, you don’t have…
Much ink has been spilled over the Paul Ryan VP Pick and whether it is the game change the Romney campaign needed to win in November. I don’t think Ryan has an effect on the electoral hopes of the GOP…
Whenever I end up in a conversation with a conservative about taxes I often feel like we’re talking past one another. This is both our faults because when we’re talking taxes we’re often looking at different sides of the ledger.…
As provocative as that title is I’m not making an entirely hyperbolic claim. Let me be clear from the outset, I’m not claiming that Republicans are un-American, or that their policies are anathema to democracy. This post in fact has…
Lost in much of the talk about our failing economy is the real disparity of income that has existed along racial lines. This is mostly because this information is nothing new. For as long as we have been keeping data…
Regardless of the outcome of the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act one thing is certain. The supposed veneer of impartiality of the court has grown so thin most Americans don’t believe it exists. The fact of the matter is…
I found out that what I do here can kind of be described as system thinking. The basic idea of system thinking is to understand how things influence one another within the whole. What I try to do here is…