In the U.S., rising income inequality has been called the greatest threat to our democracy. And for good reason: Studies have shown that in countries where the rich make vastly more than the middle class and poor, support for ...READ»
Last week, an embattled Governor Schwarzenegger gave an exasperated thanks to his Twitter followers for suggesting ways California could squeeze revenue into the state budget. As government waste stacks more zeros onto California’s ...READ»
Democratic management is all the rage: big time players like Southwest, meetup.com, and General Electric have all jumped on the populist bandwagon. The democracy evangelists have quite convincingly extolled the strategic value of ...READ»
We thought this day would never come.
I cried in the voting booth yesterday. Like so many others, I had barely let myself believe that this could really happen– a woman and an African American, serious contenders on a ...READ»
I want to talk about leadership. I want to talk about a facet of the present American political climate, and I ask you to weigh in on this issue.
We have always elected leaders who we believe in, who we feel we can relate to. But ...READ»
The Ten Commandments Revised (As of some time in 2001 per George W. Bush)
According to his personal statements Mr. George W. Bush, as President of the World’s most powerful nation in history, was flying Air Force 1 and being ...READ»
Watching a World Stop
Makes This a Difficult Evening
Whose world this is I think I know.
Man’s home is on the soils below;
They have not seen me starting here
To watch their world fill up with ...READ»
The Right Age for Drinking Whatever When properly analyzed it becomes terribly obvious why the majority of Americans want to have the right age for the legal drinking of alcohol. Want to know why? Well, simply put, they are ...READ»
Now, who could possibly be the best? Even better who is married to anyone who can totally represent them when it comes to all of the issues we now face as a nation, state, city, county, etc.?
It is very obvious that no one can ...READ»
When I was in college, I worked for a non-profit, unaffiliated organization that registered people to vote, specifically targeting young people. We would drive to supermarkets and movie theaters, wherever there was foot-traffic, and ...READ»
