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Bailing out the Economy: Round Two

Congress is set to vote on the Bush’s $700+ Billion plan again tonight. Added to the bill were provisions to “…add tax breaks for businesses and the middle class and increase deposit insurance…”
Yahoo reports that calls in opposition to the Bill have dropped to 50-50 instead of 90% against. Hopefully House Leader Nancy Pelosi [...]

How To make the US a dictatorship in ten easy steps

I like conspiracy theories and hoaxes as the next guy. I try not to believe them, but some items really make me wonder.
Letting the FBI engage in warrant-less spying on Americans is one of those items.
1.) Create an enemy. 9/11 did this admirably, even more so if you believe it might have been engineered [...]

Sorry, we can’t fix the World until we fix ourselves

This is the hardest single truth to tell. America can no longer afford to fix the world until we fix ourselves. This means taking a long hard look at where the money is going and reducing certain expenditures. The fact that the US is entering some economic hard times is still in doubt, although I [...]

Discrimination: adding DNA doesn’t go far enough.

Today is DNA day, the 55th anniversary since James Watson and Francis Crick published their article on the structure of DNA and introduced us to the now widely known symbol, the Double Helix.
Today is also the day Congress has voted to ban genetic discrimination. The President is expected to sign it into law.
While I’ve [...]