Category: News and Opinion

As I said before: truth by its very nature is controversial. And since my first column with this title, I have had to defend a president of whom I have been critical at times; and with whom I disagree on quite a wide range of policy-approaches and position-takes in both foreign-policy and domestic spheres. Look; I am a man who loves to give Jack his jacket and Jim his gym shoes: thus I must give President Barack Obama his props (as they say in the hood).

Memo to OK Occupy Wall Street (and Occupy Albany): The Governor tried to fuck you; will you now at least endorse the "Millionaire's Tax?

Remember, revenge tastes sweet at nearly any temperature.

Did anyone expect that, with nothing left to hold over his head, Joe’d get any less annoying?

Apparently some of the same issues are present in Europe as in the United States, but across the Atlantic someone has been willing to call them out. According to the Financial Times, commenting on the young taking to the streets from Spain to New York, “politicians have…largely failed to address the issue of intergenerational equity.” While the young protesters are criticized for demanding the redistribution of income “in reality, many policy choices over past decades have themselves been redistributive – in favour of the baby-boomer generation at the expense of their children and especially towards the privileged top end of that generation.”

Right wing kooks, probably the most intolerant people on the planet, are pointing an accusatory finger at the Occupy Wall Street protestors and charging them with being anti Semitic.  This is probably quite a hilarious accusation considering that many of the protestors are themselves Jewish and in fact organizers celebrate Jewish holidays at their park location.

Yes, I'm sure if I went over every single word, I'd find something here to annoy, if not infuriate me, in this Phil Ochs song, but right now I'm so happy I just have to link this–"I believe, the war is over!" The War Is Over – Phil Ochs www.youtube.com Uncategorized

Ronald Reagan wanted Qaddafi.  He did not get him.  Bush wanted Bin Laden and he did not get him.  This is because they did not have the instinctive military genius of President Obama.  The president knew that victory went to the side that had superior military technology and he used that advantage.  He deployed highly trained boots on the ground Navy Seals to terminate Bin Laden and he used drones and our eye in the sky without need for a boots