Sequestration

Hang on Obama, don't let the radicals wear you down.

Popular Student Majors

What do the following have in common?
Human biology
Finance
Supply chain management
Advertising
Kinesiology
These are the most popular majors for seniors at Michigan State University.  No common pattern emerges for me.

Drug Wars

"Projected annual Mexican drug cartels stand to  lose from pot legalization in Colorado and Washington: $1,400,000,000."  Harper's Index, Febr. 2013.
Over 500 murders were committed in Chicago last lear, many drug war related.
When will we give up our irrational and ineffective prohibitions against drugs and turn attention  to reducing demand via clinics, etc?

Let The Blood Flow

Hang on Obama, don't let the radicals wear you down.  If a 15 % cut across the board is the price for reducing the bloated military, so be it.

Afghanistan

What have we achieved in Afghanistan?  The biggest business in Kabul is extravagant weddings of the elite.  Each week planeloads of US dollars leave Kabul for Europe.  The poor of the country will hardly notice if we leave.

Tea Party

It has been a mystery to me why middle class Tea Party members were bitterly opposing tax increases on the super rich until I read that the multi- billionaire Koch Brothers bankroll the Tea Party.

Atheists Rise UP

"The absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth."  Susan Jacoby writing in the NYT, January 6, 2012.  She continues, "We must speak up as atheists in order to take responsibility for whatever it is humans are responsible for--including violence in our streets and schools.  We need to demonstrate that atheism is rooted in empathy as well as intellect."