By Glen Ford The strength of the federal economic stimulus package is seriously diluted by the fact that many of the manufactured goods that will be purchased for the attempted recovery must be imported from outside the United States. America simply doesn’t make lots of things, anymore. That means many billions of dollars that folks [...]
It’s a little hard to keep your eye on the ball of U.S. foreign policy when it appears to be playing out at so many different places on the earth. Just this week we have had two “summits” of sorts, as Barack Obama has visited Canada and Hillary Clinton has warmed up her Secretary of [...]
Studies of animal behavior have discovered something about that behavior that also seems to apply to human beings. They have observed that a barnyard with a number of chickens will engage in a great deal of conflict behavior when they are first put in that yard and whenever a handful of grain is thrown into [...]
by Margaret Kimberley In just three weeks, the Barack Obama administration has demonstrated its determination to hold on to the same presidential prerogatives claimed by George W. Bush. Bush’s successor evidently wants the same prerogatives and he wants to get them through by the same means. Obama supporters either don’t care or are too deep [...]
Two nights ago, I and 15 other members of a play-reading group to which I belong read a play by Robert Anderson that I had selected, “You Know I Can’t Hear You When the Water’s Running.” This is a collection of four short “sex comedies,” the title one of which is sub-titled “The Shock of [...]
by michael hureaux perez I live in White Center, which is on the southwest border of Seattle City limits. Life in White Center has been dicey for a long time, the old joke about the area is that “it ain’t so white and it ain’t so centered.” Originally, it was a farming community with the [...]
Shortly after President-elect Obama named Thomas Daschle as his choice to be Secretary for Health and Human Services, I wrote a piece on this web log detailing some “ethical” problems with the appointment. My focus was on the background of his (and his wife’s) cozy connections with the health care industry between the time in [...]
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