Thomas Frank in What's the Matter with Kansas: Not long ago, Kansas would have responded to the current situation by making the bastards pay. This would have been a political certainty, as predictable as what happens when you touch a match to a puddle of gasoline. When business screwed the farmers a...

In politics there are those who support and defend causes and those who fight them. There are those who like to complain into the ether and those who like to speak to the source. And then there are the whiners. There are also those of us who are foolish enough to think we can make change. We think p...

A lot has been made of Obama's trip to the combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. While the media salivates all over his coattails, they are missing serious flaws in his logic and policy decisions. Our country has long had a military strategy that allows us to fight on two fronts with reserves t...

Expand successful Medicare program to all July 30 is the 43rd anniversary of the passage of Medicare. Medicare began because no one except the government was willing to cover the oldest and sickest of us. … … Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan is a grass-roots citizens’ movement th...

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann: DEMOCRATS' single most important domestic proposal - universal health insurance - may blow up in Barack Obama's face when voters are exposed to the deadly details. Obama has said, proudly and often, "I am going to give health insurance to 47 million Americans who are n...

May 29 Above: What I would be reading online if I didn't have a book review to complete by Monday. Below: my old political activist buddy and ACT (America Coming Together) boss/partner Bob Harris is making some waves in Atlanta, where I understand there are some opportunities for the talented colore...

by Rosanna Pulido No, you did not see the story covered by English speaking media, but it's here on Illinois Review. HOY news paper covered the story and it is a story worth covering, especially because this insanity has been crippling Hospitals across the nation for years. The story is about an 18 ...

You've probably seen the news stories recently about how late-night comedians are having trouble finding ways to poke fun at Obama. (No? Check out this piece from the Times last week.) The gist is that there's really nothing about him that screams "Make fun of me!" He's intelligent, articulate, comm...

The awesome new CD, GET YOU A HEALIN', is a compilation of New Orleans bands and interesting collaborations to benefit the New Orleans Musician's Clinic. This is a great service for musicians without health insurance (yours truly in that number). Some of the bands are : Smilin' Myron, Tiny Town, the...

Surprising Answer Technician's Bill A manufacturing plant was in full swing one day. The company's massive machine was humming along, taking in the raw materials at one end and churning out the finished product at the other. All of a sudden, the machine stopped and ground to a halt. Workers climbed ...