OBAMA’S EXECUTIVE ORDER TO ALLOW FEDERAL FUNDS TO BE EMPLOYED IN STEM CELL RESEARCH—AT LONG LAST! THE BUSH ORDER DENYING STEM CELL RESEARCH HAS COST THOUSANDS OF CRITICALLY ILL AMERICANS A POTENTIAL CURE! It is past time that the religious right including the Catholic Church and the Evange...

THE REPUBLICAN ATTEMPT TO OBLITERATE THE DEMOCRATIC BRAND   A POLITICAL PARTY—THE GOP-- THAT WILL NOT STEAL SILENTLY INTO THE GOOD NIGHT—AFTER THEY WERE RESOUNDINGLY DEFEATED IN NOVEMBER IS TRYING THROUGH LIES, MISINTERPRETATIONS, AND JUST PLAIN SLANDER TO EXTINGUISH THE BRAND THAT PR...

(photo design by Pandapple) Here's some new math for you fans of subtraction.  What was once a trio of players from defunct acts (two former members of The Blood Brothers and one from Pretty Girls Make Graves) has now officially become a duo, with news that drummer Jay Clark has left Jaguar Love. ...

THE OBAMA SPEECH WAS ONE OF THE FINEST “STATE OF THE UNION” ADDRESSES I HAVE HEARD SINCE JFK AND FDR THANK GOD, WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO CAN SPEAK, CAN COME UP WITH INVENTIVE ANSWERS TO OUR CRISIS AND CAN MOVE THE CONGRESS AND THE NATION TO ACTION! Obama presented one of the most thorough a...

NETANYAHU WOULD BE A DISASTER FOR A PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI PEACE PACT   AT A TIME WHEN A NEW U. S. PRESIDENT WILL ACTIVELY SUPPORT A “TWO STATE SOLUTION” TO THE MIDDLE EASTERN STALEMATE, IT WOULD WRONG TO HAVE A MAN LIKE NETANYAHU IN OFFICE.   The political milieu in Israel is confu...

“PATRIOTISM IS THE LAST REFUGE OF SCOUNDRELS”AND THE MOST MALEVOLENT SCOUNDRELS RESIDE ON THE FAR RIGHT SIDE OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM I will not soon forget sitting in the living room of our Florida home casually talking about the upcoming 2008 election. Our long time friends have always ...

“WASTEFUL SPENDING,” “PORK,” AND “TAX AND SPEND” ARE THE ONLY WORDS REPUBLICANS CAN USE TO DESCRIBE “THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT PLAN!” THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A TIME WHEN I HAVE HAD LESS RESPECT FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THAN I DO IN THEIR WOEFULLY GRE...

PELOSI AND HER HOUSE LEADERSHIP DROPPED THE BALL WHEN WRITING THE STIMULUS BILL AND CREATED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT TROUBLE FOR THE NEW PRESIDENT THE REPUBLICANS ARE IN A RUT. HERBERT HOOVER DIED OCTOBER 24, 1964 BUT THE FAR RIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN CLIQUE CONTINUE TO EMBRACE HIS DO- NOTHING FREE MARK...

THE STIMULUS--OBAMA, THE DEMOCRATS, AND THE REPUBLICANS   It seems like only yesterday that Paulson was pleading with the Congress to pass a $750 billion TART (Troubled Asset Relief Program) that was going directly to some of the country’s largest banks, brokerage firms and insurance compa...

ANN COULTER IS SUFFERING FROM A CRITICAL CASE OF PARANOIA--IN MY HUMBLE OPINION   Ann Coulter recently appeared on the Today show with Matt Lauer. She has a new book out and obviously it is filled with the same right wing propaganda that has filled all of her other books. She never says anythin...