With only one day left before the highly-touted Iowa caucuses, the rather pathetic pack of  Republican presidential wanna-bees  are frantically blanketing every corner of the state in search for votes.  I have little doubt that ordinary Iowans will be glad when the whole damn thing is over, and the rhetoric of ass-kissing politicians from Texas, Massachusetts and Georgia can be turned down a notch or two.  It just seems as if everything about the Iowa Caucuses brings out the extreme side of politicians.  Each candidate furiously  tries to establish himself, …

As we all can so clearly recall, a disgraceful show of Republican partisanship and recalcitrance last August  nearly brought the country to the point of  financial default.  A last minute deal was reached between moderate Republicans  and Democrats that forced the Obama Administration to agree to deep cuts in domestic spending with no increases in revenues.  At that time  a large contingent of Congressional Tea Party adherents voted against any increase at all in the debt limit ceiling, preferring the near-total collapse of America’s social safety net to a higher …

Today, October 20, 2011,  the world can join together with all Libyans in celebrating the demise of Moammar Gadhafi.  After a long and bloody struggle, the liberation forces announced that Gadhafi was killed while attempting to escape from the town of Sirte, located in his tribal homeland.  Libya‘s Interim Prime Minister, Mahmoud Jibril,  also announced that Gadhafi’s sons, Mutassim and Saif al-Islam were  killed along with their father,  although reports of the deaths of Gadhafi’s sons have not yet been verified.   There is little doubt that the people of Libya …