( I put up this post on my blog last week, a few days after our governor here in Kansas, Sam Brownback, signed into law what is likely to be one of the worst, most destructive pieces of legislation this state has ever seen. Today, a radically shortened version of ...

The November presidential election is still five-and-a-half months away, which means there is still plenty of time for me to change my mind, and then change my mind again. About the likely outcome, of course (though given that I still think, seven months after my last prediction, that Mitt Romney ...

Walter Brasch argues that doing away with the rhetorical distinction between the "1%" and the "99%" is good for the economic justice movement. Do you agree? Post comments below!   It’s time to retire the 99 percent. Not the people, but the slogan that identifies the Occupy Movement. “We’re the 99 percent” slogan focused ...

Last year, not one of the 491,687 new minivans sold in the United States was made in America by unionized workers. Some were manufactured overseas by companies owned by non-American manufacturers. The Kia Sedona, with 24,047 sales, was built in South Korea, Russia, and the Philippines. The MAZDA5, with 19,155 sales, ...

Medical studies funded by drug companies have only lately "discovered" the onset of cancer, diabetes and autism is "not caused" by agents outside the body, but brought on by your own susceptible, read "defective' DNA. They're a passive creation with no visible perpetration rather like saying 93,000 women were raped in 2005 in the USA. Of course without mentioning the 93,000 men and their evil intentions who actually did the ...

Originally posted at All Education Matters. While millions of Americans will join the indentured educated class after graduation this Spring, policy analysts focused their attention on money going directly to the institutions of higher education. The issue at hand last week? Pell Grants. I want to make it clear: I am not against ...

There’s nothing to suggest that in his 51 years Kevin June should be a leader. Not from his high school where he dropped out after his freshman year. Not from his job, where he worked as an auto body technician for more than 35 years. Both of his marriages ended in divorce, but ...

Occupy SF is celebrating a victory today after successfully regaining momentum and occupying a vacant building in San Francisco last night. April 1st marked a nation-wide day of action where Occupy camps in over 13 cities reclaimed their right to exist through demonstrations, marches and occupations. Occupy SF, after being forced ...

Feb 1, 2012: SumOfUs posts a popular image used by media outlets today to reflect the worker conditions at Chinese "sweatshops." "Ethical capitalism" is a fantasy embraced and fetishized by the liberal/professional left.     New Delusion for 2012: SumOfUs ...Like all good Imperialists, the Philanthropoids set themselves the task of creating and training an international ...

So let me get this straight. First, the banks make loads of bad mortgages. Then, the government bails them out. Fannie and Freddie end up with tons of foreclosures on their books, and now those banks that started the mess get to cash-in on Fannie and Freddie’s need to dump ...