About time, but I guess better late than never.

Posted at March 27, 2008 12:35 PM in response to House Panel to Seek Hearing with Jailed Alabama Ex-Gov

Better late than never. This should have happened several months ago.

Posted at March 27, 2008 12:34 PM in response to House Panel to Seek Hearing with Jailed Alabama Ex-Gov

I listened to the entire sermons Wright gave. He is not anti-American. He is a fierce opponent of our government when it does racist and anti-christian deeds. Context is everything. If you only watch the 30 second clips you will remain ignorant.

Posted at March 25, 2008 3:38 PM in response to Hillary Finance Committee Member Compares Wright And David Duke, Says Obama "Used Race Where It Suited Him"

This doesn't make any sense. It's pure gibberish. By the way, Michigan and Ohio are not the same. Just ask Gore and Kerry.

Posted at February 7, 2008 9:31 PM in response to Just Do The Math

Great post. You've convinced this boomer.

Posted at April 11, 2007 8:16 PM in response to Why Real Reform is Necessary--and Politically Possible.

Your agenda looks like it was copied from a campaign pamphlet. Why don't we just discuss what concerns most Americans? The topics would be Iraq, health care, and jobs. Global warming is actually becoming an important topic too.

Posted at April 3, 2007 11:02 AM in response to In Search of Common Ground

Because they don't any landfills to haul the garbage to!

Posted at March 13, 2007 7:49 PM in response to States Taking Action on Bad Trade Deals

In Michigan, we have to accept garbage brought to our landfills from Toronto, Canada. Michigan has no say about this. Because of NAFTA, we can't turn away their garbage. The people of Canada have a huge amount of undeveloped land in Ontario but their own politics have prevented them from developing enough landfills. These trade agreements really can override state and even federal laws.

Posted at March 12, 2007 7:53 PM in response to States Taking Action on Bad Trade Deals

Sorry, I wrote Argentina when I meant Columbia. It is getting late.

Posted at March 3, 2007 7:56 PM in response to Back to Substance

Sorry to see you go back to work (we must take care of our families), it's been fun and instructive. I especially like this last posting. You have shown that trade is a very complicated problem. I think that it's also apparent that we really cannot trust our leaders to make good deals for the average worker. Labor, environmental, and human rights issues are routinely dismissed as irrelevant to trade. Our current trade agreements are negotiated for the benefit of entities like Coca-Cola, Goldman-Sachs, General Electric or powerful farming interests like Archer Daniels Midland. Also, are we rewarding and extending the reign of totalitarian regimes with our trade pacts? China has not opened up its political process because of increased trade. Will Argentina? Can we really have fair trade with a government controlled economy? Can the American middle class survive the rapid export of investment capital, factories and services? These questions deserved to be answered by our government before any new agreements are ratified. When we get some answers then previous trade pacts should be renegotiated or scrapped if they're harmful. If you think Lou Dobbs is popular now, wait until the middle class gets even more squeezed. It won't be pretty.

Posted at March 3, 2007 7:50 PM in response to Back to Substance