The Liberator Today

I have been hearing Indie Folk on some of the rock stations and I also haven't done a covers edition in a while.  The Indie Folk genre s...

You can complain about the way it did its job or what it accomplished, but by passing a continuing resolution for the rest of the year that ...

Some time ago I asked about a new name for the tea party , since it had some branding problems. Some were self-inflicted, most were not. In ...

The new normal is revealed in two graphs.   The first graph is the employment ratio comparing number employed to the total population. It dr...

Thinking things through, it seems odd that Democrats are the ones fighting against entitlement reform and Republicans the only ones pushi...

I should have known.  First, let me say that I am in favor of all forms of legalizing marijuana, so of course, I am not opposed to medical m...

Is capitalism and American ingenuity so utterly fabulous that even dedicated redistributionists like the President won't be able to kill...

The election of Father Jorge Bergoglio as Pope Francis marks what I hope is the beginning of a final set of reforms of the Catholic church. ...

I gave up blogging for a while due to the pressures of the job and school.  I am a federal employee affected by sequestration and there has ...

Despite the caterwauling on the horrible impact of sequestration that those wascally Wepublicans foisted on the poor President, it is going ...

I had the unfortunate experience of listening to two hours of MSNBC today, while waiting for my wife in a hospital waiting room.  (It was a ...

The 1990s seem like a bit of an odd time with respect to pop music.  Grunge was popular in the first half of the decade, but there doesn...

Bob Filner appears a little unhinged, and frankly unprofessional in this video from local news station NBC 7.  He hijacks a news conference ...

The New York Times would have us believe that the President faces a tough choice on the Keystone XL pipeline project.  The only tough choic...

The Colorado House of Representatives passed four bills placing restrictions on gun possession today. Among the proposals are bills that ...

San Diego Mayor, Bob Filner, has been keeping silent about his views on the 2% hotel tax.  I previously argued that I thought the tax viol...

I missed the delivery of the State of the Union (SOTU) address tonight, but read the text.  As usual, the President has conveniently forgott...

I find myself partially agreeing with Mayor Filner on the subject of San Diego's hotel tax .  He has stalled on signing the contract ...

This weekend's music is from my childhood.  Pop liked Ian & Sylvia, and their music still get stuck in my head sometimes. Here the...

The actual headline from the NY Times was "Obama Urges Congress to Act to Stave Off Cuts."  No matter, the President again fails ...