So where do we go from here?
Time travel doesn't exist.If you weren't aware of that already, now you are. Congratulations. We can't change what happened yesterday. We can fill up the rec list and spend all our time arguing about...
View ArticleTed Koppel And The Real Death Of "Real News"
During my suspension weekend before last I got an email from the delightfully and improbably named Autumn Brewington, inviting me to contribute an Op-Ed piece to The Washington Post on the topic of...
View ArticleWhat A Difference A Few Decades Make
"The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little." - Franklin D. RooseveltSometimes I wonder what has...
View ArticleMy mother's books
This is a story that piggy-backs on three generations.When I was a child, coming into some sense of family consciousness and history in the late 1960's and early 1970's, my mother used to tell me...
View ArticleRedState and Conservatives: Making it up as they go along...Again
The title Wisconsin cops & firemen break their oaths.The reasoningThat there is anyway merely confirms why the notorious small-government conservative FDR was entirely correct in opposing public...
View ArticleA Note About Fascism
In my earlier diary I noted that the wingnuts have taken to quoting Franklin D Roosevelt to support their anti-union stance.However they avoid this one like the plague."The liberty of democracy is not...
View ArticleApril 12, 1945: A Photo Diary
Note: I am republishing this diary that I posted two years ago. The diary got a nice response the first time, and the comments were outstanding. JekyllnHyde contributed great cartoons, ArtSchmart had...
View ArticleA deficit worth wiping out: "Faith, Hope and Charity"
(Note: I'm running for Town Council in Berkeley Heights, NJ this year. My website will have an online contribution system soon!) By Stephen YellinIn this era of economic hardship, it seems our nation's...
View ArticleH is for Hoover: Obama's USA TODAY Editorial
Barack H. Obama wrote an editorial today:Go 'big' on debt deal By President ObamaUSA TODAY Forum July 21, 2011Neither party is blameless for the decisions that led to this debt, but both parties have a...
View Article"Some Rob You with a Six-Gun, Some with a Fountain Pen"
London is now filled with young people in the streets looting the shops that line their neighborhoods. The capitalist economic system has left them without adequate schools or jobs; their schools are...
View ArticleMore Class War Mini-Cine: "Tramps and Millionaires"
Howdy, pards.More video fun. Putting together Clark's vid last week was fun, and I'll have another half-assed artsy music vid next week, but today we're back to the politics of class warfare.
View ArticleHow 'They' Made Roosevelt 'Do It’
Work hard and play by the rules and you will achieve the American Dream. This booster phrase is what makes America unique.‘ Unique’ or ‘exceptional’ implies better.Yet people in the developed world...
View ArticleEconomic Democracy - Economic Populism
Why would anyone be morally bound or wish to be morally bound to a civil society that does not share the goal that it’s citizens deserve a fair distribution of wealth, income and power? If the civil...
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OBAMA WH TO CUT TPS REPORTS: updated 3
I was alerted by this brave diary on DailyKos that the DASTARDLY Obama administration is going to get rid of FDR's holy TPS reports and, I hesitate to even type this, the cover sheets. In his rush to...
View ArticleOnce Again, my 2007 Labor Day Diary
Cross-posted at Docudharma and Progressive Blue.This diary was no hit in 2007. Long and far too dull for this community, the diary was aptly titled People to Remember on May Day American Style. It is...
View ArticlePeople to Remember on Labor Day
This diary was not a hit in 2007 and yesterday there was no evidence of anyone here actually reading or acknowledging some of the great Americans who made Labor day what it is.So I'll just post it...
View ArticleOnce Again, my 2007 Labor Day Diary
This diary was not a hit in 2007 and yesterday there was no evidence of anyone here actually reading or acknowledging some of the great Americans who made Labor day what it is. It wasn't a hit today...
View ArticleThe Economy: A Comparison of the Present and FDR's Day
In the early 1930s, the nation relined on the markets and not government to revive an economy that was deep into Great Depression. In 1932, the people elected Franklin D. Roosevelt to use government...
View ArticleThe conservative who saved the New Deal (part 2 of 2)
by Stephen YellinYesterday I covered the first part of the story of Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican who ultimately held the fate of millions of Americans in his hands as Chief Justice of the...
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Why I Vote For Democrats: Social Security
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat, signed the Social Security Act into law. Since that time, Social Security has been protected by Democratic presidents and Democratic...
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