Many liberals argue the people have not gotten the government they deserve. Morris Berman disagrees, saying that the sorry state of Washington these days is a reflection of the sorry state of the people.

The September jobs report is out: The private sector gained 64,000 jobs in September…  The public sector lost 159,000. And they weren’t all census jobs, either. Local governments fired 76,000 workers. In other words, this is the first jobs report in recent months that isn’t driven by census layoffs. If there were no census jobs [...]

Corporations given okay to trade slaves in ruling.

The government’s Census statistics about poverty in America are lies.

I’m just saying, let’s keep our perspective regarding the importance of the various crimes by religious institutions against society.

The Republicans use shoddy parts, and the Democrats use shoddy design. In the end the outcome is essentially the same. Except for one compounding issue…

What are the 850,000 people in the new, enlarged intelligence community doing?

Be afraid, be very afraid. Especially gun owners & those with foreign houses or offshore bank accounts.

The Washington Post’s great investigative series on the top-secret network of govt. and contractors has enraged rightwingers but deserves journalism’s highest prize.

New news from BP/Government indicates as much as we don’t know, there’s more that we don’t know than we thought we knew we didn’t know.

When one is looking at any system, whether it is a business process or something even more complex it always helps to know what the end state is or what the purpose is. This holds true when we are talking about our government as well. What is the purpose of government? If we do not [...]