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The apparently irresistible campaign contributions and lobbying that seduced national and state legislators into signing onto privatization and deregulation schemes over the past decades brought us the current economic mess. The push for nuclear power is more of the same, kind of a group-think, ideological commitment unimpeded by critical analysis and driven by an eyes-on-profits fixation. Under-funded anti-nuclear groups across the planet have been trying to make the following points for years about nuclear power…

By prompting people like Lynn Tilton to decide that “enough is enough.”

Well, to be honest, as a neighbor tells it, Lynn Tilton is responsible for the rescue of the paper mill in Gorham, NH because her father came to her in a dream and said that taking the two million dollars from the settlement of her sex discrimination law suit and retiring early was the wrong way to go.

Can an anti-woman, anti-black, anti-senior, anti-sick, anti-worker, anti-unemployed, anti-poor, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-education, anti-union, anti-peace, anti-environment, anti-science, anti-Wall-Street-reform, anti-Geneva-Convention, anti-world presidential candidate win?* That seems unfair. Let me re-phrase it. Can a candidate wishing to robo-sign teapublican ... Read on →

Becoming South Carolina’s lieutenant governor in March just might have saved Glenn McConnell’s life. “People have said ever since I came down here, I look healthier and I’ve been healing faster,” said McConnell, the powerful Senate president ... Read on →

As expected, North Carolina voters passed a constitutional amendment yesterday stating “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized." Polls had always shown the amendment had ... Read on →

I am a Democrat, and I am proud of it. However, the S.C. Press Association distributes this column, and neither they nor I want it to be a weekly partisan rant — there’s far too much of ... Read on →

I recently served on a panel at the 64th Annual Conference on World Affairs that was titled “How Liberals Think,” a question I’ve pondered as long as I can remember. Beyond the classic dictionary [New Oxford American ... Read on →

Government by the people is the ultimate DIY enterprise. Mainly, we benefit each other by taking turns. Conservatives are people who, for whatever reason, do not know where their interests lie. And, having no basis for ... Read on →

Huey P. Long is surely the most assassinated figure in American political history. Although he was murdered only once – bullet holes still visible in the marble around the ground floor elevators in ... Read on →

Do South Carolinians hate government? Is there something within our political DNA here in the Palmetto State that causes us to hate government – all governments? Some recent polling numbers would seem to say ... Read on →

The term "fundamentalist ideology" probably evokes the idea of Islamic fanaticism to many, Christian or Jewish extremists to others, but rarely are the promoters of capitalism associated with the term. Yet, there is ... Read on →

A two-fer, if ever there was one. According to the White House Press office, both the First Lady and the President spoke. However, despite Republican carping about the President using the official plane ... Read on →

I have come both reluctantly and late to the belief that President Obama will lose re-election unless he moves, and moves quickly, to prosecute the main Wall Street malefactors of the 2008 economic ... Read on →

The vote on July 31 on whether to add a penny sales tax for transportation in 12 different regions of Georgia is problematic at ... Read on →

I have never met Howard Rich. And I expect that if I ever did – say, at a party or a backyard cook out ... Read on →

High court needs to rule on 1993 school funding case. It takes four years for most high school students to graduate from high school. Most ... Read on →

Pre-conceived notions are funny. They make a sunny day cloudy. They make the successful Department of Justice prosecution of banksters and fraudulent mortgage brokers, ... Read on →

Nearly a hundred years after the publication of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation (2001) documents a full-circle return to the ... Read on →

Who wants to intervene in the Syrian civil war? Opinion polls on both sides of the Atlantic make it clear that while events in Syria are tragic there ... Read on →

The filing period for Democratic and Republican candidates running for the upcoming SC State House and Senate elections closed last week. We will not know the exact election ... Read on →

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's new book is sure to cause three differing reactions: Tea partiers will fall in love with Haley again for wearing their white hat and ... Read on →

Scarcely two years have passed since excited crowds of Tea Party activists thundered fervent evocations of individual liberty and yet today there is only a faint echo of ... Read on →

The Republicans in the Georgia legislature managed to find a "compromise" that would allow them to finally pass a 20 week ban on abortions.  The Senate proposal to ... Read on →