By Denis Campbell
Many read my article on how the Mind Body Spirit world is established to financially hook one into spending lots of money. Now the industry’s tactics have expanded into luring former US Presidents into pimping, errr fronting for them.
George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States has passed on the Council [...]

by Robert Reich
The health-insurance industry has finally revealed itself for what it is.
Background: The industry hates the idea that’s emerged from the Senate Finance Committee of lowering penalties on younger and healthier people who don’t buy insurance. Relying on an analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers, insurers say this means new enrollees will be older and less healthy [...]

by Robert Reich
In his Saturday radio address, President Obama acknowledged the White House is exploring “additional options to promote job creation.” It’s about time. This is the worst job market in seventy years — including the longest duration of steep job losses.
If anyone had any doubt that something far more dramatic must be done, listen [...]

By Rev. Irene Monroe
I will not be in church this Sunday, but I will be in a place where my spiritual self will be fed. I will be participating in the National Equality March (NEM) this Sunday, carrying the banner of Faith in America, an organization that is working to stop bigotry disguised as religious [...]

By Denis Campbell
The Olympic movement and its games are global. The US needs to do more to look beyond its own shores to the rest of the world and join in the global dialogue as an equal partner rather than behave as the schoolyard bully and issue demands as the world’s policeman. They may spend [...]

by Charley James
The website is clearly labelled satire and parody; in fact, it says so in very strong language on the home page for anyone who can’t figure it out for themselves. But Glenn Beck, never known for possessing a sense of wit – although some may call him a half-wit – is livid that [...]

by Charley James
For several years, professional medical journals have been drawing heavy artillery fire for not disclosing any conflicts of interest its authors have with the subject they’re covering, hyping faulty studies and publishing too many glowing articles about new pharmaceuticals that have questionable value.
This is why the latest issue of Health Affairs leaves me [...]

by Charley James
Poll analyst wunderkinder Nate Silver teams up with Markos Moulitsos of Daily Kos today to discover the public option enjoys the support of a majority of voters in all but one Blue Dog district.
Moreover, despite the pronouncements of Blue Dog Democrats in the House and Senate – as well as by Republicans – [...]

By Denis Campbell
On the 1-year anniversary of the near total meltdown of the global financial system, a week when Bush insider Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson handed over a $700 billion dollar blank cheque (with no string attached) to the USA’s largest  banks, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the US District Court of the New York [...]

By Denis Campbell
Normally a former Bible Belt Southern Baptist minister, governor of red-state Arkansas and unsuccessful Republican Presidential candidate and I would have precious little in common. But it’s time for a true confession. Mike Huckabee was indeed an inspiration to me for the last 10-months.
While Governor Huckabee and I share polar opposite political views, [...]