by Robert Reich
The loss of 36,000 jobs in February is better than expected but it’s still miserable. 26,000 were lost in January, according to the government’s revised figures. And the “underemployment” rate — including jobless workers who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who want full time jobs — rose from 16.5% [...]

by Carl Matthes
Hypersex has hit the headlines. Obviously, too many males are unable to control their raging testosterone and bad judgment.
It’s gotten so prevalent that, according to Shari Roan in the March 1 edition of the Los Angeles Times, the American Psychiatric Association has proposed that “out-of-control sexual  appetites be included in the next edition [...]

by: Robert Reich
Not long ago I was debating someone on television. I thought the discussion was going well until the commercial break when a producer said into my earpiece “be angrier.”
“Why should I be angrier?” I asked him, irritated that he hadn’t appreciated the thoughtfulness of debate.
“That’s how we get channel surfers to stop and [...]

By Denis Campbell
As we have seen in the blizzards in Washington and New York 100s of crews of snowploughs and front-end loaders work feverishly to open roads, airports and railway tracks. But, what if you lived in the Cheyenne Sioux Indian Reservation of South Dakota and there were only three snowploughs to clear an area [...]

by Monroe Anderson
Whether it’s Sarah Palin, Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mike Pence, Michael Steele or Rush Limbaugh, you can almost always count on Republican leadership to say something stupid.
In some cases–take Palin for example–the simple-minded statements come from an uniformed mind. In other cases–take Limbaugh this time–it’s a matter of fabrications, [...]

by Denis Campbell
Got $3 million dollars? Have a ‘unique’ product to sell in :30 seconds? Want to reach a 100 million plus people audience in the USA? Then the American football Super Bowl is the place for you to blow the entire wad that quickly!
Since Apple Computer launched the Macintosh computer with a 1-minute tribute [...]

by Denis Campbell
Welcome to the toughest 1st year in the loneliest job in the world. Good that you have a dog and you’re not in Kansas anymore Mr. President. You approached the utter disaster left by the previous occupant with a determination, grit, grace and pragmatism that has long been missing.
Now sir you have to [...]

One year on from inauguration and month on from Copenhagen what has happened to our hope that the US would finally act on climate justice?
by Iestyn Davies
Anniversaries come and go.  But none have passed with greater significance to those of us concerned with climate justice than Obama’s first year in office.  In this policy field [...]

UPDATED By Denis Campbell
(Republican Scott Brown wins 52%-47% with 70% turnout on a snowy day. Losing sucks, message heard?)
Martha Coakley will squeak to a narrow victory later in today’s Massachusetts special election, even though a media fire storm and feeding frenzy is under way for the contested Senate seat held for 47-years until his death last fall by Ted [...]

(UPDATED) by Charley James
It turns out that Scrooge – Ebenezer or McDuck, take your pick – is alive and well and running the Canadian province of Alberta . On Thursday, Conservative Premier Ed Stelmach told reporters the provincial government wouldn’t be donating a nickel of its lush, oil-and-gas royalty enriched treasury stash to aid in Haitian relief [...]