Ben Tanosborn
Political conservatism went onstage this past week (February 18-20) in the nation’s capital with some new faces taking leading roles, while the true and tried actors of old conservatism resorted to a thicker coat of Obama-hate makeup in order to stay visible. It was the largest annual gathering of conservatives sponsored by CPAC [...]
Ben Tanosborn
At long last we find ourselves not needing to give President Barack Obama any more rope with which to hang himself. Most Americans, not just those professing progressive leanings, should now clearly see this hoped-for prophet of change wearing presidential vestments in the empire’s colors of military red, corporate white and phony-politics blue. Nothing [...]
Ben Tanosborn
Are we slowly coming out of a major recession, or will it turn into a double or even triple-dip recession thanks to the government’s infusion of capital that this nation neither has, nor will be able to pay back in the future to a lender? Several prominent economists, Prof. [...]
Ben Tanosborn
American progressives don’t appear to grasp the implications behind the fact that only slightly over half of those who voted in the last presidential election (53%) did so for Barack Obama, presumably to bring change for Americans as individuals, and also as a nation. And that the counter-reformists, who comprised a lion’s share of [...]
Ben Tanosborn
Another first Monday in September to signal the end of summer for most everyone here in the United States; while for a small minority of Americans, Labor Day continues to mark the annual set-aside time to pay tribute to the working men and women in the labor movement who so bravely fought to bring [...]
Ben Tanosborn
Klutziness by Obama in trying to marshal public support for health-care reform is now erasing the last remaining dash of hope held by the true progressive crowd; and even the most loyal and patient among them appear ready to throw in the towel. Perhaps there were too many of them that, during the last [...]
In less than two weeks, Afghanistan will hold its second presidential elections since the United States occupied that country in November 2001. Democratic elections, we deem them to be, although many Afghans and foreigners alike consider the process more of an American coronation of another vassal-monarch from that celebrated dynasty: the House of Dollar. Of [...]
By Ben Tanosborn
For a politician, being articulate and intelligent, even when saying the “right things” to please friends’, foes’ and fence-sitters’ ears, does not imply existence of wisdom or, for that matter, leadership. We have just placed such a politician in the White House to take on the reins of this nation, and from day [...]
By Ben Tanosborn
Had William Shakespeare been reincarnated as a modern-day president of the United States, he might have modified one of his more famous quotes to say: “the better part of justice is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my presidency.” It did apply to Gerald Ford with his pardon of Richard [...]
By Ben Tanosborn
Call it a presidential pardon, restitutive intervention, or simply a gesture of international goodwill; call it whatever you wish� just so the bottom line allows for wrong to be finally righted. And that long-argued wrong has been the imprisonment in the United States of the “penta-cubanitos” for over a decade.
Most Americans have never [...]
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