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By David Grossack Updated: 05/08/08 3:22 PM THE CONSERVATISM OF COMFORT: UNDERSTANDING THE BUCKLEY LEGACY
If there is any doubt that the old adage "Labels are for jars' is true, the example of the late William F Buckley, Jr. resolves the question.
Mr. Buckley’s name has become synonymous with the "conservative" label. But most of the record he left behind indicates that his politics were more eclectic than anything else. It is also observed that ‘conservative" now means so many different things to different people that perhaps the label is now obsolete.
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Updated: 02/19/08 11:12 AM TOTAL BOYCOTT OF INDIA NECESSARY
Quick Summary: Citizens Justice Institute calls for world wide mass action to end mistreatment of Dalit people in India.Boycott and diplomatic rupture urged.
TOTAL BOYCOTT OF INDIA NECESSARY.
Tell Bush and Rice; Break relations Now!
STOP OUTSOURCING TO TYRANTS!
NO MORE TRADE OR RELATIONS WITH INDIA UNTIL RESOLUTION OF CENTURIES OLD HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE!
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Updated: 11/27/07 11:03 AM CITIZENS JUSTICE INSTITUTE TO HELP CREDIT CARD DEBTORS FIGHT BACK AGAINST BANKSTERS!
Roger Ward Babson, the noted investment counselor and founder of Babson College, wrote a book entitled The Folly of Installment Buying a few years ago. His words never had more meaning than today, although installment sales are not a new phenomena. Records exist of installment transactions which took place in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in ancient times, as well as in ancient Rome, in France at the time of the Revolution and in eighteenth century London furniture stores. In World War I the U.S. government promoted the sale of Liberty Bonds on the installment plan.
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By David Grossack Updated: 07/11/07 10:01 AM WHERE DO THE DEMOCRATS' IDEAS COME FROM?
Today more than ever there is a distinct conflict between the political philosophies and economic strategies advocated by the two major political parties.
Without equivocation, the Democratic Party has always stood for a "progressive income tax" whereby the more you earn, the greater percentage you pay.
And the Democrats have historically made a continuous and sustained effort at trying to ensure that the inheritances of those who leave behind even a relatively modest estate will face taxes.
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By David Grossack Updated: 06/26/07 11:50 AM THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG IN NORTH CAROLINA
Decent people everywhere took genuine satisfaction at the irony of the televised bar proceedings involving disgraced Democratic prosecutor Michael Nifong recently. Here was the prosecutor being prosecuted. Here was the inversion of justice, the purported defender of truth, justice and the American way being exposed as a purveyor of lies, injustice and subversion of constitutional rights, and better yet, he is being made to pay for it.
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By David Grossack Updated: 04/11/07 9:26 AM WHY THE POOR MUST VOTE REPUBLICAN
The Democratic Party has long postured as a party that is the friend of the underclass, the underpaid, the unemployed and those supposedly disadvantaged by race or ethnicity. Their solutions to the problems of their less fortunate constituents has generally been based on extracting monies from the productive sector of society and transferring it to the less productive sectors of society.
What they have done is to ?institutionalize' poverty and dependency rather than make welfare and other programs of this nature very temporary measures to prevent dependency from becoming a multi-generational lifestyle that it seems to be in so many neighborhoods.
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By David Grossack Updated: 04/11/07 9:20 AM Celebrity Feeding and the Death of the Politics of Thinking
I think I know who is going to pick the next president.
It won't be me or you or the great majority of voters. It won't be traditional political machines or hidden power brokers or the conglomerates that supposedly program the voting machines.
It will be Big Media. Voters will respond to their prompting as conditioned rodents in a Skinner box ringing a buzzer for pellets. The media has their voters down to a science.
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by Susan Fassanella Updated: 08/30/06 11:50 AM I Am Angry
The Honorable Ron Paul?s piece on why Americans are angry really stirred me to respond. Mr. Paul?s piece speaks about many issues facing Americans today.
I am a 51-year-old woman. I have been married to the same man since 1976. I am the secretary/office manager for a small legal firm in the D.C. suburbs. My husband manages a wine and spirits store. I have two sons, aged 26 and 22. After realizing it wasn?t possible to support themselves and the government at the same time, both returned to the nuclear nest. Along with most people in my economic situation, I believe I am living what is supposed to be the Americ
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By David Grossack Updated: 06/15/06 1:25 PM COMPANIES THAT CAN HURT!
Public Menace Number One: VONAGE
Perhaps the all time worst company to do business with has to be the pretend telephone company that calls itself Vonage. Vonage is incompetent, understaffed, technologically inadequate and unable or unwilling to respond to the very basic customer need of functioning telephone service, in a law office, where clients, courts, adversaries and others need to be able to be reached.
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By David Grossack Updated: 04/01/06 9:56 AM BUSH ADMINISTRATION POLICY ON BELARUS IS JUST PLAIN HYPOCRITICAL
Many Americans may be unfamiliar with Belarus. It has not been in the news much until this weekend, but it is an important country and one from where millions of Americans, including this writer, trace their ancestry. Belarus is one of the former Soviet republics and has become a sovereign nation since the break up, with its capital in Minsk. My great grandmother came from Bobruisk, a suburb of Minsk.
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