To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Victims Of What?
BY KAREN WEBB
Victims of an economy his party created and continues to create. Victims of a system where we are all victims of the...
Buckle Up For The Robot Revolution
BY FROMA HARROP Robots don’t take bathroom breaks, and that’s one reason why, all else being equal, they may make better factory workers than the human version. But all else is getting less equal. New generations of super “smart” robots are doing more and more complex tasks, their needle arms going into tiny spaces the […]
Misinformed
BY SHARON MARTIN
“I told my friends,” a college freshman said to me, “that the Senate and Congress choose the president. It doesn’t matter who...
The Shame Of America’s Two-Party Duopoly
BY RALPH NADER
The Republican and Democratic Conventions are mercifully over but their corrosive impacts on our democracy persist.
First, did you know that taxpayers helped...
Medical Marijuana Hearing?
BY RICHARD L. FRICKER
State Sen. Constance Johnson revealed that Health and Human Services Committee Chairman Sen. Brian Crain has agreed to a one day...