Wishing Our Readers a Happier New Year!
Dear Readers:
This year is on its very last legs and, between us, I'm happy to see it go. It gave us a second presidential...
She Just Won’t Leave. Go Home and Nap, Hill
Barely two months after Hillary Clinton lost the presidency to Donald Trump, of the Apprentice fame (the reality TV show where he screams at...
Post-RNC Convention Notes – Behind the scenes in Cleveland with TPV
The tents have been folded up, the dancing horses (and elephants) loaded back on the trains, and the circus won't be back in town...
In Tandem
“Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.”
? Mort Sahl
"The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting...
Gitlin Spells It Out: Trump’s Media Intimidation Strategy Will Fail
First published here: http://billmoyers.com/story/trumps-failing-win-win/
Why Trump’s Media Intimidation Strategy Is Bound to Fail. Trump is pursuing what he thinks is a win-win strategy. But there’s more than...
Theater as Life and as … Theater
People like theater that is safe, generally speaking - things that are easy, that are not too deeply troubling. In other words, people want...
The Best Is Still to Come
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Money, Aside From Hillary, Is The Root Of All Problems Section correspondent was uncomfortably happy because he had just been nominated...
Happy Hanukkah from the White House and TPV
THE WHITE HOUSE
A Real Festival of Lights: Hanukkah at the White House 2014/5775On Wednesday, December 17, the President and Mrs. Obama welcomed...
The Promise of Public Education in 1822 and 2012
"The liberal appropriations made by the Legislature of Kentucky for a general system of Education cannot be too much applauded. A popular Government, without...
The Non-Misquote
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.
―...
Looking or Fishing for Love?
"If you are looking for love, you need heavy artillery: Ak 57, M46..."
-Migrant Homeless, while resting in the 2nd Avenue Subway Station, NYC, on...
Coercively … without a thought
Romney has yet to step up as the cases have mounted of Jews posthumously and coercively baptized by Mormons
-- Maureen Dowd,...
Donald’s Gut Makes Decisions
Mr. Trump will announce his vice-presidential selection soon, the New York Times informs its readers. Mr Trump's decision will be surprising but not really.
...
Entrepreneurs in History
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
--Karl Marx
Entrepreneurs...
