REGULATIONS SEEN AS A GOING AWAY GIFT TO SUPPORTERS
President-elect Obama’s ability to hit the ground running on January 20th has been hampered, somewhat, by the Bush administration’s recent enactment of a rash of last minute regulations aimed at rewarding party loyalists in both the social conservative and big business communities.
Among these regulations is a […]

IF THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS BECOME IN SUFFOLK COUNTY, THEN, PERHAPS IT HASN’T SHIFTED AWAY FROM ITS REPUBLICAN ROOTS, AFTER ALL
I have not had the time to write as often as I would like, but I am trying to have something to say here at the Lib at least once a week. […]

SENATOR McCAIN WAS A FIGHTER PILOT WHO MANAGED TO GET SHOT DOWN 4 TIMES BEFORE BEING TAKEN PRISONER
Now, I admit that I wasn’t much of a hero during my Army service.
I spent my two years at Fort Gordon outside of Augusta, Georgia as the Jewish Chaplain’s Assistant, It was during the Vietnam […]

THE ECONOMY HAS TANKED, AND OBAMA’S LEADING IN THE POLLS. WOO HOO!
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE PRESIDENCY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HERBERT HOOVER, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BECAME THE POLITICAL HOME OF BIG BUSINESS
On October 30, 1929, the day after the great stock market crash, President Herbert Hoover, a conservative Republican declared that “The fundamental business of […]

HOCKEY MOM VP CANDIDATE CUT FROM SAME IDEOLOGICAL CLOTH AS GEORGE BUSH
The dynamic of the 2008 presidential campaign was forever altered last week when John McCain’s selected Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. Besides bringing color to the normally listless and bland McCain, Palin is a candidate that much of the […]

SENATOR McCAIN CAN’T THINK WE’RE THAT STUPID, CAN HE?
While long on wind (given Senator McCain’s age, probably from both ends), but short on facts, Senator John McCain gave a rousing speech accepting the Republican nomination for President of the United States. The problem is that he said absolutely nothing that meant anything.
The sum and […]

HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE ARE? APPARENTLY, PRETTY STUPID
I have waited a few days to put my thoughts to keyboard on the nomination of Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, to be Vice President of the United States. I needed to see exactly where she stood on some of the issues and […]

THAT CAUSES ME TO ASK THE QUESTION, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE

President George W. Bush is considered to be one of the less intellectual men to occupy the seat of power known as the White House. His educational pedigree would have you think otherwise. He did his undergraduate degree at […]

TWO BILLS, WHICH WOULD TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS TO HOLD THE DRUG COMPANIES AND DRUG EQUIPTMENT MANUFACTURES TO TASK FOR SHODDY MATERIALS AND WORKMANSHIP
Throughout most of our country’s history, we as consumers have had the right to bring the individual or corporation responsible for manufacturing a faulty product to task for their carelessness or incompetence. […]

THE RACE CARD HAS BEEN OVERPLAYED IN THE DEMOCRATIC RACE
Racism, now, there’s an ugly word.
It’s a word that makes us think of lynchings in the South and gas chambers in Nazi Germany. It makes us think of everything that is wrong with society, and it is rearing its ugly head in a most peculiar […]