We hear it all the time. The media, politicians, pundits, and even President Obama have endlessly referred to Social Security and Medicare as ‘entitlements’. Republicans talk about these programs as if people don’t actually pay for them, and distort the word ‘entitlement’ as if it means something horrible. The Right Wing, as always, is wrong.

Have the children of the 70s and 80s lost the will to fight? Did they ever have it to begin with?

It appears occupy(ing) Wall Street is the name of the movement, but it is clear the movement far exceeds the concrete boundaries of Wall Street.

I have a message for the Bill O’Reillys out there. Any time you’re feeling so repressed and burdened by your shackles that you just can’t bring yourselves to show up and collect your meager millions, just drop me a line. I’ll be more than happy to relieve you of your burden. In fact, we can trade places. You can have my slightly lower tax rate and I’ll just have to rough it with your slightly higher one. Deal?

A longtime political operative once adequately summed up Ron Paul’s brand of stalwart Libertarianism by using this adage ‘when you first hear about it, it seems like a big, delicious bowl of ice cream. Then, after awhile, you realize that mixed in with the ice cream, there is a sizable chunk of dogsh$t.’

Russell Simmons, Def Jam Productions media mogul, has joined a growing list of wealthy Americans who recognize the imbalance and inequities in U.S tax laws. Simmons joins Warren Buffet, Howard Schultz – CEO of Starbucks, Ron Howard-producer/director, Joseph Stiglitz – Nobel Prize winner, Matt Damon – actor, Chuck Woolery – game show host.

Occupy Wall Street isn’t going away, you fat cats, no matter how hard you try to ignore or intimidate them.

No exaggeration necessary: These same children who are tormenting their gay classmates in school are already on their way to being the successful young Republicans of America. No, not all Republicans will be homophobic, and not all bullies will be Republican, but by and large these two groups of people are in fact one in the same.

I have recently observed the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement and actions in New York City from a couple of perspectives. First, I wrote a piece about police brutality reaped upon members of the protesting crowd. Second, I noticed that neither of the big three cable networks broadcast segments about the organization nor did either give proper day-to-day on-air coverage. I heard nothing about the protest until the day before the first day of activities.

I believe that we all understand how mother nature works. What I cannot understand are the mental processes and logic of people who have recently started to rant about ‘no taxes’. Are these people serious? OK, come on tell me, ‘Who let the logic out?’

During last week’s Wall Street protest which received surprisingly soft coverage by all cable media, a group of protesters caught the wrath of what can only be described as ‘police brutality.’

Republicans in Michigan are pushing legislation that would have serious consequences for union workers such as teachers. The GOP led House of Representatives in the state have introduced a bill that would imprison union members for sending political emails using publicly owned email services.

The Left needs to snap out of their dreams of compromise and realize that they are not dealing with normal people. The Right has gone insane and the faster we understand that, the faster we can deal with this new reality.

Regardless of your politics, for those of us who support the existence of the Jewish State of Israel, watching events on the world stage in the past week has been tantamount to helplessly watching your own child get bullied on the school yard.

Many in the US do not know that the republicans put a really large weight around the neck of the Postal Service and is trying to drown it by requiring them to prefund their retirement and pension benefits for the next 75 years…and do so in a 10 year period. A phenomenal and impossible feat that means that the Postal Service will have to find 5 1/2 Billion dollars each year to fund this. Instead of helping to create jobs this could cause at least 120,000 jobs to be lost.

The idea of the American dream is one of the most successful pieces of propaganda ever perpetuated. If we believe in the dream, we can dismiss or outright ignore economic, social, and demographic realities that have more to do with economic impoverishment than any supposed behavioral deficiencies on the part of welfare recipients.

The disruptive member of the audience interrupted heckled with chants and yells about Jesus and after being drowned out by supporters, he called the President the “Antichrist.” Have you noticed more use of the phrase of late? If you have not you are not paying close attention to national news.

Unfortunate yet telling instances like the execution of Troy Davis, applause for death at a Republican presidential debate and the disrespectful and grossly hypocritical jeering of a gay U.S. soldier in the aftermath of DADT’s undoing each call to mind the fact that the modern day Right wing – Christian Republicans, mostly – has transformed its conservative agenda from fiscal to social, from political to religious, from freedom to fascism.

Two of my favorite sitcoms were on TV last Thursday night at 9. NBC had the eighth season premiere of The Office, and Fox News aired the third installment of a new show called The Republican Presidential Debates. Both were great for laughs and quite a few groans, but, unfortunately, the debate was the more fictionalized of the two shows.

As America and Congress continue to squabble over who is to blame for the current financial crisis, a closer and more balanced analysis of the situation reveals that there is plenty of blame to go around.