California’s Budget – We’re Sick and Tired of the Crumbs
Last Friday, Governor Schwarzenegger announced his revised budget proposal, which looks a lot like the last several budget proposals. There is a pattern here: California politicians announce that the state did not bring in enough revenue in taxes, and so, they say, the only solution is to slash funding to every social service that we […]
The Gulf Oil Spill – The Work of Three Criminal Corporations
On April 20th, the Deepwater horizon, a British Petroleum (BP) oil rig off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and began spilling enormous quantities of oil into the waters of the gulf. The oil well is 5,000 feet deep and fifty miles off shore. In the explosion eleven workers were killed. Five million […]