American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Courage Under Fire

Today in America we are faced with a major issue of equal rights regarding Gay people serving in the military.  It may be beneficial to look at how Harry Truman handled a very similar situation in 1948; the integration of the military.
In early 1948, Truman “… proposed a ten-point program, which included provisions for an [...]

Creating New Jobs to Get out of the Recession: How will we do it?

Well, I just lost this one by mistake but lets try again.  We need a massive amount of job creation to get out of this Recession, which in some areas of the Economy is a Depression.
During the recent Bush administration there were 3 million jobs created with a population growth of 22 million.  That was [...]

Our Nomination for the idiot of the week: Rev. Pat Robertson

This is a partial transcript of comments made by Rev. Pat Robertson after learning of the tragic earthquakes in Haiti:
“[S]omething happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together [...]

What if everyone used their gifts to benefit others?

Today the N.Y. Times editorializes about taxing the high earners at Goldman Sachs. Is that really the problem with such intelligent people devoting themselves purely to the accumulation of lucre.
If all of the mathematical investment geniuses at Goldman Sachs and the other investment banks and hedge funds had devoted their talents to serving the [...]

Responding to the Terror Threat!

We must respond actively to those countries which support terrorism.  I suggest the following steps to reduce our economic reliance upon countries which threaten our very existence.
1.    Eliminate all commercial relations and/or trade of any kind with the following countries: Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria,  Afghanistan, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and [...]

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