Category: Political Commentary
A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children’s hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets….
Happy Days are not coming any time soon to America — and not to most of the world. It is realistic — not pessimistic or fatalistic — to believe that we have reached the twilight of the oil-industrial age. A global reckoning is coming sooner than we would wish, and the US government and President Obama, sadly, are not stepping up to the leadership plate.
As I reflect upon the words President Obama spoke in his victory speech and think of the furor that has erupted over the “Ground Zero Mosque” proposal, as the Chairman of The Foundation Of Ethnic Understanding, I am appalled. Am I in a dream? I can’t even believe, that in this day and age, we are even discussing this…..
We just experienced eight years of Republican control with no tolerance for debate or criticism, much less bipartisanship and now they are acting less like an opposition party and more like an obstructionist party.
BRAVO JOHN STEWART….BRAVO! It is extremely refreshing to hear and see someone on T.V…..in the media, tell it like it is with no holds barred. John Stewart of The Daily Show called out Jim Cramer for pushing Bear Stearns stock right up until the company collapsed.
Eight million people are at risk of losing their homes because Wall Street abandoned responsible lending practices to gain short-term profits. The housing crisis is not just a problem for families facing foreclosure – it’s a problem for every homeowner in America. As long as foreclosures persist, home values will keep going down, and everyone loses. Here is one solution.
The Lang Report is tremendously grateful to and ecstatic about the permission it has been given by Dr. Robert P. Watson, Ph.D, to published his articles. The enclosed article was written prior to the current hoopla over the “stimulus bill” and the Republican Party’s defiant attitude and unwillingness to vote for it. Politics? You bet it is. Dr. Watson saw it coming in his article written in November 2008.
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N.Y. Mayor Michael Bloomberg Praises Islamic Center Decision
Speaking on Governor’s Island, misty-eyed New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised a decision to allow an Islamic center to be built near Ground Zero. Bloomberg choked up during his delivery, which highlighted the spirit of religious tolerance and freedoms once sought by New York’s earliest settlers.