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Recession, Depression, Repression or Reprieve?

Advice to the President: • If you desire to be a personal friend of Xi Jinping, MOVE TO CHINA! • If you desire to be a personal friend to Vladimir Putin, MOTE TO RUSSIA! …

We Still Need Immigrants

I was in junior high school when my dad got real sick.   They took him to UCLA medical center and did a lot of tests.   The doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong.  Then …

Remembrance of Israel’s Past

I received my 2/15/25 Progressive Populist and thought about reading the cover story (“A storm-battered Louisiana town voted for Trump. He has vowed to overturn the law that could fix its …

Raise Hell Everywhere

This is intolerable. This regime, MAGA, DOGE, or whatever comical acronym it goes by. is illegitimate. Trump and Vance have forfeited their standing through their routine criminality, and Musk never …

Don’t Blame Doncicć

Dave Zirin’s classic column titled “The Revolution Against Oligarchy Has To Start Somewhere—Why Not the Luka Doncic Trade?” [3/15/25 TPP] flawlessly detects the wall-to-wall …

Alan Simpson: Laugh and Cringe

Although based on a Milton Berle Show character from the 1960s, Muppet balcony dweller Statler would’ve easily passed as doppelganger to the late Senator Alan Simpson. Lanky, arched eyebrows, …

Racism and Hatred On the Loose

We are living in darkly historic times and it is no exaggeration to say that the evil forces of racism and hatred have been unleashed in a calculated, premeditated and predatory fashion. And these …

Protecting Our Money

As W.C.Fields one said, “It’s time to take the bull by the horns and face the situation.” Now that most of the dust has settled over the election, the pearl-clutching, bed-wetting …

The Trump Takeover

If Sinclair Lewis were alive today, its easy to believe that the title of his book, “It Can’t Happen Here,” would change to “It Has Happened Here”: If this isn’t a …

Waste of Tax Money at the White House

President Trump has signed many executive orders this past month to allegedly eliminate fraud, waste and abuse in the Federal government. He appears to have appointed Elon Musk to head this project. …

Aye on the Ball

Thank you for Wayne O’Leary’s excellent column “Billionaire’s Ball” [2/15/25 TPP] on Donald’s coterie of billionaires and their retrograde agenda for the …

Donald Trump is creating a task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias in government. The first order of business of this task force should be to defend and protect Right Reverend Mariann Budde, the …

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