The enormity of government is too big to grasp. So much of the media focus instead on what the political class choose to talk about — diversions.

As nearly 13 million Americans look for a job – federal funding to retrain Americans workers and prepare them for the jobs of the 21st century are drying up. Funding for job-training programs across the country is down 18% from 2006 – even though there are six million more unemployed…

I do not understand why the United Nations and others are very surprised by the actions of Bashar al-Assad.

Although college loans have become a necessity, debt held by students has reached an extreme height.

Since trickle-down austerity began in Greece – suicide rates have jumped up 40%. Not only is trickle-down austerity bad economically – it’s bad morally as well.

Activists blame us for causing global warming and changes in our climate. That notion has been discredited, but it’s still used as an excuse to stop building roads, to force people into smaller inner-city homes, and to limit your use of labor-saving tools and appliances.

While Republicans in Congress want to drop or throw away the federal minimum wage, new data shows that the minimum wage in America is woefully inadequate.

The real issue is whether or not judges follow the Constitution. Overturning an unconstitutional law is not judicial activism. But trying to create the law through court orders IS judicial activism. The difference is clear and simple.

And they’ll be dying even younger because the social safety net that used to catch them has been cut away after thirty years of Reaganomics, Clintonomics, and Ayn Rand’s trickle-down morality.

Some scream that companies should not create jobs overseas. But selling things overseas earns profits they can bring back to the U.S.