Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

Greg Sargent in The Washington Post:  “Dems know — or should know — that if they take ownership of the entitlement cuts Republicans say they want, GOP strategists will not hesitate to attack them again over them in 2014 and … Continue reading →

Last night I spoke to Sam Lefkowitz, Linda Gravenites’s widower.  I told him how I’m writing a chapter on Linda in my new book.  He told me how many of Linda’s clothing sketches, along with samples of his woodworking, are … Continue reading →

Or is it just plain stupidity? We’ll see exactly what’s at work among the President and his grifter handlers as his poll numbers tank over his insistence on implementing the Republicans’ agenda to cut Social Security, Medicare, and whatever other programs-that-benefit-people’s-lives he/they … Continue reading →

“We are not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.” – Congressman Paul Ryan, March 12, 2013

The “pundits” told Elizabeth Warren what they tell every Democrat who actually wants to implement a Democratic platform that got them elected: sit on her hands and turn into another nice, passive, Democratic progressive-in-name only.   She demurred. Sahil Kapur at talkingpointsmemo.com … Continue reading →

On his obsessive, incredibly destructive deficit-reduction-detour from addressing the country’s actual problems?  “The deficit is falling more rapidly than it has for generations,” reality-based-economist Paul Krugman writes in the Times.

— around Obama that is now necessary to ward off disaster for the Democratic Party. Reid co-sponsors Bernie Sanders’ Strengthen Social Security Act, which requires the income of the wealthiest Americans be taxed just like everyone else’s.  That would, of course, completely ameliorate … Continue reading →

They’re at the Koch theater through March 24.  It’s their annual New York season.  I went Friday night and they were in great  form.  I was fascinated to see Taylor’s 1961 piece Junction, danced to Bach.  It was brought back last year, … Continue reading →

Richard Eskow at the Campaign for America’s Future lays out exactly what is going on–something that, as Eskow points out, the liberal commentariat apparently doesn’t get or something about which it has decided to play dumb.

For my new book, I’m expanding my Sallie and Joe article that was in Ballet Review in 2011.  As I wrote then, my grandmother Sallie had definite linguistic skills, learning to speak a number of languages and becoming a Ham radio … Continue reading →