What is Democratic Socialism?

As I meandered around the Web this morning while watching the US-China PR mummery at the White House being shown on C-SPAN, I ran across Senator Bernie Sanders’ recent remarks on how Social Security benefits have nothing to do with the US deficit.Amen.Then I ran across a pdf that explains how Sen. Sanders labels himself: a Democratic Socialist.The whole warm-fuzzy political theater now on display

Washington DC iced in Today, Hu Jintao lands 1.18.11

It’s been years since I lived in the District of Columbia but if you do, you awoke today to major iced in conditions.Here in Georgia, we received a layer of crusty ice over several inches of snow last week, now it’s DC’s turn to slip’n’slide. Bridges are especially treacherous under these conditions yet I suppose President Hu Jintao, leader of the Communist Party in China, will be landing on US