The Worden Report
Friday, December 17, 2010

The Affordable Care Act Running Up Against Federalism

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According to Newsweek, "Conservatives have been quick to declare that "ObamaCare is on life support" in the wake of federal ...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Military Sacred Cows: A Matter of Contrived Camulflage

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"The most significant threat to our national security is our debt." Micheal Mullen, Jount Chiefs of Staff Chairman, August, 2010...

Obama Caving to Plutocracy

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I contend that Obama caved on his campaign pledge (or promise) not to extend the bush tax cuts for the rich.  The added growth expected in ...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

The American Republican Party: For More Federalism or Less Government?

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The stance of Sen. Jim DeMint (SC-R) in 2010 is emblematic of the ambiguity in the hierarchy of goals in the Republican party. DeMint can b...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

The Corporate Apology

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In classical literature, an apology can mean a defense, such as Plato’s Apology . In modern parlance, an apology is known as an expression...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

An Industry Undoing European Federalism: The Case of Cookies

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In 2010, the EU Parliament passed a law to protect internet users from invasive “cookies,” which track computer usage at the expense of pri...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

President Obama Absent at the EU-US Summit of 2010

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I submit that most Americans are unaware that the EU has a Supreme Court, a Parliament and a Council/Senate.   Few Europeans are wont to ad...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Midterm Elections, 2010: Lessons Unlearned

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The Republican surge that gave that party control of the US House of Representatives reflected a shift of some moderate independents, even ...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Democracy and Capitalism: On Managing Equality and Inequality

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Both capitalism and democracy claim to maximize individuals’ freedom—capitalism in the economy and democracy in politics.   In spite of this...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Corporate Analogies: Money-Making as War-Games as a Sign of Boredom

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What to do when analogies go over the top. As an aspiring writer, I was chastised by more than one writing tutor for mixing analogies. The...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

On the Nineteenth-Century Eclipse of Democratic Governance by Capitalism

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I contend that a trajectory wherein capitalism came to eclipse or capture democratic governance occurred in the nineteenth century in the ...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

On the Politics of Hate Speech: Wilders in the Netherlands

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Geert Wilders, head of the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands, went on trial on October 4, 2010, in the Netherlands on charges of i...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Is States' Rights in the E.U. Racist?

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Thousands of Romania’s Roma people (also known as Gypsies) headed for the wealthier Western E.U. states, setting off a clash within the Eur...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Obama's Economic Stimulus: Insufficiently Focused

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The $800 billion stimulus law had as much (or more) to do with improving the education system and rail lines, installing universal broadba...

A Structural Conflict of Interest inside BP

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Mark Bly, BP’s head of safety and operations, released an internal report  on September 7, 2010  blaming not only the company, but also its...
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