Can Scams Get Any Bigger?

By: Jim Hoover We’ve had the Barney Madoff scam affecting hundreds and the Wall Street scam perpetrated by hundreds and affecting millions. Now it’s the Harold Camping scam affecting billions. Scams are all around us. We have conmen in politics who fool voters into voting them into office and…

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Betrayed and/or Screwed?

By: Jim Hoover Princeton University professor, Cornel West, is bitterly disappointed in Barack Obama. Like many of us, he bought the egalitarian rhetoric Obama used doing the campaign and fought for his election. Now like many of us, he feels betrayed. “The system is rigged against poor and working…

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Trumped by the Donald

By: Jim Hoover In his braggadocio, pouty-lips way, Donald Trump boasts of eliciting tax breaks and garnering other favorable treatment from the government (us) in a constant game of manipulating government agencies and government officials, according to a LA Times article on May 11th. The article notes that he…

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Media Bias & bin Laden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qd4QMODnCc&feature=player_embedded by Jim Hoover The above Youtube video connection documents George W. Bush’s total lack of interest in Osama bin Laden in 2006. Bush's statement five years ago is of particular interest in light of Barack Obama's success in ridding us of bin Laden. What I call “Fabrication Central”…

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Lessons to be Taken out of bin Laden’s Death

By: Thomas Reyour While many are perhaps overzealously reveling and celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden, I propose that rather than throwing up our hands, screaming, "Ding, Dong, bin Laden's dead!" that we rather take this moment in history in silent reflection. Thousands upon thousands dead, civil liberties…

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