By OcJim I just finished watching the 1970 Western, Chisum with John Wayne, probably one of the better westerns of years past. The characters are all icons of western legend, as was John Wayne himself. One thing about westerns is that in the end, the good always seem to…
By OcJim The Democrats are either hopeless cowards when it comes to defending majority interests, or they are compromised by lobbyist money, only trying to appear as though they support the people. Current observations seem to prove that it is both. Barack Obama campaigned in 2008 as a champion…
By OcJim Even Jim Crow laws in the South in the form of poll taxes and intimidation at the polls, which suppressed black voting for a hundred years after the Civil War, were not as universally imposed, or laser-focused against opposition voting as the anti-voting laws being passed in…
By OcJim For some time the right wing has controlled the media message. They have controlled the main-stream media and Fox News with two tools: first of all ownership is in the hands of monolithic corporations and corporate values dominate the content and therefore, the message; secondly, the right-wing…
By OcJim If you are even partially tuned in, you most likely know something about facts of mal-distribution of income: the rich are getting richer and the middle class and the poor, poorer. You probably also know the right vs. left debate: the rich deserve their wealth and the…
This is a re-post. On Thanksgiving 2011, we can be thankful we still have people of love and good will in our country. Without the noxious contrast of Rush we would appreciate them less. By: OcJim You don’t see Limbaugh’s face real time usually, only as a point of…
By OcJim Have you ever seen such an egregiously ill-equipped crew of Republican candidates running for president? By category, they vary from the unseemly uninformed to obdurate liars to boorish scam artists. Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, and Herman Cain flash in your mind regarding uninformed. Bachmann also comes to…
By OcJim How is it that we allow misanthropes like Republican Representative Paul Ryan, city mayors, and other such actors for plutocrats abuse our law-abiding citizens for speaking out against them and their master class of the one percent? Before the Occupy movement became an annoyance for one-percenters, they…
By OcJim There are many apt nicknames for Donald Rumsfeld. Of course, the media affectionately calls him Rummy, seeing a practiced smile like the photo on the bottom, an image of mirth at press conferences. Others find him malevolent, as characterized by the top two photos. They compare him…
By OcJim Our troops will come home from Iraq by the end of this year. Will they too join the ranks of the homeless, the unemployed, and the walking wounded – many without hope or help. One could well believe that Jim DeMint, Republican Senator from South Carolina, who…