By Jim Hoover Flaming faucets, poisoned water, chemical burns, and even earthquakes could be a legacy of Dick Cheney, our last Vice President of the United States. His secretive energy agreement with energy company big-wigs during Bush's first term still does widespread damage to Americans; but one corrosive practice…
By OcJim Feckless Republicans and mealy-mouthed Democrats are willing to forsake the livelihood, indeed the future of the planet, for a comparatively few shekels and short-term comfort. To justify their impersonation of viable human beings, many say that climate change, supported by 99% of the world’s scientists, is a…
By OcJim Recent polls show that nearly 50% of Americans believe that the earth is less than 10,000 years old. That conviction is either based on an ignorance of science, or a religious belief in some form of creationism, perhaps with a rejection of science. Accordingly the dismissal of…
By OcJim Grover Norquist is an American lobbyist, conservative activist and founder of Americans for Tax Reform. Most Republicans have signed his pledge not to raise taxes under any circumstances. Where does that leave us? When Republicans have a majority in the House and the means to hamstring any…
By OcJim We have had the familiar panel-type talk shows for decades, including Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and the McLaughlin Group. More recently Candy Crowley, Christiane Amanpour and Fox News entries have entered the showroom, though the latter could easily be labeled as just right-wing rancor and…
By OcJim President Barack Obama just signed the National Defense Authorization bill which will continue the funding of our troops stationed throughout the world, but what is attached to it raises my ire and disgust.. It is something totally unrelated and disconnected from the function of the defense bill,…
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…