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…
By OcJim The talking head for plutocrats, Pretty Boy Paul Ryan, likes to borrow his ideas from others. He doesn’t believe in divisive class rhetoric, he says, except in his statement, “We’re coming close to a tipping point in America where we might have a net majority of takers…
By OcJim In full riot gear, a phalanx of several hundred police – Oakland, state, and neighboring communities -- violently dispelled peaceful Oakland participants of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the early dawn hours of Tuesday morning and again Tuesday night, using tear gas canisters, rubber bullets and…
By Jim Hoover Herman Cain is thought to be a "stalking horse" for the Koch Brothers, who have poured a great deal of money into their causes, mostly through politicians and political action groups formed to promote their interests. Cain doesn’t seem to have a viable organization in primary…
By Jim Hoover Not too much has changed in the graven-god-scene since the early Aztecs used razor-sharp obsidian knives to snatch beating hearts pulsing with blood out of their sacrificial victims. Heart-extraction was viewed as a way to liberate the istli (a fragment of the Sun’s heat) and reunite…
By Jim Hoover I have waited so long for an American drama where the people win in the end. Conservative gangs, marauders from high places, have victimized the citizens for so long. Reagan rode in out of the tinsel town sunset, a likeable cowboy but flawed by ideas pushed…
By Jim Hoover Have you ever considered the toll imposed by the so-called “job creators”? And don’t forget our role in this agenda-inspired phrase, “job creator”. This plaint is part of rote learning conservatives want to impose on the rest of us. The meaning is clear. Corporate executives are…