Betrayed and/or Screwed?
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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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May 22, 2011
Trumped by the Donald
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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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May 13, 2011
Media Bias & bin Laden
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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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May 11, 2011
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Kudos for Barack..But

By Jim Hoover Barack, I know you have been busy. I followed your schedule last week. While House Republicans were trying to reinvent the truth about their House voting against Medicare, you were producing your long-form birth certificate to shame Trump, who has none; comforting disaster victims in the…

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May 8, 2011
How the War on Family Planning Began.
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How the War on Family Planning Began.

The sign at the Tea Party rally “No Pubic Option” could be how the Republicans took up the war on family planning. Just a misspelled sign during a demonstration against health care reform? Honestly it could be a rallying cry for sexual abstinence as well, something our public funds…

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April 26, 2011
Gas Tax for Wall Street
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Gas Tax for Wall Street

By Jim Hoover The oil and gas speculation of Wall Street commodity traders has raised gas prices by more than 64 cents a gallon, say Senator Cantwell of Washington state and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner, Bart Chilton. The pie chart indicates the amounts and proportions for the…

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April 26, 2011
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