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…
By Jim Hoover The five men photo featured here have proved themselves enemies of the people by rejecting the people and embracing plutocrats (the rich). Over the last three decades, time and time again Democrats have capitulated in approving the appointments of right-wing ideologues to the US Supreme Court.…
By Jim Hoover Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader responsible for thousands of deaths, is dead. An eight-month-long investigation of a suspected compound deep inside Pakistan led to a plan to erase bin Laden. After Obama ordered a small Special Forces team to attack the compound, a resulting fire…
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…
By Jim Hoover The Republicans have made an excellent case for replacing all House Republicans who voted for the Paul Ryan budget plan. It is a budget so obviously unfriendly to the majority of Americans that Paul Ryan was booed at a town meeting a few days ago. A…
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…
By: Jim Hoover Many progressives thought we were getting the antithesis of the incurious, swaggering, insensitive, mediocre, frat-boy Bush. Most of us were fooled. Indeed, Barack Obama is different in many respects, but the outcome of his performance is so Bush-like that I have to pinch myself into the…
By Jim Hoover There has always been a giggle-factor for those who claim they have seen Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). Someday, I believe, the laugh will be on the doubters. At least two of the UFO photos above came from a pre-digital-effects period when photos were more difficult to…
By Jim Hoover Consumed with an ideology that would leave plutocratic boots on the necks of the middle class, ruthless Republicans have let loose a conflagration that will incinerate all that we have and all that our children and grandchildren could hope to achieve. Republican visions of heaven are…
By Jim Hoover For those who are buying potassium iodide tablets, there is another reason to panic. The Cascadia megaquake is long overdue. Run for your lives!! Well, wait a minute. This is only if you live in the coastal region of northern California, Oregon, Washington, or Western Canada.…