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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

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Why do Villains Always Win?

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…

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April 26, 2011

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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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Shadow of Bush

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…

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April 15, 2011

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Aliens in Our Skies?

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…

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April 14, 2011

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Torching Hope and Opportunity

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…

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April 13, 2011

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Who Should Panic?

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.…

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March 31, 2011

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Tricky Ricks and Scary Scott

By Jim Hoover Why are these men smiling? Well, they have reason to smile. They conned voters into electing them governor. From left to right, it is Rick Snyder, governor of Michigan, Rick Scott, governor of Florida, and Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin. There are other Republican governors, candidates…

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March 31, 2011

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Dark Energy

  By:  Jim Hoover I am an amateur student of cosmology, and I see parallels between the universe and the everyday world in which we live. Let the associated graph be your guide. The material world, at least what we can see, is composed of four percent of the universe; yet…

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March 28, 2011

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Fox and Friends

By Jim Hoover Five faces tell the story – or stories, as it might be -- of Fox News Network. It tells a narrative of angst and spectacle that bends minds, heaves hearts, presses attitudes, and makes pupils wide. Bill O’Reilly, a Fox news icon, is depicted with a…

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March 22, 2011