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A Decent Proposal

By: Eddie Vince Many are worried about the economy, not only in the States but everywhere. Some suggests fiscal conservatism and minimalist government intervention within the free market, while others suggest the government needs to step into unethical and destructive business practices preying on the people. Well, I think…

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February 18, 2012

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Children Will Listen

"You've got to be taught/To hate and fear, /You've got to be taught /From year to year, /It's got to be drummed /In your dear little ear /You've got to be carefully taught." ~Oscar Hammerstein (“You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught,” from South Pacific) A teenager named Sarah Crank…

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February 16, 2012

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Severely

You have noticed that Republicans dominate the news scene day after day, and have for at least the last two decades. It is no accident. It is a unified and scripted approach to gaining dominance, pushing minority beliefs through techniques of fear and angst through a friendly, corporate media.…

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February 14, 2012

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A Night of Magic in Libreville

(On a pragmatic note, readers should interchange my use of the word 'football' for 'soccer'.) The 2012 African Cup of Nations concluded this evening, with the final squaring off Ivory Coast against Zambia. Did you watch it? This was a magnificently dramatic game between one of the best teams…

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February 13, 2012

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A Very Grey Country; Britain

I live in Britain, known informally by the rest of the world as 'England', whose official name is the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' a state that has only been in existence for less than 80 years. Despite being legally unified with Wales in the 1530s,…

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February 12, 2012

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Obama, Achiever; Republicans, Deceivers

By Jim Hoover Acrimony and lies are so much a part of Republican rhetoric that we need a full-time monitor just to catch and register the breadth and the scope of Republican fabrication, for it is rampant. We also need a historian to research the wild references made by…

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January 31, 2012

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A Letter From a South Side Apartment

A couple of years ago, I read Dr. Martin Luther King’s A Letter from a Birmingham Jail and I was mesmerized by the passion and anger in his words and although we are in the second decade of the 21st century, his words still resonate. This letter I am…

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January 31, 2012

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Tortured & Murdered with no Justification; Jason Dale Bolton

By: Hank Dulap Jason Dale Bolton was only 16 years old when four assailants brutally tortured and murdered him in front of a group of witnesses that, because of the 'bystander effect' and diffusion of responsibility, neither helped nor testified against the men responsible. To this day, Bolton's assailants…

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January 29, 2012

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Callista Gingrich’s Fake Story: Internet Facts

By: Frank Thompson First off, I'd like to apologize for putting up a story that turned out to be completely false and framing it as if it were true. Unfortunately, like everyone, I am bound to be mislead at times. But then I began surfing the web to see…

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January 26, 2012

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Our Future: Curse or Care?

By OcJim Who are the people responsible for the starvation of education in America and the heartless treatment of the vulnerable? We all have a role in this disgrace, but the biggest role can be laid at the feet of the rich -- most notably, Wall Street marauders, conservative…

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January 25, 2012