Arnold: Totally Recalled

By OcJim I always record Sixty Minutes on Sunday evening. It not only gives me the opportunity to skip the commercials but also to fast forward through segments that either don’t interest me or race past shallowness I can’t abide. Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger got high-speed fast-forwards. I consider Arnold…

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Protests across the Islamic World — Instigated by Romney Backers?

By OcJim Everybody loves a conspiracy theory and some even defend them with their dying breath, but put together enough evidence, exercise enough logic, and put on your perception glasses and one nefarious plot line make sense. Take the anti-Islamic slide show that prompted protests at multiple U.S. Embassies…

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Ryan’s Ode to Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand was a novelist, an atheist, and a philosopher, especially beloved by libertarians and conservative, free-market advocates. Her belief in “rational self-interest” saw virtue in greed and evil in altruism. Her philosophy helped justify the conservative agenda of reverse Robin Hood, giving to the rich and taking from…

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Rejecting Toxins in November, 2012

What do you do when your opponents have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend, much of it on 30-second-long bogus attack ads that flood battleground states in the last two months of the 2012 presidential election? Sites of the propaganda battle: http://graphics.latimes.com/2012-election-electoral-map/ When a few billionaires, like Sheldon…

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School Strike, Children, Parents & the Mayor

If you were a child born in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was a product of the Chicago Public Schools educational system, you had deal with teachers going on strike. In 1980, 1984, 1985 and 1987, children and their parents were highly inconvenienced by ongoing labor disputes…

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The Gay Marriage Issue

Marriage is more than a piece of paper. It confers numerous benefits, such as health, disability and life insurance, pension funds and tax refunds for spouses. Many gay couples desire to marry and partake in these benefits but have been denied this right because of their sexuality and that…

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