By Jim Hoover Paul Krugman’s “The Bleeding Cure” oped this week in the NY Times provided the comparison of the Middle Age practice of bleeding the patient to make them healthy, to the mistaken notion that our recession can be cured with reduced deficits. The problem with this analogy…
Living in the inner-city will suck the joy out of life if you have the misfortune to live there. Who wouldn’t be depressed about being surrounded by ignorant male youth lounging aimlessly on the corners bragging about the women they used to have, foul-mouthed, uncouth young women fighting over…
By: Kathy Henry It might sound clichéd, but even in the new millennium, it is hard being a woman, particularly a woman of color. We are attacked for our mothering skills, our lifestyle choices, and whatever we accomplish is never good enough. Women throughout the centuries have been confined…
Gender inequality has maintained the suppression of women worldwide and unfortunately has impacted Sub-Saharan Africa with the greatest magnitude. Everyday in these countries are countless occurrences of physical, emotional, and psychological abuse that must be acknowledged as a primary concern for governments across the world. A prime example of…
By Jim Hoover Commercial banks normally provide important services as financial intermediaries, collecting funds for safe, liquid and secure investment opportunities. Since the great depression, gambling and speculative activities were always kept separate, that is until greed was successfully infused into the process beginning in the 1980s. Since then…
By Jim Hoover You have seen the scale of justice held by the Lady Justice, often depicted wearing a blindfold to denote justice being meted out objectively. The personification of the moral force in judicial systems dates back to Ancient Egypt’s Goddess Maat, but the image is actually patterned…
By: Jackson Hedges The production company Pink Triangle Theatre espouses a clear message directed towards curbing the current trend of "homophobia, bigotry, hatred and intolerance." Such thematic content directs it's focus and is intended to touch upon much of what human experience is like. And despite many homophobic rhetoric denying…
By: Fredrick Munculok Often when the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks rolls around for the past half-decade we’ve very cursorily glanced over what happened that day, remembering fuzzy memories and accounts we can recall, and then filling the rest in with 24 hour news coverage of the planes going…
Ever since President Obama was elected I have noticed a lot of insanity from a certain segment of the White population. President Obama has been accused of taking away civil liberties of “real Americans” and not actually being an American at all but a Kenyan socialist-communist-fascist who is going to…
By: David Palsman Talking to a Communist friend of mine—though we usually disagree on most things political—he pointed out something that I hadn't thought about before: maybe we should elect a fundamentalist right-wing Republican as the next President. Not for the sake of saving our country, but to jumpstart…