By: Jim Hoover According to Jim Mulva (above), the CEO of ConocoPhillips, 74% of Americans are un-American. No kidding. A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal Survey found that 74% of Americans favor eliminating tax credits for the oil and gas industries as a way to reduce the federal budget…
By: Jim Hoover We’ve had the Barney Madoff scam affecting hundreds and the Wall Street scam perpetrated by hundreds and affecting millions. Now it’s the Harold Camping scam affecting billions. Scams are all around us. We have conmen in politics who fool voters into voting them into office and…
By: Jim Hoover Princeton University professor, Cornel West, is bitterly disappointed in Barack Obama. Like many of us, he bought the egalitarian rhetoric Obama used doing the campaign and fought for his election. Now like many of us, he feels betrayed. “The system is rigged against poor and working…
“Trust me, you will rue the day you sat home and did nothing while thieves posing as politicians stole your Great Lakes State from you.” Stated Michael Moore in his “Letter to my Fellow Michiganders” on www.MichaelMoore.com. Michael Moore is an Academy-Award winning filmmaker and best-selling author. He is…
Ms. Henry For the past two years and two months, I have resided in a garbage can. The smells of old garbage, urine, and human funk permeate the air of my surroundings, and stray cats yowl in the middle of the night. The garbage can where I live actually…
Ms. Henry I am a writer who does not write as much as I should. I have some talent, but I do not have the passion that is truly necessary to be a writer because most of my passion is being used to find full-time employment. It’s hard being…
While out bar hopping with a girlfriend, we ran into her older brother. He's a guy that I have known many years. A rather a nice looking, tall fella with a thick build. He has a certain ruggedness to him that lets you know he's the outdoors type. He’s…
By: Jim Hoover In his braggadocio, pouty-lips way, Donald Trump boasts of eliciting tax breaks and garnering other favorable treatment from the government (us) in a constant game of manipulating government agencies and government officials, according to a LA Times article on May 11th. The article notes that he…
By: Natasha Scott It’s funny how people who have cheated always try to say they're addicted to sex instead of stating the real reason why they cheated. Sex is a part of life, to some people its a BIG deal and to others it doesn’t really matter. People cheat…
By: Daniel Welsh So what was so radical about the American Revolution? Well, Gordon Wood, professor of history emeritus at Brown University, proposes that the radicalism that sustained and bred society as we know it wasn't quite that radical. In fact, most of us today would probably scoff at…