By: Thomas Reyour While many are perhaps overzealously reveling and celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden, I propose that rather than throwing up our hands, screaming, "Ding, Dong, bin Laden's dead!" that we rather take this moment in history in silent reflection. Thousands upon thousands dead, civil liberties…
By Jim Hoover The five men photo featured here have proved themselves enemies of the people by rejecting the people and embracing plutocrats (the rich). Over the last three decades, time and time again Democrats have capitulated in approving the appointments of right-wing ideologues to the US Supreme Court.…
By: Michael Tuosto A belief that 'there is no God' is exactly that, a belief. It needs to be treated as every other belief or way of thinking should be treated by the American government: with indifference. James Dao’s piece, entitled Atheists Seek Chaplain Role in the Military, found…
By Jim Hoover Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader responsible for thousands of deaths, is dead. An eight-month-long investigation of a suspected compound deep inside Pakistan led to a plan to erase bin Laden. After Obama ordered a small Special Forces team to attack the compound, a resulting fire…
'Taboo Jive' Review By: Brandon Abbott While searching for some community blogs, I came across Taboo Jive. This site is, as they state, is a virtual discussion board debating the controversial. And they do just that. I browsed the site a bit, and came across some very eye-opening topics…
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…
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…
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…
By: Michael Tuosto Linda Chavez expressed her opinion about President Barack Obama’s personal life in her article entitled O’s Tax Hypocrisy. Her message was essentially that Barack Obama shouldn’t be taken seriously when he talks about eliminating itemized deductions for the top two percent of earners because he himself…
By: George Hankerill Facebook is at it again, and this time it’s attacking fine art. For those of you not familiar with Gustave Courbet and his highly controversial Realist piece, The Origin of the World, he was the 19th-century Realist painter who made a splash across Paris by rejecting…