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…
By: J. Kam I recently became aware of a horrific crime which occurred in January 2007 in Knoxville, Tennessee. I live in another state and was told about this by my husband who read an article online. The crime to which I refer to is the brutal torture and…
Recently, I was at my boyfriend's house taking a shower. Not the easiest thing for me to do. I feel more like a rhino in an elevator bumping into all the sides (It’s a small shower). He has an automatic shower scrubber. You know, the ones that hang there…
By: James Daniels Most people could not wait for the Bush years to be over. With a deficit that was increasing at a mind-boggling rate, unpopular wars, and a host of other major problems, the country was ready for a change. And who could have been better to replace…
By: J. Norice Although it can honestly be stated that without medicine or doctors the survival rate of many Americans would be slim to none, it has been over 20 years and there still is not a cure for cancer. Part of the reason is money. Although thousands of dollars…
By: Ms. Henry As a woman who lives in America, the land of the supposed free, it is always amazing to me that it is always men who will never be pregnant or have to worry about the messy entanglement of a unwanted pregnancy because they have the option…
By: James Daniels April 18th, 2011 is the tax deadline in the United States this year. With all the economic trouble that this country has faced in recent times, millions of Americans have lost their jobs and many have been forced to cut back on their expenditures. You would…
By: James Daniels Have you ever seen the Simpson’s episode titled Homer’s Enemy? It is about a man named Frank Grimes who has worked hard for his entire life to get essentially the same job as Homer Simpson. Although their routes in life were very different, they ended up…
By: Jim Hoover Many progressives thought we were getting the antithesis of the incurious, swaggering, insensitive, mediocre, frat-boy Bush. Most of us were fooled. Indeed, Barack Obama is different in many respects, but the outcome of his performance is so Bush-like that I have to pinch myself into the…