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…
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: Midnite Writer Recently, there has been quite a flurry in the media about who they are. In case you haven’t run across it on one of the major news sites and without mentioning any names to keep their identity private (snicker), you know who they are. You can find…
By Jim Hoover For most Americans, it is too early for the nonstop verbal inanities of the 2012 elections. For the power base it is almost too late to begin machinations, which for most part, center around money, puppeteer candidates, and programs to manipulate the people. My guess is…
By Jim Hoover If not for fools and narcissists in our public scene, what would the media have to fill hours of news programs? Celebrities, politicians, sports figures, and megalomaniacs dominate media attention, some annoying and some amusing, but when put in positions of power and authority, potentially dangerous.…
By Jim Hoover There is a surety in the American political scene, promoted by the deceit that is Republican, but conveyed, perhaps surreptitious, perhaps coded, but conveyed all the same, by a pliable, for-profit mainstream media. For example, a few months ago, CBS Face the Nation, allowed false statements…
By Jim Hoover In the last ranking in 2000, The World Health Organization (WHO) has named the French health care system the best in the world. Who ranked the U.S. 37th, close behind Costa Rica, Dominica, and Chile. Statistics supporting this ranking seem to persist today. If you remove…
By: Jim Hoover Matt Taibbi in Griftopia does an effective job of tracing the myriad of ways average Americans have been screwed by a wide network of what he calls grifters, or swindlers, in a confidence game that was blessed by government officials in all branches and at most…
By Jim Hoover Political campaigns -- long, cumbersome, intrinsically boring, and wordy – are covered by the media and bloggers, both having the job of making money first, and if their coverage informs the public, that’s an accident. Online especially, all media, including bloggers, thrust with titillating verbal cuts…
By Jim Hoover Republicans are trying to sabotage the economy for political gain. This is the only conclusion we can draw to explain Republican unwillingness to raise the debt ceiling unless Democrats cave to their demands of huge spending cuts. Even worse, Obama will be complicit in this sabotage…