By Jim Hoover The mainstream media is here for you…not for profit, mind you. How do I know? Because they look after your priorities. If you want an Eagle Scout’s budget, and favor jet-black hair over a receding hairline, the Ryan budget plan is for you, not the “People’s…
By: Geoffrey Yonil Recently I've been seeing a lot of 'I Am an American' essays, or some variation of the sort, defining what it is to be an American. I didn't happen to agree with most of the essays, so here is my response to all of the ones…
By: Hillary Ghongil I never thought I'd see the day that having a Facebook profile would be a crime. It's slightly hysterical. A new bill called "Facebook Felon" is working its way through South Carolina legislature these next few weeks, and soon the bill will work its way from…
By: Jim Hoover Another very important bit of news the mainstream corporate media won’t feature: Vermont has voted for the first single-payer health care system, in other words, a system without private health care middlemen who, leech-like, suck record profits out of the misery of patients[i]. Now, who doesn’t…
by Jim Hoover Want to know how money buys public policy and the media? Ask the Koch brothers. While we struggle to make ends meet, tyrannical forces are secretly and relentlessly working to control decision-making at all levels of government that can be bought. In Republican states which no…
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…
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…
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…