By: Johnny Bint Current legislation going through the United States Congress is sparking rapid debate throughout the country and beyond about the future of the internet. SOPA, (Stop Online Piracy Act) going through the House of Representatives, essentially marks a proposed censorship blow to the internet, allowing the government…
By Tom Hastings Conflict can be understood as the motor of change, that which keeps relationships and social structures honest, alive, and dynamically responsive to human needs, aspirations, and growth. (Lederach, 2003, p. 18). When John Paul Lederach writes about conflict, he makes it sound like conflict is our…
By OcJim Experiencing the insanity of several self-absorbed Republican candidates, I have put together some thoughts for and responses to politicians, especially the Republicans who have mottled the public [pubic] airwaves with their self-serving babble and Bible. For Rick Santorum, his stands on sex, birth control, abortion, and marriage:…
By: Fred Manton Eyewitness accounts say that Obama's Administration put on a White House 'Alice in Wonderland' hi-tea party in the middle of the Great Recession back in Halloween 2009. Best part was that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp helped put the party on. No one knew about it…
So I started out by reading and doing some light research on this article to discuss how the use of anti-depressants have grown off the charts in the U.S. with a 400% increase since 1988 according to a report by C.D.C’s national center for health statistics. We have become…
By: Adrianne Zhugarb Let's face it, it's not fun paying taxes. That's why there's an entire profession (accountants) hired to deal with the average layman's taxes. But we've been pumped since childhood with these misconceptions and misinformation about how necessary and unavoidable it is to pay taxes. And for…
By: Movetoamend.org On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions. We, the People of the…
By Jim Hoover Flaming faucets, poisoned water, chemical burns, and even earthquakes could be a legacy of Dick Cheney, our last Vice President of the United States. His secretive energy agreement with energy company big-wigs during Bush's first term still does widespread damage to Americans; but one corrosive practice…
By ROY EIDELSON, Ph.D. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,”…
Lately, my son and I have been going at it about Ron Paul and whether he is qualified enough to become President of the United States. He plans on voting for Ron Paul because he is pissed off at Obama for signing into law the National Defense Authorization Act…