By: Fredrick Munculok Often when the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks rolls around for the past half-decade we’ve very cursorily glanced over what happened that day, remembering fuzzy memories and accounts we can recall, and then filling the rest in with 24 hour news coverage of the planes going…
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: David Palsman Talking to a Communist friend of mine—though we usually disagree on most things political—he pointed out something that I hadn't thought about before: maybe we should elect a fundamentalist right-wing Republican as the next President. Not for the sake of saving our country, but to jumpstart…
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: Daniel McCombs I thought that by quitting drugs a few years ago I would be able to finally get behind the War on Drugs, and see all of its benefits. But four years clean has shown me the exact opposite. A fifty year war that takes billions of…
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…
What if you were set-up for a blind date and found out in the middle of your evening out that your date is on the “sex offenders registry?" Would you finish the date or ditch them as soon as possible? This just happened to me. Don’t get me wrong,…
Terrorism is an ideology that has been around since time immemorial and has been used to topple political leaders, steal land and resources, and enslave people for profit. It is also morally bankrupt for these specific reasons: women and children are the usual victims of terrorism, terrorism serves no…
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…