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Betrayed and/or Screwed?

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…

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May 22, 2011

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Give US Moore!

“Trust me, you will rue the day you sat home and did nothing while thieves posing as politicians stole your Great Lakes State from you.” Stated Michael Moore in his “Letter to my Fellow Michiganders” on www.MichaelMoore.com. Michael Moore is an Academy-Award winning filmmaker and best-selling author. He is…

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May 20, 2011

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Living in a Garbage Can

Ms. Henry For the past two years and two months, I have resided in a garbage can. The smells of old garbage, urine, and human funk permeate the air of my surroundings, and stray cats yowl in the middle of the night. The garbage can where I live actually…

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May 18, 2011

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Lies, Lies, and More Lies

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…

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May 18, 2011

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Trumped by the Donald

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…

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May 13, 2011

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The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

By: Daniel Welsh So what was so radical about the American Revolution? Well, Gordon Wood, professor of history emeritus at Brown University, proposes that the radicalism that sustained and bred society as we know it wasn't quite that radical. In fact, most of us today would probably scoff at…

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May 12, 2011

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Media Bias & bin Laden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qd4QMODnCc&feature=player_embedded by Jim Hoover The above Youtube video connection documents George W. Bush’s total lack of interest in Osama bin Laden in 2006. Bush's statement five years ago is of particular interest in light of Barack Obama's success in ridding us of bin Laden. What I call “Fabrication Central”…

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May 11, 2011

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Pretty Boy Paul

By: Jim Hoover Now that the great recession has drug down the great bulk of Americans, who is left to support the top 2% greed glut? The answer is Beijing. Republicans forced the continuation of the tax cuts for the rich on pliant Democrats, so now we can borrow…

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May 9, 2011

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Kudos for Barack..But

By Jim Hoover Barack, I know you have been busy. I followed your schedule last week. While House Republicans were trying to reinvent the truth about their House voting against Medicare, you were producing your long-form birth certificate to shame Trump, who has none; comforting disaster victims in the…

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May 8, 2011

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Enemies of the People!

By Jim Hoover The five men photo featured here have proved themselves enemies of the people by rejecting the people and embracing plutocrats (the rich). Over the last three decades, time and time again Democrats have capitulated in approving the appointments of right-wing ideologues to the US Supreme Court.…

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May 5, 2011