By Jim Hoover Why are these men smiling? Well, they have reason to smile. They conned voters into electing them governor. From left to right, it is Rick Snyder, governor of Michigan, Rick Scott, governor of Florida, and Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin. There are other Republican governors, candidates…
By: Ms. Henry First of all, before I write this essay, I would like to state that I love being a black woman. I love the beautiful brownness of my skin, my hair which is a crown that has anointed me Queen of my universe, my full lips, slanted…
By: James Daniels The involvement of the United States’ military in the Middle East is well known. In recent years, the mainstream media has covered the events in Afghanistan and Iraq on a daily basis. However, these are not the only places with US forces, not by a long…
By: Jim Hoover I am an amateur student of cosmology, and I see parallels between the universe and the everyday world in which we live. Let the associated graph be your guide. The material world, at least what we can see, is composed of four percent of the universe; yet…
By: Stilettos and a Stiletto Bullshit Alert: Georgia State Representative Bobby Franklin continues to promote a bill that not only makes abortion prenatal murder but includes miscarriages as well if it is determined that there was any human intervention whatsoever. Consider the potential implications of this bill. If a…
By: James Daniels Next time you spend a dollar, take a few seconds to read it. At the top, in the middle, you will notice that it says “Federal Reserve Note.” What does this mean? The following is a brief history and explanation of the Federal Reserve that you…
By: Michael Tuosto In their Wall Street Journal article entitled Charges Stir Church’s Abuse Scandal, Dinah Brin and Peter Loftus report that 21 priests accused of sexually abusing minors were placed on leave by the Philadelphia Catholic Archdiocese. The article also reminds readers that the issue of clergy taking…
By Jim Hoover Five faces tell the story – or stories, as it might be -- of Fox News Network. It tells a narrative of angst and spectacle that bends minds, heaves hearts, presses attitudes, and makes pupils wide. Bill O’Reilly, a Fox news icon, is depicted with a…
by Jim Hoover With the ruthless and relentless monolithic corporate assault on anything getting in the way of stellar profits, it is easy to imagine any number of dirty tricks to achieve this end. The cause of greed has many allies in government and business. For example, Governor Scott…
By: Geoffrey Yonil The syndicated German television program Panorama recently came out with the story of how a group of civilians, some of which were reporters, were shot down by an American Apache helicopter in Baghdad in 2007 for being suspected of carrying weapons—which couldn't be seen entirely because…