Hello Reefer, Goodbye Welfare
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Hello Reefer, Goodbye Welfare

By: Gina Volpe Another day, another reason to stick my head in the oven. The latest black cloud on the horizon? Several states are considering laws that would require drug testing for welfare recipients, including those who receive unemployment benefits. I understand having to pass a drug test when…

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March 5, 2011
Project Remember
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Project Remember

By: Anthony Knolls The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has magnified man's nature to gossip and to reveal things that were meant to be kept secret and spread them all over its digital canvas. Case in point, Wikileaks. Yet still many people don't know that Leonardo…

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February 28, 2011
Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / Current Events / Editorials / Government / Politics / Society

For a Lone Lunatic, He Fits Right In

As I read the analysis’s of Laughner’s patchwork manifestos and cobbled-together, text based video blogs on the various news and opinion sites I frequent, I am struck both by how desperately the reasonable among us are trying to make sense of this rampage and how futile their efforts are. The only place the actions of Jared Laughner made sense was in his own deformed mind, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that they no longer make sense there either.

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February 20, 2011
Land of the Free and Home of the Brave
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Land of the Free and Home of the Brave

By: Denise Fabec  In the last few years, we certainly have been living up to our reputation as a free nation.  With the outsourcing of jobs, corporate cutbacks, and millions of square miles of empty commercial property on hand, it has most definitely become a buyer’s market for goods…

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February 3, 2011
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