Can Scams Get Any Bigger?

By: Jim Hoover We’ve had the Barney Madoff scam affecting hundreds and the Wall Street scam perpetrated by hundreds and affecting millions. Now it’s the Harold Camping scam affecting billions. Scams are all around us. We have conmen in politics who fool voters into voting them into office and…

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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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Oil Change

While out bar hopping with a girlfriend, we ran into her older brother. He's a guy that I have known many years. A rather a nice looking, tall fella with a thick build. He has a certain ruggedness to him that lets you know he's the outdoors type. He’s…

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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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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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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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