By Jim Hoover The members of our political equation leave a lot to be desired, from Congress to President Obama, on down to the voter. In the end, the people as intelligent and informed voters are a critical link to the preservation of democracy, especially in choosing their representatives…
There is a war currently being waged in a predominately Black and poverty stricken neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois named West Washington Park. The battle grounds are located between 56th and 65th street from Cottage Grove to Martin Luther King Drive. This war has not garnered much media attention except…
By Jim Hoover The repugnant, the brain-dead, the mediocre, and the ugly seem to be accepted parts of our Republican political scene. Just witness what is euphemistically called the Republican debates. Each debate seems to be speaking for developmentally disabled, gradually working toward repulsive, and scoring a crescendo in…
From: Daily Graphic/Ghana Shared by: Myjoyonline.com The Head Pastor of African Faith Tabernacle, Rev. Paul Nkansah, has been arrested for allegedly raping five sisters at Akyem Akiase in the Eastern Region. Rev. Nkansah, who was alleged to have confessed to having affair with the five sisters, said he committed…
By Jim Hoover It is hard to see Rick Perry as either rational or serious about anything but gaining power. By all appearances he is an anti-federalist who wants to lead what he deems is a tyrannical union. Maybe he wants to declare himself a tyrant for Texas. Does…
Micheal Moore, Author, Oscar-winning film maker and criticized by some on the right-wing to be the ‘most hated man in America’ (which I thought was the President's job) has written his Memoir: “Here comes Trouble!” This “Diary of a wimpy kid” from Michigan is being called, by critics, a…
By: Chaz Valenza @ OpEdnews.com Shared from Alternet.org Editor's note: Today is the fifth day demonstrators have staged an "occupation" of Wall St. and other parts of lower Manhattan in protest of America's staggering economic inequality and the influence of big finance on our politics. As of Tuesday night,…
Religion teaches and enables the toxic conditioning of conformity to our children and young adults by threatening their 'eternal lives' with burning in Hell. Following is a few words from the Facebook Fan page creators on the description of their page and their intention to educate seekers of the…
By Jim Hoover Paul Krugman’s “The Bleeding Cure” oped this week in the NY Times provided the comparison of the Middle Age practice of bleeding the patient to make them healthy, to the mistaken notion that our recession can be cured with reduced deficits. The problem with this analogy…
By: Kenny Smith @ Religionnerd.com In a recent piece for CNN’s religion blog, “Actually, that’s not in the Bible,” John Blake examines the ubiquity of “phantom scripture” in American Christian communities. By “phantom scripture” he means ideas, teachings, and passages that sound like they belong in the Bible–e.g., “This…