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Gas Tax for Wall Street

By Jim Hoover The oil and gas speculation of Wall Street commodity traders has raised gas prices by more than 64 cents a gallon, say Senator Cantwell of Washington state and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner, Bart Chilton. The pie chart indicates the amounts and proportions for the…

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April 26, 2011

Country / Editorials / Government / Politics / Society

Leadership is More Important Than Politics

By: Michael Tuosto Linda Chavez expressed her opinion about President Barack Obama’s personal life in her article entitled O’s Tax Hypocrisy. Her message was essentially that Barack Obama shouldn’t be taken seriously when he talks about eliminating itemized deductions for the top two percent of earners because he himself…

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April 23, 2011

Art / Censorship / Editorials / Media / News / Prejudice / Society

Virtual Puritans Face Off Against The Bush: Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World vs. Facebook

By: George Hankerill Facebook is at it again, and this time it’s attacking fine art. For those of you not familiar with Gustave Courbet and his highly controversial Realist piece, The Origin of the World, he was the 19th-century Realist painter who made a splash across Paris by rejecting…

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April 22, 2011

Editorials / Media / Miscellaneous / Old News

Hate Crime

By: J. Kam I recently became aware of a horrific crime which occurred in January 2007 in Knoxville, Tennessee. I live in another state and was told about this by my husband who read an article online. The crime to which I refer to is the brutal torture and…

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April 22, 2011

Book reviews / Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / Government / Philosophy / Prejudice / Psychology

The Wretched of the Earth

By: Geoffrey Yonil If you wanna know how nationalism and socialism can be fused into one political system, then read Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Published in 1961 as a rallying call for Algerian liberation from French (and Western) colonization, the book still has prevalence within contemporary…

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April 22, 2011

Book reviews

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

By: Kim Hundrell “The Messiah of the Battlefield.” With vivid imagery and a powerful message, Dalton Trumbo weaves the intriguing tale of a WWI veteran who has lost all his limbs and senses, left in an anonymous hospital bed—it’s never specified in what country—with no discernable or identifiable markers,…

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April 22, 2011

Editorials / Miscellaneous / Philosophy / Society

Tasty or Toxic

Recently, I was at my boyfriend's house taking a shower. Not the easiest thing for me to do. I feel more like a rhino in an elevator bumping into all the sides (It’s a small shower). He has an automatic shower scrubber. You know, the ones that hang there…

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April 21, 2011

Country / Editorials / Government / Miscellaneous / Politics

Hoping For a Change

By: James Daniels Most people could not wait for the Bush years to be over. With a deficit that was increasing at a mind-boggling rate, unpopular wars, and a host of other major problems, the country was ready for a change. And who could have been better to replace…

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April 21, 2011

Current Events / Editorials / Government / Society

Health Cares

By: J. Norice Although it can honestly be stated that without medicine or doctors the survival rate of many Americans would be slim to none, it has been over 20 years and there still is not a cure for cancer. Part of the reason is money. Although thousands of dollars…

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April 21, 2011

Censorship / Country / Current Events / Editorials / Government / Media / Philosophy / Politics / Prejudice / Psychology / Sexuality / Society

Sexism Run Amok, Amok, Amok

By: Ms. Henry As a woman who lives in America, the land of the supposed free, it is always amazing to me that it is always men who will never be pregnant or have to worry about the messy entanglement of a unwanted pregnancy because they have the option…

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April 21, 2011