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…
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,…
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…
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…
By: James Daniels April 18th, 2011 is the tax deadline in the United States this year. With all the economic trouble that this country has faced in recent times, millions of Americans have lost their jobs and many have been forced to cut back on their expenditures. You would…
By: James Daniels Have you ever seen the Simpson’s episode titled Homer’s Enemy? It is about a man named Frank Grimes who has worked hard for his entire life to get essentially the same job as Homer Simpson. Although their routes in life were very different, they ended up…
By: Jim Hoover Many progressives thought we were getting the antithesis of the incurious, swaggering, insensitive, mediocre, frat-boy Bush. Most of us were fooled. Indeed, Barack Obama is different in many respects, but the outcome of his performance is so Bush-like that I have to pinch myself into the…
Welcome to Ray’s “Boom-Boom” Room. So recently, I came across a facebook post that I was completely in agreement with: "Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took hundreds of billions in TARP money, spilled…
By Jim Hoover Consumed with an ideology that would leave plutocratic boots on the necks of the middle class, ruthless Republicans have let loose a conflagration that will incinerate all that we have and all that our children and grandchildren could hope to achieve. Republican visions of heaven are…
By: Jackson Newtyl Brandon Wade, the brainchild behind the dating site, Seekingarrangement.com, recently came out with another dating service called, Whatsyourprice.com, and it’s become virtually indistinguishable from prostitution. Worst than Craigslist’s penchant for attracting unsavory and licentious customers, Whatsyourprice.com has gone a step further for dating sites by being…