By Jim Hoover The Republicans have made an excellent case for replacing all House Republicans who voted for the Paul Ryan budget plan. It is a budget so obviously unfriendly to the majority of Americans that Paul Ryan was booed at a town meeting a few days ago. A…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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: 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…
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 Michael Tuosto When a specific situation challenges my own beliefs about what the role of government is, it fascinates me to no end. That is exactly what a recent Supreme Court ruling has done and what Adam Liptak writes about it in his New York Times article, entitled…