Monday, September 6, 2010
© Don Wright I guess not as long as it is so easy to buy elections in the US. © John Sherffius
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Dan Rather hits the nail on the head. I have worked in and with corporate-owned media, and have seen the same things. You don’t need to believe in any kind of conspiracy — either right or left wing — to understand how the slavish obsession with profits of our corporate controlled media is destroying the […]
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
© Mike Thompson Between wars in the middle east, pollution, and taxpayer subsidies to oil companies, I don’t think most people realize how much our addiction to petroleum actually costs us.
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Saturday, September 4, 2010
© Jimmy Margulies The same people who opposed every effort to fix the economy are now profiting from the bad economy.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
© Ed Stein I love reading Ed Stein’s comics on his website, because he usually includes extra information. Here’s what he included for this one: It’s not even a question that the national economic policies of the last few decades have favored the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. We’ve seen an astonishing […]
© John Sherffius I once marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and trust me, Glenn Beck is no MLK.
Estimates of the crowd size at Saturday’s Beckapalooza tell an interesting story: CBS News commissioned a crowd estimate from AirPhotosLive.com, which based their count on aerial pictures it took during the rally. They estimated 87,000, with a margin of error of 9,000. So they claim between 78,000 and 96,000 people attended. Sarah Palin claimed over […]
I have long wondered how, after centuries of great civilizations, such as Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the western world could have then retreated into the “dark ages”. Population declined, especially in urban centers, there was less trade, and a decided lack of literary and cultural output. Reading Timothy Egan’s opinion piece “Building a Nation of […]
A fire at the construction site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro (in a town near Nashville TN) has been ruled as arson. Gasoline was poured on several pieces of construction equipment and ignited. So let me get this straight. Someone who considers themselves to be a real American was upset about terrorism, so they […]
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© Ted Rall Yet another attack on Obama. Probably funded by the Koch brothers.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
I think some amount of applause is due to Ken Mehlman, the former chairman of the RNC who also served as Bush campaign manager in 2004. Mehlman announced in a magazine interview that he is gay. And, as someone snarkily put it, he wasn’t even arrested before he made the announcement. Even more, he plans […]
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A few days ago, I said I wasn’t going to talk about the Park51 Islamic cultural center (aka the “Ground Zero Mosque”), because it was being used as a distraction by the Republican party. But Glenn Greenwald makes the point that this has grown far beyond a simple distraction, and is showcasing growing American religious […]
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[reprinted from Yahoo tech|ticker] America Won the Cold War But Now Is Turning Into the USSR, Gerald Celente Says There’s a lot of talk these days about America being an empire in decline. Gerald Celente, director of the Trends Research Institute, goes a step further, arguing America is following a similar path as the former […]
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The recent poll results that nearly one in five Americans believe (incorrectly) that Obama is a Muslim is just more evidence that a small but significant percent of Americans will believe just about any cockamamie story. Of course, it doesn’t help when you have people like Rev. Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham) spouting nonsense […]
