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Op-ed Attempting to Revive IRS Scandal Falls Completely Flat
An op-ed by Bart Hinkle appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch this weekend with the ominous title, “IRS scandal implicates Democrats“, suggesting more... Read more
Posted on 15 June 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Israel Playing The Victim
According to a NYT report today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is blaming the new joint Palestinian Authority for the disappearance/kidnapping of... Read more
Posted on 15 June 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Iraq and How It’s Going So Bad
With the troubling news coming out of Iraq these past few days I can only think what a waste the War was. We lost over 4500 service men and women and hundreds o... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Corporations Becoming Transnational
Large corporations are becoming transnational in that they have no home-base headquarters in one nation in an effort to avoid paying taxes. Read more
Posted on 11 June 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
“Breaking The Silence” of Occupation
In The Guardian yesterday there was a piece on striking testimonies from Israeli soldiers recounting their own violence against the people of occupied Palestine. Read more
Posted on 08 June 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Minimum Wage Is Just Unfair
I’ve been reading about the minimum-wage increase to $15.00-an-hour in Seattle lately and the most important point made on the issue that I have read is in an... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Critical Bergdahl Comrades Republican Agents
I am still in a dizzy regarding my reaction to the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban captivity and all the accusations and critical shots being taken a... Read more
Posted on 04 June 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Krugman On Giles, Piketty, and Inequality
A June 1st op-ed by Paul Krugman that argues that inequality is rising in the Western World, and especially in the U.S., while debunking Chris Giles’ (the... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Countering the Right: Ridiculous Ted Cruz Op-ed on Campaign Finance and Free...
Ted Cruz is one of those psychotically far right-wingers that just spews so much absurdity from his lips that it’s hard to keep up sometimes. Read more
Posted on 02 June 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
EPA Announcement and Kentucky
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new regulations that would cut U.S. carbon emissions from power plants by 30% of 2005 levels by 2030. Read more
Posted on 02 June 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Pay Your Taxes, Corporations!
I know that the title to this post sounds rather simplistic and goofy, if you will, but that’s what we need to say through our legislative bodies multinational... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Pakistan and The Violence Against Women
I have been particularly troubled with the recent death of Farzana Parveen, a woman bludgeoned to death in Pakistan by her own family for marrying a man... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Fewer Americans Identifying as Conservative and 8 Polls on Economics Proving It’...
Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs poll was released this week with the results showing the gap between those identifying as conservative and those identifying... Read more
Posted on 30 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Kerry Calls Snowden A “Traitor”…Among Other Things
This morning when I was watching the Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd on MSNBC (a good program for mainstream politics), Todd interviewed Sec. of State John Kerry... Read more
Posted on 28 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Let’s Assume “Homosexual Impulses” Did Play a Role in UCSB Shooting…
In the aftermath of the recent mass shooting in Isla Vista, Dr. Robi Ludwig suggested the killer may have been set off by “trying to fight against his homosexua... Read more
Posted on 27 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Christians Are Rational When It Serves Their Worldview
A great piece at Salon.com by Sean McElwee constructs a great argument around the recent controversy stirred-up by religious fundamentalist against Neil deGrass... Read more
Posted on 27 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Obvious Reason Tea Party Candidates Are Losing: Too Similar to...
According to an article in the Washington Post this week, the Tea Party will be making its “last stand” in the June 3rd Mississippi Senate primary. Read more
Posted on 25 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Would Reparations Be Good for America?
There is a must read, extensive piece in The Atlantic‘s Features section entitled “The Case for Reparations” that everyone should read.It gives as close to a... Read more
Posted on 24 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
NSA Surveillance On “Frontline”
I just spent the last three hours watching two great episodes of the PBS program “Frontline” that deal with the history of the NSA surveillance program. Read more
Posted on 23 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Economic Globalization and Impunity
When the Ukrainian crisis evolved into what we now know is the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by the Russians, and beyond, something became apparent in... Read more
Posted on 21 May 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY