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• Comedy Writer and Saturday Night Live Alum Tom Davis Has Died

  

  From the L.A. Times: Davis died Thursday at his home in Hudson, N.Y., his wife, Mimi Raleigh, told the Associated Press. He had throat and neck cancer.... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT

• Just Came Home from the Morning Radio Show…

  

  John CaseJohn Case and I did Winners and Losers on WSHC this morning and, as usual, we had a pretty good show… especially with our regular callers Ralph Petrie... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Booknotes – Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt…

  Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and the brilliant graphic story teller, Joe Sacco is a brutal depiction of Reality! Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 SOCIETY

• The Business Growth of Private Enterprise Prisons… This at a Time When Violent...

  

  Here are the facts… you make your own conclusion. Personally, I think making prisons a private industry sucks— I wonder when they’ll be exporting the prisoners... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Incarceration Rates Soaring in the U.S.

  

  Here are the facts… you make your own conclusion. Personally, I think making prisons a private industry sucks— I wonder when they’ll be exporting the prisoners... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 SOCIETY

• West Virginia Interaction: JohnCase Responds to Senator Manchin…

  

  My good friend and radio personality John Case received an e-mail from Senator Joe Manchin (D – WV) which, to all appearances, supports many of the subjects... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 SOCIETY

• I Needed a Wednesday Night Laugh and Found This:

  

  Sometimes bloggers do poor research… especially conservative bloggers. Not that I am worried about the blog competition, but here’s a neat piece I found on The... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 SOCIETY

• The Latino Vote is Heavily Weighted in Obama’s Favor as of Now…

  

  In a poll by Latino Decisions released today, President Obama’s numbers are rising to 70% of registered Latino voters, compared Romney’s 22%. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Quote of the Day – Fox News Poll: Do Republicans Have a Jobs Plan?

  

  Even Fox News in a recent poll doesn’t think Romney can create jobs. The totals? 27 percent of Americans think Romney has a plan to revive the American... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Romney Insists Republicans Are NOT the Party of the Rich…

  

  From PERRspectives:At a $1.7 million fundraiser in Jackson, Mississippi, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney declared that the GOP is not “the party of... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Out Of All The Reasons African-Americans Don’t Trust Mitt Romney, Here’s The Ver...

  

  This is from MoveOn.org:Forget for a second that he just gave a speech for the NAACP and vowed to repeal Obamacare. And then insinuated to his rich, white... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Why You and I Have to Cover What the Rich Don’t Pay…

  … according to Economist Robert Reich:If you don’t think we should increase taxes on the top 1%, watch this video first.Related articles Robert Reich: The... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Quote of the Day – Romney Had Better Wise Up.

  

  This from The Fix in the Washington Post:“The truth — in politics and in life — is almost always less damaging than what the imagination can conjure. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Poll Shows Obama’s Proposal to Raise Taxes on the Rich is a Winning Political...

  

  The proposal Obama has made to raise taxes on households making at least $250,000 a year was the subject of a poll by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2012 SOCIETY

• 80% 0f Antibiotics Are Fed to Farm Animals – and It’s Killing Us!

  Here’s something we should all be aware of (especially when we go food shopping):I hope you signed the petition… and look for the label in the meat department... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Who Will Get the College Student Vote in 2012?

  

  Eric Oster, in Faster Times, illustrates the college vote potential for the 2012 election compared to 2008: The youth turnout for the 2008 election was a big... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2012 SOCIETY

• I Have Not Talked Much About Syria, but This Seems to Be a Positive Statement:

  

  Nawaf al-Fares is one of the highest-profile defectors from the Syrian regime. Formerly he was Bashar al-Assad‘s ambassador in Baghdad, Iraq. Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2012 SOCIETY

• Even More Republicans Are Calling on Romney to Release More Tax Returns…

  

  This morning’s pundit shows brought the increased demand for release of the tax returns… or questioned what he was hiding.“The cost of not releasing the... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Actress Celeste Holm, 95, Dies…

  

  Celeste Holm, the versatile actress who achieved fame on Broadway in the original production of Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s hit musical “Oklahoma! Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT

• T J Walker : 35 Questions Mitt Romney Must Answer.

  T. J. Walker has presented this on television (see video) and in print in Forbes magazine (read it here:T J Walker – 35 Questions for Romney). Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2012 SOCIETY