Or Else What?

By Iris Vander Pluym - 12.16.12

Relentlessly they had offered trenchant, scathing criticism of the blood-soaked, oil-drenched policies of the Bush administration.  They had done it for years.  It was understandable that they would become enthralled with the soaring liberal rhetoric of a young African-American Senator from Illinois, improbably running for president.  After then-Senator Obama voted for the FISA Amendments Act — despite having promised he would not do so under any circumstances — it became clear that Barack Obama...

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A Hungry Black Dog Perspective on Cutting Social Security and Other Human Benefits

By Mickey Walker - 12.16.12

Sometimes something of little world importance moves me.  Like today when I refueled my truck at the Valero gas station in Porter, Texas.  There, a black hungry mongrel dog appeared at the pump looking for something to eat.  It was a she with drooping teats, and a forlornly-wrinkled brow.  And totally helpless, jerking her head in a desperate search for a helping hand, for food.  It was clear the dog had nobody and nothing.  Hanging on to life was her specialty.

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Let’s All Go Over the Dreaded Precipice Of Quantitative Doom and Then Let’s Put an End to Charitable Deductions

By Donald B. Ardell - 12.16.12

I think all Americans should weigh in on the number one obsession of the media at this time, namely, the dreaded precipice of quantitative doom, better known as the fiscal friggin cliff. If I hear this phrase again in the next three seconds, I think I’m going to scream.

Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhoooooooouuuuuhhhh! Oops – I inadvertently inflicted that on myself.

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THE LEVESON REPORT AND THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

By Michael Faulkner on 12.09.2012

Lord Justice Leveson has finally (Friday 30. November) issued his report into the print media in Britain. There is no doubt that it will make interesting reading, though ploughing through all of its nearly 2000 pages and a million words  may take quite a while. Following his 30 minute televised presentation of the report, after which he took no questions and announced...

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Prophets and Psychics – Preachers and Politicians

By Loren Adams on 12.09.12

December 21, 2012 – A day that will supposedly live in infamy. The Mayan Calendar was correct, at least seers claim, in foretelling other world-shattering events over hundreds of years, including the arrival of white men (Cortez’s army) on the Mayan peninsula (Yucatan) in 1519. But the big enchilada is just twelve days away – when the earth..

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