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Ed Martin is an ordinary person who is recovering from being badly over-educated. Born in the middle of the Great Depression, he is not affiliated with nor a member of any political, social or religious organization. He is especially interested in the phenomenon of those who view the glaringly obvious with total incomprehension, in other words, out political, social and religious leaders.
Sunday, September 4, 2011 Will we allow the Republicans to make the poor and the unemployed into the Jews of 1930s Germany? (9 comments)
One of the first things the Nazis did at the start of their program for the total oppression of the Jews was to make it unlawful for them to vote. The Jews were declared treasonous, unpatriotic, unproductive and anti-German. The Republicans are saying the same things about the poor and the unemployed.
Friday, September 2, 2011 Please sir, permission to speak now, Mr. Boehner? (4 comments)
Obama hasn't learned what the definition is of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Monday, August 22, 2011 Study shows genetics determines Republicanism
The current issue of the journal Genetics Today has an article by scientists announcing the discovery that affiliation with Republicanism is genetically determined.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 Obama's debt deal is even worse than we thought (1 comments)
Nothing in this debt deal Obama made with the Republicans is what it looks like on the surface. A little analysis shows that both Obama and the Republicans completely misread each other.
Monday, August 1, 2011 No matter what happens on August 3, it's time to abandon this government (1 comments)
Our government has always told us that our money we are required to put into Social Security would always be there for us when we retire. Now, for the first time, this government is telling us that is not necessarily true. This government has abandoned us.
Friday, July 29, 2011 Woah! Wait a minute. Look at what's wrong with this (3 comments)
The Republicans have wanted to kill Social Security for just about forever. Well, it looks like they're going to get their way.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 An answer to Rob Kall's question (8 comments)
Rob Kall asked an incisive question. Why are about 100 million Americans allowing themselves to be screwed over by the powers that be? I asked God about that and got an equivocal answer.
Thursday, July 21, 2011 When the worst is the best; why Rick Perry is the best Republican candidate (10 comments)
The Republicans are having a hard time coming up with a candidate for President. The candidates who have announced have the shared flaw of not having hit all of the points required to fulfill Republican ideology. If they'll just dig a little deeper, all the way to the bottom of the barrel, they'll find what they're looking for - Rick Perry.
Saturday, July 16, 2011 Looks like Obama has come down with a case of creeping Republicanism (1 comments)
Obama was elected on his promise of change. We assumed that he meant change from bad to better. But, his infection with Reublicanism ideology about Social Security takes things from bad to worse.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Republican history does repeat, and rhymes, and echoes
Mark Twain said that history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. He died in 1910, without the experience of the Great Depression and the Great Recession repeat performances of the Republicans. They're repeating now the same things they said then.
Thursday, June 23, 2011 Scalia Brings Sharia Law and Blank Paper Law to Supreme Court (1 comments)
Sharia law, the main effect of which is the suppression of women, has been brought into practice by Antonin Scalia in a Supreme Court opinion, along with an innovative concept, Blank Paper Law.
Friday, April 29, 2011 You need to read this! Rob Kall's declaration of war (19 comments)
On Thursday, April 28, Rob Kall published an article here on OpEdNews, Time For the Left To Declare Bloody, Ugly War BACK. You need to go read that article and prepare your self for action.
Thursday, April 28, 2011 A Bookstore Epiphany
In an article here on OpEdNews, Robert S. Becker makes a very good point with the title: Needed: A Disruptive Donald On the Left. He's right, we need one, but there's a reason why we won't get one.
Monday, April 25, 2011 What it takes to be a Republican, the Loughner-Phelps/Republican connection (8 comments)
The things it takes to be a Republican are all negatives. Insufferable arrogance, invincible ignorance, proud hypocrisy, total irrationality, deceit as a virtue, mental vacuity, and the list goes on.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Supreme Court Republicans set for more hypocrisy in the Westboro decision (1 comments)
Watch for it. When a lawsuit against the Republican's law against union bargaining reaches the Supreme Court, the Republicans on the court will hypocritically ignore their Westboro free speech decision.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Capitalism brings an end to capitalism
In an article in the New York Times, Felix Salmon bemoans the end of capitalism without realizing that what he's blaming it on is capitalism.
Friday, January 14, 2011 There are 310,800,000 suspect terrorists in the USA (2 comments)
George Bush signed into law the TSA that makes every person, every citizen of the United States, a suspect terrorist.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 See, I Told You So Comes Back Around to Bite Rush Limbaugh (2 comments)
Appropriately, the title of Rush Limbaugh's book, See, I Told You So, is exactly the proper phrase to describe the exactly predicted response Limbaugh would make.
Sunday, January 9, 2011 Let the Spin Begin. Lamar Alexander Kicks it Off
How the Republican hate mongers will put the blame for the Arizona shootings on everyone but themselves and make it, as usual, the best thing that has ever happened for Republicans.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 BS and circuses, and the end of empires
The Republicans are offering bullshit and circuses instead of bread and circuses to distract the people from their failure to govern.
Thursday, November 4, 2010 Want to know why the Democrats lost? Here are two headlines that tell you why
We've been pointing out the obvious fact that the Republicans live in a delusional, fantasy world that they've made up to suit themselves. They're not the only ones. Obama is still living in his own delusional, fantasy world.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Mistaking the symptom for the disease (3 comments)
Cristine O'Donnell, Sharon Angle, Michele Bachmann are just three examples of the pustules on the posterior of our country. These pustulant eruptions are only the symptoms of a disease affecting most of the population.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 The worst is yet to come; foreclosure fraud is the banksters' least problem (11 comments)
There's an overlooked requirement of contract law that is the real problem for the banksters, and they don't appear to be aware of it. If the requirements of contract law were met it would make every original mortgage note that a bank sold to another bank invalid, unenforceable and uncollectable immediately upon sale.
Saturday, August 14, 2010 Getting a Congress that represents us (4 comments)
Consider the question: Can someone who makes $174,000 a year be representative of you? Even if they're not, can they be a representative for you? The answer is no, but there's a way to get representatives of and for us in Congress.
Thursday, August 12, 2010 There are no liberals (7 comments)
An article here on OEN by Rob Kall points out the White House elite's disdain for what they call the "professional left." We are mistaken to let the White House, the conservatives or the Republicans define us.
Sunday, August 1, 2010 Lessons not learned: Shirley, Andrew is not the one who fired you (2 comments)
Several people have proposed that there are lessons to be learned from the Breitbart Fraud Affair perpetrated on Shirley Sherrod. The most important lesson to be learned, falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, is not among them.
Monday, July 19, 2010 It's my Party and I'll lie if I want to (4 comments)
That's the Republican Party doing the talking, there. In a decision by a Republican judge appointed by Republican George Bush, the judge has sanctioned lying as perfectly acceptable behavior.
Friday, July 9, 2010 Do not go gentle into that Republican night (5 comments)
With apologies to Dylan Thomas, question for you. Are we going to let out country become Glenn Beck's abomination of a corporate theocracy, ruled by lying hypocrites, the Republicans?
Thursday, December 17, 2009 The Heart of Hypocrisy, Tarrant County, Texas (1 comments)
Tarrant County, Texas is number three on the list of the nation's counties that get the most federal money. From listening to the Republicans who run it, it's number one on the hypocrisy list.
Monday, December 14, 2009 John Boehner, the Man with the Plan
The December 11 Washington Post has an article by John Boehner titled, "A better plan for jobs." I defy anyone, Boehner included, to read through the article and find anything that even remotely resembles a plan. It's just another re-hash of failed Republican ideology.
Thursday, December 10, 2009 We gave Bush hell for it, now it's Obama's turn (2 comments)
In all fairness, when Obama does the same thing for which we called George Bush a war criminal, how can we not apply the same standard to Obama?
Friday, August 28, 2009 The Rise of the Barbarians (5 comments)
Someone was asked what would they tell Obama is the greatest threat to the United States. The answer was the Afghanistan war and terrorism. Neither one is even close. Obama is standing right in the middle of the greatest threat to the United States, looking at it every day. That threat is the cult of Republicanism.
Thursday, May 14, 2009 An Article as Proctoscope for Dick Cheney and Richard Cohen (13 comments)
The only thing we can do with an article by Richard Cohen about how Dick Cheney might be right about torture, is to take it apart, re-assemble it as a proctoscope, lubricate it and stick it up both their asses.
Friday, May 8, 2009 US government document says Bybee and Yoo must go to jail (1 comments)
Doing a little research, I came across a US government document that says specifically that because the content of their torture memos endeavors to persuade other persons to engage in such conduct, they must go to jail. It says that absolutely, unequivocally and without doubt.
Thursday, April 30, 2009 The Specter of Opportunism and Expediency
Specter: a haunting or disturbing image or prospect. Arlen Specter's Republicanism couldn't be more in evidence. He's using the standard Republican tactics of expediency and opportunism by saying he wants to now, after all these years, be a Democrat.
Sunday, April 19, 2009 Hayden and Mukasey Admit to Conspiracy to Torture (9 comments)
Michael Hayden and Michael Mukasey, the former, we are thankful for that, Director of the CIA and Attorney General, come right out and admit that they go along with and approve of torture that violates United States law.
Saturday, April 18, 2009 Some straight talk to Mike Allen and the Republicans (3 comments)
An article at Think Progress about Politico's Mike Allen pissing and moaning about the DHS report warning about the danger of rightwing extremists deserves some straight talk.
Thursday, April 16, 2009 Atticus Finch lost to George Bush but defeated the Republicans (5 comments)
There's a prescient analogy in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, to recent and current events. All the characters are there, representing the forces of good and evil that we see in operation today.
Monday, April 13, 2009 Broder's call for bipartisanship is the best evidence for partinship
In David Broder's April 12 column, "The need for bipartisanship," Broder ignores or has forgotten the evidence he presented in his own column of eight weeks ago showing that when dealing with Republicans, partisanship is needed and is what works.
Saturday, April 11, 2009 Paranoid Republicans are projecting their own evil ways onto liberals (31 comments)
Just think for a minute about where all those false accusations about what the evil liberals are going to do to the Republicans comes from. It comes from within the Republicans.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Geithner and Others are Dumping a Load of Bullcrap on Us (4 comments)
Dissecting the terminology that financial wizards such as Geithner and others are using to sell us on their efforts to rescue their buddies in the financial industry shows that they're still, even now, after the lessons learned from the Bush administration, phrasing it in terms that are designed to obscure the truth.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 By Coming to this Website, You're Looking at the Future of Journalism (2 comments)
An article from The Nation gives a thorough explanation of the failure of the country's newspapers. Their solution for the saving of journalism is government support. But, the future of journalism has already been set, as can be seen here on OpEdNews.
Sunday, March 8, 2009 Will an anthrax commission do any better than the Warren and the 9/11 commission? (12 comments)
The Warren Commission to investigate President Kennedy's assassination and the 9/11 Commission to investigate the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 raised more questions than they answered. There are striking similarities between those events and the anthrax attacks that account for this.
Thursday, February 19, 2009 Republican Lawyers Offer Proof that George Bush is a War Criminal (7 comments)
In a February 17 article in the Washington Post, David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey flat out make the case that George Bush is a war criminal without even realizing it. They thought they were only referring to President Obama, but what they say applies equally to George Bush.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Here's why newspapers are going out of business (1 comments)
An article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram shows why newspapers are going out of business and can't compete with the internet.
Friday, February 6, 2009 Selective Preemption and Ducks (1 comments)
Bush felt safe waging preemptive war, since it doesn't affect him, but preemptive pardons are another matter.
Sunday, December 7, 2008 Impeachment Desuetude Will Foster Presidential Crimes (4 comments)
There's more than just the reason that George Bush is a despicable criminal to prosecute him for his crimes. It's the "Use it or lose it" principle. It's the legal doctrine of desuetude, where the non-use of a law renders it invalid. It says that if we don't prosecute Bush in a timely manner, the laws against his crimes no longer apply, and he gets away with it. And future presidents will, too.
Saturday, November 22, 2008 More than a Liberal (3 comments)
Thanks to Margaret Bassett for posting an article by Michael Lind, Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of Progressive? That brings up other questions, are we actually either one, and can a single label of any kind accurately describe who we are?
Thursday, October 30, 2008 Did you know that Jonah Goldberg's and Obama's skin color are different? (1 comments)
Jonah Goldberg has an October, 29 article that starts right off with the first words of the blatantly racist title, "Skin color is all that's new about Obama." Well, Goldberg's skin color is just as new as Obama's. And, Obama had no more to do with his skin color than Goldberg did with his own skin color. So, why is Obama's skin color an issue for Goldberg? And, why does Goldberg write an article with so many mistakes?
Saturday, October 25, 2008 We've met the enemy and he is a Republican (1 comments)
The United States has been attacked and brought to ruination far more effectively than any foreign enemy could ever have hoped for. One of the leaders of the attack, Alan Greenspan, has acknowledged the success of his attack and at the same time has only said that he was wrong in how he went about it. His weapon against the United States was Republican, conservative, free market ideology.
Monday, October 6, 2008 When trickle down became bailout became flood up
I was born and grew up on a farm with an outhouse. I know what trickles down. I've seen it and smelled it. I've also seen a lot of horseshit, and I can smell and recognize it when I see it. We've been told that trickle down economics is good for us. Turns out that trickle down was just a way to hold us off until Bush and his Republican corporate cronies could turn trickle down into flood up.
Sunday, September 21, 2008 Hold off on the schadenfreude, we're the ones who are about to get screwed.
Rob Kall correctly points out that the story presented by the Bush administration for the justification for the bailout of the financial institutions is the same as the hoopla, spin and lies presented for the WMD story about Iraq. Not much to it, it's wrong and it comes from the same congenital liars as before, things that we knew then weren't true, and we know now aren't true.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 If we're smarter than the Republicans, why aren't we as good at lying as they are? (1 comments)
John McCain knows something that Obama doesn't. He knows that the majority of voters are of the Limbaugh proletariat and if he can lie his way into making them believe that he shares their shallowness, he'll get the majority of the vote. Stands to reason. He's presenting himself and Palin like parking lot puddles, small and shallow, just what Limbaugh voters can identify with.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 The Palin Catalyst (1 comments)
Take equal parts of superstition, fear and ignorance, throw in the catalyst of a nominee for Vice President who is already the single, perfect combination of those ingredients and the reaction produces the enthusiasm for the reversion to case-hardened, hermetically sealed mindlessness that is the driving force that is at the bottom of the hard-right, fundamentalist, religion obsessed fanaticism of the McCain/Palin supporters.
Saturday, September 6, 2008 The problem is not the qualifications of the candidate, it's the qualifications of the voter (2 comments)
George Bush didn't get to be president all by himself. He had a little help, from 62 million voters, grossly incompetent voters. It is self evident that the people who voted for the most unqualified, ill-equipped man to be president, George Bush, not only once, but twice in a row, and are going to the polls again, are by definition also as unqualified and ill-equipped as he is.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 God says that Palin thinks He's George Bush (2 comments)
God stops by for coffee, occasionally, on His way to work. This morning we got to talking about the claims of Sarah Palin and Ed Kalnins, the pastor of her long time church. God said He'd never heard of any of these people.
Monday, September 1, 2008 Republicans say Palin passes the Goodling Test (7 comments)
Here we go, again. Republican pundits are just tickled pink that Sarah Palin has the only qualification needed to be the next Vice President. She has passed the Goodling Test.
Thursday, August 28, 2008 We need to nail the Constitution to the desk in the Oval Office (3 comments)
When you get a new toy, an appliance, a computer, any complicated device, you usually get a set of instructions on how to operate it. The Constitution is the operating instructions for the United States. The President, being the executive officer of our nation, needs to have those instructions hand to know what he can do and especially what he can't do, since operating a complex device incorrectly leads to disaster.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Whether it's McCain or Obama, it's a win-win for Republicans
Considering the natural hypocrisy of the Republicans, it doesn't matter to them who wins the presidential election. With their ability to distort everything as being good for Republicans, an Obama win can be made into the best thing that ever happened to them, just as a McCain win will be.
Monday, August 25, 2008 You can't slime the slimy (2 comments)
Obama can't throw enough slime at the McCain campaign to make any stick. They're already so slimy that whatever Obama throws will be unnoticeable.
Friday, August 22, 2008 Really, McCain is NOT a drooling, bumbling idiot. Yet. (3 comments)
Note to the Obama campaign: How about applying a little logic to the futile attempts by the McCain campaign to excuse the fact that though McCain is not a drooling, bumbling, catatonic idiot, he's well on his way.
Monday, August 18, 2008 The magnificent obtuseness of the Washington pundits.
If you want a good dose of obtuseness, self deception, distortion, misstatements of fact and good old Republican spin about the Bush administration, you couldn't do better than to read the Washington Post.
Friday, August 15, 2008 The criminal case against Mukasey (2 comments)
By his own words Attorney General Michael Mukasey has condemned himself as a criminal.
Thursday, July 24, 2008 The false ideology that caused our financial failure (43 comments)
The title of an article by Lew Rockwell at LewRockwell.com, "The Greatness of the Market in a Crisis," contains the logical contradiction that disproves the title's claim and the premise of the article. The title ignores the glaringly obvious fact that if the market is so great, it wouldn't have created the crisis in the first place.
Thursday, July 24, 2008 Do prices really go up or down? (2 comments)
You hear all the time that prices are going to change, they're going to go up or down, or that they have already done so. I looked into it. Prices don't change. They don't go up or down. Here's the proof.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 The denial of what makes you fat.
An article from McClatchy-Tribune News Service about obesity and what causes it says the reasons for weight gain are as varied as life itself.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Conyers' year of tolerating contempt
A year ago, July 12, 2007, John Conyers issued subpoenas for Harriet Miers and Joshus Bolten to appear before his House Judiciary Committee as witnesses. They, contemptuously, have never appeared. Now, a year later, Conyers is tolerating the contempt of Karl Rove for the same failure to appear by considering his "options."
Monday, July 14, 2008 The New Yorker is as obtuse as the Republicans (4 comments)
The front page New Yorker cartoon revels that the people at the New Yorker are as obtuse as the Republicans. They didn't realize that the Republicans will take the cartoon as a serious, factual portrayal of Obama.
Friday, July 11, 2008 When Crime is Presented as "Victory"
Two newspapers portray George Bush's getting approval from Congress to continue his ongoing criminal enterprise as a "Victory." Even though Congress' approval of Bush's crimes does not prevent them from being crimes, the danger is that people who read these papers will think that when the crimes are presented as victory, they are not crimes.
Friday, July 11, 2008 James Baker and Warren Christopher seem to be unaware of the Constitution
Even the title of their article, Put War Powers Back Where They Belong, shows their unawareness of the Constitution. The war powers of Congress are still in the Constitution. They have not escaped, leaving Congress powerless. The president, as they imply, has not stolen the war powers and is not hiding them under his desk in the Oval Office.
Friday, July 11, 2008 Who will save us from the economists?
Simon Jenkins at the Huffington Post points out that economists like to think of their profession as a science when it actually falls into the field of psychology. An article by the economist Ismael Hossein-Zadeh at Counterpunch shows that economists also fail to understand the psychology of economics.
Saturday, July 5, 2008 Rush Limbaugh confesses he has no confidence in his beliefs (11 comments)
Rush Limbaugh says that he will not give up until every American agrees with him. He's known all along that his hard-right, conservative ideology is not founded on the truth, the facts, logic, reason or evidence. His fear is that of all ideologues, that just one dissent containing truth, reason and evidence will expose him and destroy his whole foundationless empire of unreason.
Friday, July 4, 2008 The interests of justice require that we postpone the 2008 election (1 comments)
The interests of justice require that we impeach, remove from office, indict, charge, try, convict and hang George Bush and Dick Cheney for their crimes while they are in office. They must be made to suffer the humiliation of being removed from office and hung, according to law. Six months ain't gonna do it.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Appeals court introduces the word feared by George Bush
The word we've all been waiting for and expecting to be applied to the Bush administration as the bare minimum to use as the basis for making decisions to kill a whole bunch of innocent people has been introduced by a court of justice, the word dreaded, feared and ignored by George Bush: EVIDENCE.
Friday, June 27, 2008 Looking, Hoping, Wishing for an Advantage
The Republican McCain campaign, using a deniable stalking horse, has let it be known that another terrorist attack before the election would be to McCain's advantage. Since we're always grateful to those who give us an advantage, who will McCain be grateful to should he realize his delusion that another terrorist attack is to his advantage?
Thursday, June 12, 2008 Selling only to the super rich
How General Motors can lower overhead and make the same amount of profit by building one car a year.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Reciprocating SOFAs, or the logic of Iraqi troops in the US (1 comments)
George Bush says that Iraq is a sovereign, free and democratic country, just like the United States. Yet, he will only deal with the newest and one of the smallest countries in the world, The country of The Green Zone, located, of all places, in the middle of Baghdad, Iraq.
Thursday, June 5, 2008 Are you tired of being called "liberal" by Republicans when they mean "sonofabitch"? (29 comments)
Rob Kall published a GOP diatribe here on June 4, where the Republicans say that liberals elected Obama. As Dick Cheney so eloquently put it, "So?" Rob presciently predicts that, "The GOP will be calling him liberal and vilifying his supporters." How come it is that Republicans equate the word "liberal" with the most vile obscenities, but liberals refrain from attaching that connotation to the word, "conservative"?
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Drafting as a way to avoid getting psychopaths like Bush (4 comments)
The June 2 article by Dr. Kevin Barrett and Silvia Cattori, Is George Bush A Psychopath? explains a lot more than just the answer to that question. It explains how we have allowed psychopaths to take over our government. The prevention of that will require some very drastic changes.
Monday, June 2, 2008 Is Scotty's book another false flag operation?
The White House had a month to look over Scotty's book about Bush's transgressions and let it go forward. They saw no threat there, and, saw an opportunity. Scotty's book has created a quite different effect than presumed. An effect so obvious no one has noticed it. It's an effect expressed by Oscar Wilde: "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
Friday, May 30, 2008 How do you like having your intelligence insulted by Scott McClellan? (15 comments)
I'm so goddam mad I could bite a nail in two. Scott McClellan's belated epiphany about the manipulation and distortion of the truth and the outright lies about the reasons for Bush's Iraq war is an insult to the intelligence of those who read and write for OEN. Scotty, in his ignorance of the fact that we knew all the while everything that he has just now figured out, presumes to preach to us about what we alrady knew.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 When the talk of assassination becomes acceptable, can the act of assassination be far behind? (2 comments)
Hillary Clinton's remarks about the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in June as a reason to stay in the race until then is a passive reference to the possibility of an assassination eliminating her competition. Liz Trotta's remarks aabout Obama is an active statement that she, literally, would if she could, assassinate Obama. Clinton's remarks are in extremely bad taste. Trotta's are criminally actionable.
Friday, May 23, 2008 Democrat, don't let the sun set on you in Fort Worth (5 comments)
An article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram exposes the unbelievable smugness, bigotry, racism and arrogance of the Republican stranglehold on Tarrant County, Texas.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Obama's perceived inexperience is his best qualification. (4 comments)
Obama isn't any more inexperienced at being president than anyone who has ever been president. Since no one who has been president had ever been president before, Obama's experience at being president is exactly the same as theirs. He's never been president, either.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 Was the God of the ancients a computer? (5 comments)
If you look at the way the people of a few thousand years ago interacted with their God, the similarity to interacting with a computer is inescabable.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 A call for reform where prosecution, not reform, is needed (1 comments)
A group of candidates for office have proposed A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq. The plan proposes, unnecessarily, Restoring our Constitution instead of prosecuting the criminals who have violated it.
Monday, May 12, 2008 May this house be safe from tigers
I have an engraved sign on my mantle I had made that says, "May this house be safe from tigers." Its message is the operating principle of the political and religious leaders of the world. Three examples of that principle in operation are George Bush and the preachers Hagee and Wright. It works as well for me as it does for them. I've never been bothered by tigers and they've never been bothered by ethics, morals or doubt.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 If you're reading this, George Bush has reserved a bunk for you in one of his detention camps. (8 comments)
George Bush is building detention camps. Their purpose is "to support the rapid development of new programs," without specifying just what those "new programs" might be. But, read on to see if programs Bush already has in place are the ones he's planning on using to put you in one of those camps.
Friday, May 2, 2008 The way to hit back even harder (9 comments)
Rob Kall, in his article, Time to Hit Back Harder, makes the point that we must do everything possible to refute the right-wing, Republican propaganda, by making the counter argument of the truth. There's a way to hit them even harder, by pointing out the truth about the right-wing Republicans, themselves, instead of the falsehood of their propaganda.
