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Jim Freeman's op-ed pieces and commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, International Herald-Tribune, CNN, The New York Review, The Jon Stewart Daily Show and a number of magazines.

www.opinion-columns.com, http://politicalcrank.blogspot.com/

OpEdNews Member for 242 week(s) and 4 day(s)

109 Articles, 53 Quick Links, 393 Comments, 228 Diaries, 0 Polls

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 6:46:40 AM

Article : "ARRIVAL TIME, 2010; A VIABLE THIRD-PARTY OPTION"

Corporate radar


Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 6:31:45 AM

Article : "ARRIVAL TIME, 2010; A VIABLE THIRD-PARTY OPTION"

Jim Eldon


Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 7:27:28 PM

Article : "ARRIVAL TIME, 2010; A VIABLE THIRD-PARTY OPTION"

There is a viable option in Philadelphia right now


Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 7:19:58 PM

Article : "ARRIVAL TIME, 2010; A VIABLE THIRD-PARTY OPTION"

consider the history of the Populist movement


Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 6:03:36 PM

Article : "ARRIVAL TIME, 2010; A VIABLE THIRD-PARTY OPTION"

3rd party way to go


Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 5:59:01 PM

Article : "ARRIVAL TIME, 2010; A VIABLE THIRD-PARTY OPTION"

Independents Do Not Need a "Third Party," but a Better Way


Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 5:48:15 PM

Article : "ARRIVAL TIME, 2010; A VIABLE THIRD-PARTY OPTION"

I would submit


Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 1:53:43 AM

Quicklink : "IF YOU ONLY READ ONE OP-ED THIS YEAR, READ "THE IDIOTS WHO R"

Try TruthDig


Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 2:47:44 PM

Quicklink : "IF YOU ONLY READ ONE OP-ED THIS YEAR, READ "THE IDIOTS WHO R"

I just checked it


Monday, October 13, 2008 at 4:04:07 PM

Diary : "Boise Breaks Early Snow Record, Where's the Global warming?"

Y'all having a good time here


Monday, October 13, 2008 at 3:58:14 PM

Diary : "MagLev technology"

So much better than taking your shoes off


Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 11:23:10 AM

Quicklink : "Paul Krugman; "Edge of the Abyss""

How many ways are there


Friday, October 3, 2008 at 9:21:59 AM

Diary : "THE PELOSI HOUSE--ROTTEN TO ITS VERY FOUNDATION"

Mark


Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 3:27:49 AM

Quicklink : "WHO NEEDS CONGRESS? DAVID IGNATIUS"

It seems the American public


Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 3:29:41 AM

Quicklink : "THE TRICKLE-UP BAILOUT--BUY THE HOUSES, NOT THE DERIVATIVES"

No more trickle-down, our trickle has trickled out


Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 4:25:23 AM

Article : "How Wall Street Can Bail Itself Out Without Destroying the D"

A little late on this, Thom


Friday, September 26, 2008 at 7:17:45 AM

Diary : "THOSE WHO EAT AND THOSE WHO SERVE"

In the place of helping mortagees


Friday, September 26, 2008 at 6:49:09 AM

Diary : "LENDERS HOARD THEIR CASH--ASK FOR YOURS"

This make any sense to you guys?


Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 8:11:03 AM

Quicklink : "An Open Letter to All Republicans From a Former Religious Ri"

Not often you find someone "present at the creation"


Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 3:03:39 PM

Diary : "To all the ships at sea and all the Opednews people:"

We might take a leaf from Karl Rove's book


Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 9:49:35 AM

Article : "Election Theft for 2008 Already Underway"

Dependably, Mark


Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 9:42:08 AM

Quicklink : "GARRISON KEILLOR--WE ARE NOT FRUIT FLIES, WE ARE VOTERS"

I defy you to find a writer today


Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 2:47:00 PM

Diary : "THE FED AND WALL STREET, 4TH AND GOAL FOR QUARTERBACK PAULSO"

Aye, Richard


Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 4:10:33 AM

Diary : "THE FED AND WALL STREET, 4TH AND GOAL FOR QUARTERBACK PAULSO"

When the going gets tough


Friday, September 12, 2008 at 5:17:26 PM

Quicklink : "WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? [9.9.08] By Jonathan Haid"

Don't hold back


Friday, September 12, 2008 at 8:15:18 AM

Quicklink : "WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? [9.9.08] By Jonathan Haid"

If you think a treatise on 'moral psychology'


Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 11:39:08 AM

Diary : "To Even Mention Book Banning is Sarah Palin at Her Dangerous"

Anybody reading Naomi Wolf's "The End of America?"


Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 9:07:28 AM

Quicklink : "Fannie-Freddie Rescue Imperils Some Banks"

Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't


Monday, September 8, 2008 at 4:09:52 PM

Article : "Maced, Beaten, Tortured, Enough is Enough"

Hard to know without more information


Friday, September 5, 2008 at 9:40:02 AM

Quicklink : "A CON-GAME IN PIN STRIPES"

Steven Pearlstein is perhaps today's finest writer


Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 8:35:59 AM

Article : "What Does a Tough Progressive Media Site Look Like?"

There is so much muck to rake


Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 6:58:09 AM

Article : "Has America Started to Fall Apart?"

Well Ivan, we didn't exactly stand by


Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 5:01:15 AM

Diary : "Popping the Question. Why Isn't Levi Johnson In Jail For Sta"

With all due respect to Sandy Sand


Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 4:48:22 AM

Diary : "Gore Vidal On McCain and The Election ( from Times On-Line,"

Gore Vidal


Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 3:56:59 AM

Quicklink : "IN THE WORDS OF MY SPEECHWRITER . . ."

If you've wondered what's really behind the thinking


Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 10:06:29 AM

Article : "Video of Amy Goodman Arrest In MN"

So, if I understand Mark and Munich (an appropriate name)


Monday, September 1, 2008 at 11:21:58 AM

Article : "Republicans Pare Down Convention Agenda To McCain POW Experi"

Egg on your face


Monday, September 1, 2008 at 11:05:14 AM

Article : "Owner of Russian Opposition Website Killed Mysteriously"

Mysterious, what's mysterious about a KBG murder?


Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 2:56:27 AM

Diary : ""FIRST WE TAKE"--THE LESSONS FROM 1933 GERMANY"

And yet there are still Nelson Mandelas and Vaclav Havels


Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 4:24:38 AM

Diary : "Anyone, OEN Regulars or Otherwise Willing To Analyze Some Co"

This whole move toward popularity


Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 11:15:19 AM

Article : "Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography, by Ignacio Ra"

I have just begun to read this book


Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 11:56:42 AM

Article : "New Zogby/Reuters Poll: Obama Down 5, in Deep Doo Doo"

Caroline Kennedy


Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 11:46:03 AM

Diary : "Pravda Hammers Condoleeza Rice"

Alan Williams, what is your point?


Monday, August 18, 2008 at 5:44:13 AM

Diary : "SERVICE JOBS? EXCUSE ME?"

Beautifully written


Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 4:08:59 AM

Diary : "Nienaber finally comes out..."

Sandy and Georgianne are right on


Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 3:35:10 AM

Article : "International Jewish Statement in Opposition to an Attack on"

Somehow I missed this on the editorial page


Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 3:47:14 PM

Article : "Breaking: Conyers Calls Committee Back from Summer Recess to"

I wouldn't want to hang


Friday, August 15, 2008 at 6:07:03 AM

Diary : "Born in Blood, Founded by Terrorists, Israel Confronts Iran"

Yeah well, now we've heard from the other nut-wing


Friday, August 15, 2008 at 5:07:50 AM

Diary : "Born in Blood, Founded by Terrorists, Israel Confronts Iran"

Well, your opener was a little harsh


Monday, August 11, 2008 at 12:57:18 PM

Article : "Pelosi Admits She Has NOT Read Articles of Impeachment!?!"

Mark, you appear to be stretching a bit


Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 3:45:00 AM

Diary : "To the Editors at OpEdNews:"

That's a pretty long hypothetical string, Doc


Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 9:03:59 AM

Diary : "To the Editors at OpEdNews:"

I don't know why our comments are coming up in multiples


Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 3:05:37 AM

Diary : "To the Editors at OpEdNews:"

Why is it men are so unwilling


Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 3:05:30 AM

Diary : "To the Editors at OpEdNews:"

Why is it men are so unwilling


Monday, August 4, 2008 at 10:55:20 AM

Diary : "To the Editors at OpEdNews:"

Well, I appreciate that and hope I am sensible.


Monday, August 4, 2008 at 12:44:25 AM

Diary : "To the Editors at OpEdNews:"

I guess you and John missed the point


Friday, August 1, 2008 at 2:53:25 AM

Article : "Project on Government Oversight (POGO) Hits Balls Out of the"

Actually, I know some generals


Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 4:35:53 PM

Diary : "PARDON ME WHILE I RETCH--THE NATION'S INTERVIEW WITH PELOSI"

Don't hold back now, Peter


Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 2:53:48 PM

Diary : "PARDON ME WHILE I RETCH--THE NATION'S INTERVIEW WITH PELOSI"

C'mon, Roger


Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 2:50:31 PM

Diary : "In My Dreams, Google Takes Down Microsoft"

Hmmm. . . all that angst


Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 12:29:21 PM

Diary : "PARDON ME WHILE I RETCH--THE NATION'S INTERVIEW WITH PELOSI"

Would that it were only a case of sloppy stupidity


Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 12:19:12 PM

Article : "A Chat with Filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman on the eve of the rele"

www.StealingAmericaTheMovie.org/


Monday, July 28, 2008 at 3:02:17 AM

Diary : "ONE OLD JEW AND A COUPLE SELF-INTERESTED GENERALS RE-CREATE"

What on earth does


Sunday, July 27, 2008 at 1:19:06 PM

Diary : "ONE OLD JEW AND A COUPLE SELF-INTERESTED GENERALS RE-CREATE"

Actually


Sunday, July 27, 2008 at 4:17:38 AM

Diary : "ONE OLD JEW AND A COUPLE SELF-INTERESTED GENERALS RE-CREATE"

Yeah Phil, it was


Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 11:01:59 AM

Article : "Naomi Klein Helping Me UnLearn What I Learned in Business Sc"

Amy, if you want to venture further


Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 12:20:28 PM

Article : "The Great Depression of 2008"

I am always amused


Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 8:45:46 AM

Diary : "Please Comment:: A Conversation about Raising the Quality of"

Writers love to swear as well


Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 5:11:50 PM

Diary : "Please Comment:: A Conversation about Raising the Quality of"

Seems to me the site works pretty well


Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 4:10:48 PM

Diary : "AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION WANTS IT 'THEIR' WAY"

Love it


Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 11:38:42 AM

Diary : "WHAT HAPPENED TO CHERYL BIREN-WRIGHT'S ARTICLE?"

It went from 'headlined' to 'scrolled off' in a single day?


Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 3:46:36 AM

Diary : "WHAT HAPPENED TO CHERYL BIREN-WRIGHT'S ARTICLE?"

How do I make this clear?


Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 1:23:54 AM

Diary : "WHAT HAPPENED TO CHERYL BIREN-WRIGHT'S ARTICLE?"

Not on my screen you're not


Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 2:24:15 PM

Article : "If an Increased Sanction Resolution, 362, Could Give Bush Li"

One of the best reporting jobs in OEN history, Cheryl


Monday, June 30, 2008 at 1:36:26 PM

Diary : "IRAN DRAMATICALLY EXPANDS COVERT OPERATIONS INSIDE AMERICA"

I don't understand this comment


Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 10:50:12 AM

Article : "The Democrats' Risky Strategy"

A brilliantly formulated discussion, Dan


Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 10:28:10 AM

Article : "Send the Justices FROM Hell TO Hell"

Ah, what a very long way we have come


Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 10:09:17 AM

Article : "The Obama Problem"

Y'ALL KEEP EXPECTING 'PROGRESSIVES' TO HAVE ANSWERS


Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 9:57:56 AM

Diary : "THIRD-WORLD TO FIRST-WORLD--ANYBODY LISTENING?"

Pleeze (or perhaps the alternate, please)


Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 8:22:18 AM

Poll : "Poll: Should The Catholic Church Excommunicate Justices Alit"

The Catholic Church doesn't have much of a record


Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 8:15:45 AM

Diary : "New: Rankings for most forwarded articles, diaiies, polls, e"

NYT and WaPo don't have 'most e-mailed' categories?


Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 8:11:57 AM

Quicklink : "No more whistleblowing? Federal Fraud Suit Against Voting Ma"

I can only presume irony, Wolfie


Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 9:40:49 AM

Article : "Floods: Army Corps Says PR Turns Babblers into Spokespersons"

The Army Corps of Engineers


Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 3:40:44 PM

Diary : "HENRY PAULSON'S REALLY BAD IDEA"

Nobody gives a shit, Ed


Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 4:45:57 PM

Article : "Gas Prices: A Blessing in Disguise?"

Well, M'lord


Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 4:32:45 PM

Article : "Reverse Henry-Fordism"

There are no sellers without buyers


Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 4:42:25 PM

Article : "The Song My Paddle Sings"

That sounds like the Boundary Waters


Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 11:42:18 AM

Diary : "EXXON PINS ITS DEALERS TO THE MAT"

Ah, the good old days


Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 8:47:17 AM

Diary : "Interest Free Credit Cards – Compare Credit Cards to get the"

If you are simply looking for a credit card to use


Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 8:37:49 AM

Diary : "The Derivatives Market is Unwinding!"

The salvation of the capitalist system


Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 8:24:44 AM

Quicklink : "Revealed: Secret Plan to Keep Iraq Under US Control"

The question of course


Friday, May 30, 2008 at 3:29:48 AM

Diary : "Hoe Do I Make You All Understand COMPLICITY?"

Yeah, the major problem, Brett


Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 9:43:14 AM

Diary : "Challenge to Rob Kall"

Excellent article, Brett


Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 5:52:36 PM

Diary : "Programs Which the Government Claims Are Aimed At Foreign En"

Kind of snarky to comment on your own article


Monday, May 12, 2008 at 3:48:27 PM

Article : "Mass Commuter Migration"

This is an interesting treatise


Monday, May 12, 2008 at 12:12:18 PM

Diary : "TORTURE IS OUT--COERCING IS IN"

I've got a hunch, but it's only a hunch


Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 5:00:56 PM

Article : "Most Race-Baiting Column EVER!"

All very dangerous conjecture


Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 3:24:22 PM

Article : "Will SuperDuper Delegates Change The Race?"

This is all such a pile of crap


Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 5:18:17 PM

Quicklink : "Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global"

Without even pausing for breath


Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 5:09:57 PM

Article : "Dem Wins Long-Held Louisiana Republican Congressional Seat"

Is there anyone out there

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