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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 3 day(s)

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

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Saturday, September 12, 2009
HATE THE CORRUPTER, LOVE THE CORRUPT
Concerts and the Wizards? He's on trial for concert and sports tickets?

Saturday, May 16, 2009
1,015 AMERICANS PROVIDE A DRAMATIC AND MEANINGLESS HEADLINE
Releasing the result of the poll a day ahead of President Obama's Notre Dame commencement speech does matter, in that the sign-carriers will now be up all night, perfecting their protest technique.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
A NO-PIRATE ZONE FOR THE GULF OF ADEN

Sunday, April 12, 2009
STUFF THAT LEAKS OUT ON SUNDAYS
Investments Can Yield More on K Street, Study Indicates

Friday, October 17, 2008
HOME AUCTIONS--KILLING HOMEOWNERS AND BANKS
(1 comments)

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
THE IRONY OF SENATOR SCHUMER ON EXECUTIVE PAY
(2 comments)

Monday, October 13, 2008
CAPITAL IS DOING JUST FINE WITH REGARD TO BANKS

Saturday, October 11, 2008
CHRYSLER--A LIKEABLE ROUNDHEELS--WILL SELL ITSELF TO ANYONE
What a grand old business the management in Detroit has managed to muck up. Oldsmobile, Packard, Studebaker, Hudson, LaSalle and the venerable old badge, Duesenberg--all gone to the collector's. The chairmen of Ford, Chrysler and GM are all hired guns, veritable undertakers somberly marching their once great companies to the graveyard.

Saturday, October 11, 2008
AT LAST--AN IRAQ EXIT STRATEGY SUPPORTED BY THE MEDIA

Friday, October 10, 2008
"NEVER SEEN PANIC LIKE THIS" IS THE CENTRAL PROBLEM
How do these people get to be chief economists at rating agencies?

Thursday, October 9, 2008
A BAIL-OUT LIMERICK, By Jim Freeman
(2 comments)

Thursday, October 9, 2008
AT LAST--BANKS NOW UNWILLING TO LEND AT A BETTER RATE
(1 comments) Absurdly low interest rates are, of course, how Alan Greenspan got us here in the first place. But hey, when all else fails, go back to what is tried and untrue.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
BAILING OUT WOODEN ARROWS WITH WOODEN NICKELS
(1 comments) In case you missed the point of the failure in the House of Representatives to pass Hank Paulson's giveaway to his former partners in crime over at Goldman Sachs, it was to provide political cover for the coming election, while allowing the Senate to unashamedly lard the legislation.

Sunday, October 5, 2008
DEFUSING A BAR-FIGHT BY HANDING ONE GUY A BROKEN BOTTLE
(2 comments)

Friday, October 3, 2008
SWAPPED OUT OF OUR UNDERWEAR BY CREDIT DEFAULTS

Thursday, October 2, 2008
THE PELOSI HOUSE--ROTTEN TO ITS VERY FOUNDATION
(4 comments)

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
DEFINE "CONSTITUENT"

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
"THEY JUST DON'T GET IT" WAILS WALL STREET
(1 comments)

Monday, September 29, 2008
THE PAULSON-DRIVEN MARSHALL PLAN

Friday, September 26, 2008
THOSE WHO EAT AND THOSE WHO SERVE
(1 comments) The 9,000 bank presidents who are doing just fine and stayed out of the feeding-frenzy of fraudulent mortgages, have one thing in common.

Friday, September 26, 2008
LENDERS HOARD THEIR CASH--ASK FOR YOURS
(1 comments)

Sunday, September 21, 2008
ONE MAN'S VAST IS ANOTHER MAN'S HALF-VAST

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
SUNNIS LAYING LOW IN IRAQ AND WAITING FOR THE PULLOUT

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
HOMELAND SECURITY--LOSING YOUR MONEY AT $1.5 MILLION AN HOUR

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
OLD-BOY NETWORKER MCCAIN BLAMES THE OLD BOY NETWORK

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
FIRST NEOCONS DEREGULATE--THEN BLAME DEREGULATION
(1 comments)

Monday, September 15, 2008
HILLARY IN THE CAT-BIRD SEAT

Saturday, September 13, 2008
THE FED AND WALL STREET, 4TH AND GOAL FOR QUARTERBACK PAULSON
(3 comments)

Friday, September 12, 2008
LEHMAN BROTHERS--FROM VENERABLE TO VULNERABLE
(1 comments)

Thursday, September 11, 2008
SEVEN YEARS AFTER 9-11, TIME TO GET OVER IT
(3 comments)

Thursday, September 11, 2008
FANNIE-FREDDIE FOX TO CLEAN FANNIE-FREDDIE CHICKENCOOP
(1 comments)

Thursday, September 11, 2008
KARL ROVE--PERSONALLY RUNNING THE MCCAIN 'CHANGE'

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
THE AFGHAN AIRSTRIKE THAT WON'T GO AWAY

Monday, September 8, 2008
BUSH ON INDIA, FRYING PAN TO FIRE, OIL TO NUCLEAR

Sunday, September 7, 2008
FIRST WE SAVE--THEN WE DECIDE WHAT IT IS WE HAVE SAVED

Saturday, September 6, 2008
THE IRONY OF DICK CHENEY NOT UNDERSTANDING IRONY

Friday, September 5, 2008
BOB WOODWARD--INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM BY THE VOLUME

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
REBUILD GEORGIAN ARMED FORCES? FOR WHAT?

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
JAPAN BECOMES THE NEW ITALY
(1 comments)

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
CHARLATANS WITHOUT BORDERS--THE NEW GLOBALISM

Monday, September 1, 2008
GOODNIGHT, ANBAR PROVINCE, AND GOOD LUCK

Monday, September 1, 2008
SARAH PALIN RELATED E-MAIL FROM A FRIEND

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION--THE PANTS SUIT DEPARTS, BUT THE SILLINESS LINGERS ON

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
WHEN THE TARGETING EVIDENCE FAILS--"CONTINUE TO BELIEVE"
(1 comments)

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
BORDER SECURITY--ACCEPTING THE FABRIC OF FEAR

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
SAVED BY SARKOZY, DICK CHENEY LIMPS INTO GEORGIA

Thursday, August 21, 2008
"FIRST WE TAKE"--THE LESSONS FROM 1933 GERMANY
(15 comments)

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
SOPHISTICATED ANALYSIS--A DHS OXYMORON

Monday, August 18, 2008
MY PLAN TO SAVE GENERAL MOTORS

Sunday, August 17, 2008
SERVICE JOBS? EXCUSE ME?
(4 comments)

Saturday, August 16, 2008
THE NEXT GREAT IDEA IN THE BUSH DOCTRINE OF PREEMPTIVE WAR

Thursday, August 14, 2008
Born in Blood, Founded by Terrorists, Israel Confronts Iran on Morality
(5 comments)

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
ONE MAN'S STRANGLEHOLD IS ANOTHER MAN'S MARKET-SHARE

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
SAME OLD SAME OLD--CEASE AND DESIST INSTEAD OF JAIL
(1 comments)

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
GPS--MORE THAN JUST A DEVICE ON YOUR DASHBOARD

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
WRECKING GOVERNMENT ON THE WAY OUT

Monday, August 11, 2008
RETICENCE OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA FINALLY REPORTED

Saturday, August 9, 2008
ROBERT GATES, THE RIGHT MAN AT A VERY LATE TIME IN THE GAME
(1 comments)

Saturday, August 9, 2008
FINDING WORK THAT DOESN'T COMPROMISE YOUR ETHICS

Thursday, August 7, 2008
BRILLIANTLY PUT BY COLUMNIST DAVID IGNATIUS

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
DOES A WIRETAP ACTUALLY NEED A WIRE?

Sunday, August 3, 2008
SAVING BELIEF IN AMERICA BEFORE IT SINKS FROM SIGHT

Friday, August 1, 2008
To the Editors at OpEdNews:
(17 comments)

Thursday, July 31, 2008
In My Dreams, Google Takes Down Microsoft
(4 comments)

Thursday, July 31, 2008
PARDON ME WHILE I RETCH--THE NATION'S INTERVIEW WITH PELOSI
(9 comments)

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
How Did 'Investor Satisfaction' Ever Get to be a Taxpayer Priority?
(4 comments)

Sunday, July 27, 2008
HANGING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION BY THE NECK UNTIL DEAD

Friday, July 25, 2008
ONE OLD JEW AND A COUPLE SELF-INTERESTED GENERALS RE-CREATE THE EIGHTIES
(6 comments)

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
THE DANA TAG-TEAM, PLUS MY SOLUTION FOR WALTER REED

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
WHAT'S WITH THIS WHOLE THING ABOUT 'POLITICAL APPOINTEES?'

Monday, July 21, 2008
LIKE WE HADN'T NOTICED--EXAMPLE #437

Thursday, July 17, 2008
MEMO FROM OZ--MERRILL LYNCH AND GOOGLE

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
IF YOU RUN WITH DOGS, YOU GET FLEAS
Mugabe has virtually destroyed Zimbabwe--Mbeki chose support.

Monday, July 14, 2008
Saving Face in the Washington-Insider Pissing Match
Foreign policy is no longer about how America should react to events in the world. It has become a matter of 'branding,' a chance to hang a presidential catch-phrase on history

Monday, July 14, 2008
THE LATEST IN UNPRECEDENTED SCAMS--ER--PLANS
No matter how you slice this rotten apple, the Fed is essentially opening the U.S.Treasury to two governmental agencies no investor will touch with a ten-foot pole.

Saturday, July 12, 2008
SO MUCH FOR REFORM, RECOVERY AND ENFORCEMENT
Chuck Schumer gets blamed for the IndyMac meltdown

Friday, July 11, 2008
STEVEN PEARLSTEIN--TELLING IT LIKE IT IS
(1 comments)

Thursday, July 10, 2008
A Financial System On Steroids

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
A TAG-TEAM TO SAVE INVESTORS' BACON

Saturday, July 5, 2008
IRAQI 4TH OF JULY SALE--BIG MARKDOWNS BY AMERICA

Saturday, July 5, 2008
MORE GOOD NEWS FROM NEBRASKA BEEF--A COMPANY THAT SUES ITS VICTIMS
(1 comments)

Saturday, July 5, 2008
GLOBAL WARMING NOT THE ONLY THREAT TO HIGH MOUNTAIN MEADOWS

Friday, July 4, 2008
AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION WANTS IT 'THEIR' WAY
(2 comments)

Thursday, July 3, 2008
CHENEY DESPERATE FOR IRAN WAR, EVEN IF ISRAEL HAS TO WAGE IT

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
WHAT HAPPENED TO CHERYL BIREN-WRIGHT'S ARTICLE?
(8 comments)

Monday, June 30, 2008
IRAN DRAMATICALLY EXPANDS COVERT OPERATIONS INSIDE AMERICA
(2 comments)

Saturday, June 28, 2008
THE STORY OF 'NO STORY'

Saturday, June 28, 2008
THIRD-WORLD TO FIRST-WORLD--ANYBODY LISTENING?
(3 comments)

Thursday, June 26, 2008
FOR PENTAGON 'DISINTEGRATION OF ECOSYSTEMS' AN OPERATIONAL PROBLEM

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
TRUSTING TO FRAUD FOR A SOLUTION TO FRAUD
(1 comments)

Thursday, June 19, 2008
HENRY PAULSON'S REALLY BAD IDEA
(2 comments)

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
AN ADVOCACY PROBLEM IN THE "WHAT'S NEEDED" DEPARTMENT

Friday, June 13, 2008
HARDENED SUSPECTS AND INNOCENT CAB DRIVERS

Thursday, June 12, 2008
THE QUESTION IS, CAN YOU STILL CALL IT "MEAT?"
(4 comments)

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
WHACKING IRAQ--"NOT DEFINED" AND "DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING"

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
EXXON PINS ITS DEALERS TO THE MAT
(3 comments)

Thursday, June 5, 2008
PUTTING THE BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS--ON A DRUNK DRIVER

Thursday, May 29, 2008
Hoe Do I Make You All Understand COMPLICITY?
(3 comments)

Thursday, May 29, 2008
CLUSTER-BOMBS AND LAND-MINES--TWO INDESCRIMINATE KILLERS OF CIVILIANS ONLY THE U.S. COULD LOVE
(1 comments)

Saturday, May 24, 2008
"WE ARE NOT CATTLE"--THEY ARE, BUT WE'RE NOT

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