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Frank J. Ranelli is an independent scholar, skeptic and critic, author and essayist. His erudite and iconoclastic style of provocative writing has been extensively published in a variety of news outlets and across the Internet. These include the Naples Daily News, The Online Journal, Information Clearing House, Alternet, The Smirking Chimp, and the former progressive journal of thought, Wicked Philosophy.

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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 26, 2006
George Bush, Indefensible and Un-American: The Path to Treachery Any government faction within the U.S. that claims it alone is supremely right is un-American. Any President seeking to monopolize lies as truth and claims an omnipotent capacity to do so, while denigrating anyone who dares to challenge his vile revision of history is treacherous.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 22, 2008
Just who is Chet Edwards? The Obama Democratic Veepstakes is approaching a frenetic and feverish pitch. Is it Joe Biden, Evan Bayh, or even Hillary Clinton? Surprisingly, and perhaps to the dismay of many progressives, liberals, and democratic voters the answer may be a resounding, "No."
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 28, 2006
Sherrod Brown of Ohio Capitulates to Bush and Approves Torture! Sherrod Brown, once seen by many as a true Democrat, a real liberal, and a viable alternative to Mike DeWine, forfeited his progressive values and the rule of law, in order to score election points. How? By yielding to the Bush cartel and voting for torture!
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 17, 2007
Former Ohio AG Jim Petro Likely to be Replacement for Deborah Pryce in OH-15 In the wake of the current Republican D.C. mass exodus, that now includes Ohio's own favorite Bush toady, Deborah Pryce; it appears that former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro (R) will try his sorry hand at yet another republican political run. This time, for Pryce's soon to be vacated and soiled congressional seat.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 14, 2008
Does Chris Matthews have a problem with women? Is Chris Matthews of MSNBC waging a hostile, chauvinist's agenda against Hillary Clinton and women? His abject track record against women says, "Yes." It's time to end the misogyny of Matthews.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Electronic Voting Machines "Hack" off Democrat Jim Webb's Name from November Ballot! Hacks, hackers and hacking off! How the right-wing machine and its "machines of voter mayhem" intend to steal your vote again by hacking off the Democratic candidate's last name from the ballot!
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 28, 2006
One Nation Under "Whose God is it Anyway?" From atheists to polytheists, from Allah to Buddha, just whose God is it anyway? How realism and not mysticism can deliver us from a dark time in our history.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 29, 2008
Bush's Great Bailout is Merely Fear Du Jour Bush's bail out of Wall Street is a leap into Robber Baron-style tyranny. Congress must reject this absolutist, radical proposal outright. Rewarding bad behavior on Wall Street, by theft of money obtained through taxpayers on Main Street, is more than perverse it is an insidious act of vile turpitude.
(26 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 29, 2007
Christians' Addiction to Porn Blamed on Technology The Religious Right's newest adversary of evangelicalism and outward disdain for pornography may have less to do with their distaste for it and more to do with the fact it is maxing out their credit cards.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 29, 2006
Bush's Wonderland and through the Looking Glass of Iraq Seduced by a powerful cocktail of intoxicating hysteria, America tumbled down the rabbit hole of Bush's Wonderland only to discover the looking glass was a window in reverse with a frightening view.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Bush by the Numbers While fixated solely on a massively deteriorating situation in Iraq, Bush continues his irreverence and refuses to listen to the voice of America. Now, in a shockingly candid and irrefutable rejection of Bush's imperialism, a new poll makes clear American's umbrage with their 43rd president.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 10, 2006
The Case for Impeachment: A Thunderous Cry for Bush's Removal and Why! Why the book, The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office, is a must read for every American of all political stripes and parties!
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 11, 2006
America: Dead-Democracy Walking The apathy, silence and complacency of the 21st century American. Part III of the "American Democracy in Crisis" series.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 15, 2007
Bush administration was either incompetent or is guilty of malfeasance George Bush has been likely caught in another lie, another cover up, and another scandal. One that may debunk his entire justifications for violating FISA, or worse yet, show that the 9/11 attacks were not prevented due to gross incompetence!
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 3, 2007
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich Eviscerates Bush, Calls War on Terror "Phony" The contentious and conservative, erstwhile Speaker of the House bemoans how Bush has helped America become a country that is "no longer serious", harshly criticizes the Bush administration's handling of terrorist groups, calling the war on terror "phony", and claims hyper-partisanship is a "stupid way to run a country".
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 6, 2007
A Prescient Thought to Ponder, Especially for Republicans A Bush proclivity for secrecy, a reputation for arrogance and power grabs, and openly flouting the rule of law has one conservative Republican asking, "Do we candidly desire reaping what we have sown over the past six-plus years?"
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 3, 2006
How to Erode Bush's Base: One Man's Journey from Blind Loyalist to Visionary Patriot! A real-life story, of how one man was rescued from the jaws of the democracy-eating Bush regime, saved from drowning in a cesspool of war propaganda and found the Patriot Act was not so patriotic, after all!
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 29, 2008
New Orleans vs. Iraq: If Only it was Just Billions The Bush Iraq and Afghanistan wars will cost the U.S. $2.4 trillion, but some fiscal conservatives and anti-tax crusaders are still fixated on derailing the billions of dollars requisite to restore a city lost to Bush's incompetence and hubris – the city of New Orleans.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 1, 2006
Vigilante Troops Doll-out Ultra-harsh Punishment for Stealing Wood! A group of rogue, U.S. soldiers in Iraq takes matters and the law into their own hands and subjects a band of unarmed Iraqi civilians to a shocking display of abuse of power and barbarism!

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