38 online
 
Most Popular Choices
Become a Premium Member Would you like to know how many people have visited this page? Or how reputable the author is? Simply sign up for a Advocate premium membership and you'll automatically see this data on every article. Plus a lot more, too.



SHARE More Sharing

Frank Vyan Walton

Facebook page url on login Profile not filled in       Twitter page url on login Profile not filled in       Linkedin page url on login Profile not filled in       Instagram page url on login Profile not filled in

                 

Volunteer a little time and make a big difference

Become a Fan
Become a Fan.
You'll get emails whenever I post articles on OpEd News

Born and Bred in South Central LA. I spent 12 years working in the IT Dept. for federal contractor Northrop-Grumman on classified and high security projects such as the B2 Bomber. After Northrop I became an IT consultant with the state of California in Sacramento and worked on projects with the Dept of Consumer Affairs and CalTrans, as well as projects for Kaiser Permanente in Oakland. Now living in Los Angeles with my own independant web design company where I operate the Truth 2 Power Online Radio Station.

www.truth2powerproject.com

OpEd News Member for 889 week(s) and 5 day(s)

70 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 12 Comments, 1 Diaries, 0 Polls

Articles Listed By Popularity
List By Date

Page 1 of 4    First  Last   Back  Next  2  3  4     View All

(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 26, 2009
The Top 10 Torturoous Lies of Liz Cheney Taking down the Tortore Talking Points of Liz Cheney One by One.
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 27, 2007
The Sociopathic Disease of Conservatism I've made this argument - that Conservatism is a Disease - for quite sometime, but this will be one of the first times I really get down to the nitty gritty of it. It's been my feeling that the modern day conservative cult that thrives in America is fueled by a low-grade form of anti-social pathology and compulsive-addictive disorder. They're like Hate-Junkies. And the number one thing they hate are Liberals.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Rush Limbaugh is Losing it over Media Matters How deep has the Imus debacle push Rush Limbaugh into his paranoid fantasies are he claims that David Brock's Media Matters is part of the Vast Left-Wing Hillary Clinton media Conspiracy?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 8, 2007
TPM: Is This Monica Goodling? Josh Marshall reveals the deeply partisan and political past of Monica Goodling, the DOJ White House Liason who has chosen to hide behind the 5th Amendment rather than reveal to congress the political machinations involved in Gonzales-Gate!
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 6, 2007
Were the Anthrax Attacks on Congress the act of the U.S. Government? One Lone Bioweapons expert posits that the Anthrax Attack on Sen. Leahy and Sen. Daschle may have had it's roots right here in the U.S., and it's investigation deliberately botched by the FBI. Has he gone round the bend, does he have more than an inkling of the truth, or have we reached a point where the idea of even most henious acts by the Bush Admin have become passe?
(19 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 4, 2009
Conyers calls for Special Prosecutor for Bush Crimes his is just up from The Public Record by Jason Leopold On Thursday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers quietly released the final draft of an extensive report he first unveiled in January documenting the Bush administration's "unreviewable war powers" and the possible crimes committed in implementing those policies.
(15 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 28, 2009
Children Raped at Abu Ghraib, General Calls it a War Crime A new interview with Maj. General Taguba confirms long reported allegations that Men, Women and Children were Raped and assaulted at Abu Ghraib in commission of a War Crime.
Trump  Brennan, From YouTubeVideos
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 18, 2018
Federal Prosecutor says revoking the security clearances of witnesses could be a Federal Crime Because it could be witness retaliation to threaten someone who has provided truthful testimony to the government.
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, September 22, 2007
10 Fast and Easy Steps from Freedom to Fascism Author Naomi Wolf has come forward in recent days to note that the 10 Steps which have historically led from a free democracy to a totalitarian dictatorship have alreaden been taken - by our own U.S. Government. And so far, most people have responded with a resounding... yawn. Which is exactly according to plan.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 31, 2007
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you... then they fight you, then you win." Gandhi's prophetic words may be proving true yet again as an epic battle escalates between the Netroots and the Wingnuts on all fronts.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 16, 2007
Hyping the Hip-Hop Hate Myth Picking up where Imus left off, Michelle Malkin leads to charge to blame Black people for the racism directed against them.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 24, 2007
Caging; It's Voter Suppression, Stupid! What whopper of a bombshell did Monica Gooding drop during her Congressional Testimony, but has so far gone unnoticed? The involvment of Temporary U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin in Voter Suppression.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 5, 2007
What did Rice Know (About the Niger Forgeries) and when did she know it? Henry Waxman wants to talk to a State Dept Analyst who identified the Niger Documents as "clearly a forgery" months before the President's 2003 State of the Union - he just has to go through Secratary Condoleezza (The Obstructor) Rice first.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 6, 2007
The Geraldo/O'Reilly Dustup : Proof of the Unbalanced? Was their on air spat simply a case of O'Reilly finally losing it, or was there much more at play in his War of Words with Geraldo Rivera?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 9, 2009
For the Last Time - ALL OF IT - was Torture! Repeatedly the argue over what is or isn't "Torture" has revolved are one specific technique - "Waterboarding". Yet the law and facts indicate that *All* physically and psychologically coercive interrogations are in fact, Torture and War Crimes.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 5, 2007
The Brutality of Rudy Giuliani Rudy's history of "tough guy" authoritarianism runs long and it runs deep. It just might be exactly what the GOP is looking for to replace Bush, and what those who love freedom most fear.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 18, 2007
Jon Stewart : Time to End the "Traitor" Talk On The Daily Show Host Jon Stewart faces off with Cheney Biographer Stephen Hayes and points out that being right about how wrong the Iraq War has been is not "Treason."
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 29, 2007
The Contempt of Condoleezza Today the Secretary of State made a whirlwind tour appearing both on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer and This Week with George Stephanapolous to address the multi-headed shit storm that coming her way from the never-ending 16 Words Controversy, George Tenet's New Book, her failure to respond to 9-11 warnings and apparent "inclination" to ignore a Congressional Subpoena.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 22, 2007
Gingrich blames "Liberalism" for Va. Tech Killings On Today's "This Week" Newt Gingrinch repeats his oft-repeated refrain that "Liberalism" has polluted our culture and deserves the blame for the actions of a crazed craven suicidal mass-murderer.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 19, 2007
This Failed Presidency Commentary: Sometimes I'm completely dumbstruck at what this President has so nonchalantly wrought, how he has destroyed American credibility, broken our military and destroyed Iraq while time and time again letting those who attacked us off Scott Free and criminally neglecting the needs of nation at home. The full extent of it all is truly staggering.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Gibson thinks Jon Stewart "purposefully" misunderstood being mocked over 9/11? Fox News John Gibson's think that Jon Stewart can't take a joke, but maybe he should start by making a joke first?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 28, 2007
The Big Soros Lie Ever since the dull thud of Don Imus crashing down from the high media heavens back to earth began to reverberate through the punditosphere - all the little trained monkeys whirling the crank on the Right-Wing Werlitzer have been quaking in their boots and coming unglued.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 19, 2007
The Suicidal Army: Bush's Disturbing Legacy to our Troops Time to stop sweeping the Troops under the rug as the rate of military suicides skyrocket and health care plummets, Capt Jon Soltz of Votevets.org speaks out.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 15, 2007
The Unintended Consequences of Rutgers and Imus How forced silence on issues of Race and Sex could blow up in all of our faces - literally.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 9, 2007
Kerry v McCain on the Presi-Treaus Report and "Making Progress" In Iraq On This Week: John McCain and John Kerry go round and round over the Presi-Treaus Report, and just how deep is the quagmire of Viet-Raq.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 24, 2007
The True Goal of Gonzo-Gate: Tamping Down the Black Vote We've heard the Attorney General's explainations, but exactly why where various U.S. Attorney's summarily fired. Could it be because of the increasing politization of the DOJ, paticularly the Civil Rights Division whose is supposed to protect the voting rights of our most vulnerable citizens?
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 10, 2007
Surge Protection and the Al-Anbar Happy Dance If read the media reports, things are going "Swimmingly with the Surge" except that if you read the fine print and see that most of our recent military successes hav come from areas we *didn't* surge into...
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Moyers Exposes the Lapdog Media In a PBS Documentary Airing Tonight, Bill Moyers examines how the Whitehouse Press Corp and Mainstream Media willingly aided and abetted the lies and exaggerations of Bushco as they led us into an unneccesary attack and occupation of Iraq.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 21, 2007
MSNBC's Tucker Carlson Attacks the Troops (82nd Airborne Op-Ed) Seven Members of the 82nd Airborne tell us about the "War As they See it" after 15 months of being "In Country" , and MSNBC Host Tucker says - "What the Hell would (They) Know About it?"
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 21, 2007
Cheney's Office Scoffs at National Security Rules - Literally In order to avoid National Security Reporting requirements, Dick Cheney claims that he's not part of the "Executive Branch." I kid you not.
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 1, 2007
Why Al Gore HAS to be the Next President There are many reasons to support various Democratic Candidiates, but there are also reasons by Al Gore's Presidency would surpass them all.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 2, 2007
Matt Dowd: Another Former Rat-F@cker Jumps Ship Bush's former chief political advisers states that "Kerry was Right" about the Iraq War.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 20, 2007
Gonzales Bombs in front of tough Senate Crowd and everywhere else Alberto Gonzales testimony before the Senate yesterday has been generally panned by Democrats, Republicans, Editorial Pages and even the fired Attorney's - but his support from the President remains strong.
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 27, 2007
It's Official : The DOJ will not enforce the House Contempt Charges The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten in Contempt of Congress and the DOJ has announced it's intention to ignore the law - but is that the end of the issue or have we just begun this new Constitutional Circus?
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 12, 2007
CBS Gross Hypocrisy in Firing Gen John Batiste This week CBS fired Army Gen. John Batiste as a on-air consultant for his participation in an anti-Surge ad by Vote Vets, but who else on their payroll has made taken strong positions of advocacy in favor of the Bush Administration, yet their credibility has not come into question?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 17, 2007
Melanie Morgan (KSFO) is a complete and total MorAn! KSFO Host Melanie Morgan opens mouth, inserts foot, ankle and calf... on the issue of "Military Hipocracy"
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 20, 2007
KSFO's Melanie Morgan Threatens head of VoteVets with Violence Conservative Radio Host suggests one of our Iraq War Veterans should be "stomped like a coachroach" for daring to oppose the war and speak out. So just what are they actually fighting for over there, the right to be silenced?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Far Worse then Just a Pardon... The Libby Commutation may actually be a far more onerous action than a Pardon would have been, in fact - it could be Check and Mate for FourthBranch and his ongoing War with the Rule of Law.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 8, 2007
Right Wing Attacks Live Earth...and misses by a Planet This Week's Live Earth Concert has brought the Climate Change Deniers Club out in full vitriol and psychosis - but this time their new clothes are plain for all to (not) see.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Juan Williams Defends Yearlykos on Faux...and Wins?! A strange thing happened on the way to the latest Yearlykos Flogging on Fox News, a genuine Democrat may have actually shown up - if only for a moment.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Taliban and Al-Qaeda announce Merger - Dow Skyrockets! Corporate America Triumphs and Cheers while American Citizens and Soldiers Die fighting the Wrong War in the Wrong Country. Just kidding, kinda...
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 29, 2007
Avoiding the Executive Privilege Sand Trap With the White House going into full-on Stonewall mode, exactly how do we get the answers to the questions that Congress has been asking about the DOJ firings and NSA Wiretap program? Perhaps Nixon may have already given us the answer.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 1, 2008
Welcome to the Nation of Glass America: Land of the Fragile, Home of the Scared.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 16, 2007
Do the Neo-Con/Artists really believe their own B.S.? Are Wingnuts trying to convince us that their lies are true, that up is down, day is night - or are they really trying to convince themselves in order to justify and excuse their own actions?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 24, 2007
Blackwater shooting caught on Video, Charges Filed Last weeks shooting by operatives of the Military Contracting firm Blackwater nearly had them expelled from Iraq until the U.S. State Dept intervened - now a video of the incident has surfaced showing the attack was completely unprovoked and the Iraqi Government is filing charges.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 29, 2007
We Eat Our Own, Don't We? Democrats at their own throats? Tragic, but maybe - just maybe, that might be why they may be America's last, best hope.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 13, 2007
Yet Another Purged U.S. Attorney? In the wake of the latest Gonzales hearings, more rumblings have emerged of yet another U.S. Attorney who suspects he might have been the victim of the political purging of the DOJ. Or was he?
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Silent Rage: From Columbine, Virginia Tech to Iraq and Back Eight years ago while I was a member of a struggling hard rock band in Sacramento called Planet X, I wrote a song called Silent Rage - that effectively predicted the original massacre at Columbine. Today I have some more predictions.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 1, 2007
Winning the War on Reality Just how do you "catapult the propaganda" of the Reality-Based community when the opposition seems socompletely impervious to fact and reason?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 6, 2007
Maddow vs Malkin on the Bridge Collapse and the "Kossification" of America Rachel Maddow argues that the Minnesota Bridge Collapse is the foregone result of Repulican policies, Micheal Malkin argues that Democrats are pointing fingers instead of lifting them to help - but who is really exploiting a tragedy for partisan gain?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 6, 2007
This is NOT America Micheal Mukasey is approved by the Senate Judiciary Committe and the True American Values die just a little bit more.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 10, 2007
Gitmo Lawyers Challenge New FISA Bill in Court
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Dowd Defection only the first crack in the Bush inner-circle Dam? Matthew Dowd, Bush's former campaign director's stinging rebuke of his Iraq policy this weekend was painful, but possibly not as painful as the revelations from other former Bush insiders yet to come.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Libby Commuted to Pacify Cheney Micheal Isikoff in Newsweek reports that the Scooter Libby commute may have been implemented to maintain domestic bliss between the VP and his second in command, George W. Bush.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Disappointed Tha sad sorry Reverend Wright affair has finally drawn to a close, and all I can feel - is disappointment.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Michael Moore Returns to CNN Today After a week of battling of the details and facts portrayed in his new film SiCKO, Michael Moore plans to return to that wretched hive of scum and villiany known as - CNN.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 31, 2007
How Sampson Drove the Bus over Gonzo! How Kyle Sampson's Senate Testimony on Attorney-Gate contradicts Alberto Gonzales and the facts.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 23, 2007
Bob Schieffer owes Harry Reid a Big Fat Apology The Right-Wing Spin Machine reaches out once again and yanks the strings of one more of it's puppet in the Main Stream Media - but yet again the facts get in the way.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 3, 2007
The Next Veto Threat - Bush *hearts* Hate Criminals Fast on the heels on his second all-time Veto, President Bush has already begun the rumblings for his third. This time though the issue isn't Stem Cells, or the continuation of the Iraq Escalation - this time he's threatening to Veto legislation that would help prevent hate crimes.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 8, 2007
Surge Suppression: New Intel Report indicates that the Escalation will Fail A New closed-door intelligence report given to the Senate Armed Services Committe indicates that The Surge has little chance to succeed, but will Bush bother to listen to it and his new War Czar or treat it as he has the Iraq Survey Group Report and Iraq NIE - like bird-cage lining?
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 18, 2007
Iraq is NOT Korea, it's more like Northern Ireland and we're the Brits There are bad analogies and there are ridiculous ones. Comparing the conflict in Iraq to the Korean War is the later, but still there may be some comparisons which just might show how this conflict *could* be resolved, if we have the courage and clarity to recognize them.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 1, 2007
The Real Bloggers of Baghdad What do Baghdad Bloggers really have to say about the state of Iraq?
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 15, 2007
Al Qaeda in Iraq Defeated!? A top U.S. Commander in Iraq wants to declare that Al Qaeda in Iraq has been "Defeated", but is this only "Mission Acomplished" Mark II - or something more?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 22, 2007
Conyers seeks Contempt of Congress against White House The House Judiciary Committee has announced they will be seeking to vote on Contempt of Congress against several Which House Officials over their refusal to respond to subpoenas in regards to DOJ-Gate. Criminal Charges could subsequently ensue, or will they?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 22, 2007
Ending the Iraq Occupation Vs Impeachment : Which do you choose? False Dichotomy or Hobson's Choice? Will we have to suffer the remainder of Bush's Presidency in order to put a stop to the carnage in Iraq, or is there yet another option?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 28, 2007
Mukasey Must Be Blocked! If the man who would seek to become the Top Law Enforcement Officer of the most powerful nation on the earth doesn't know the law, then he certainly should not be handed the reins of power. It's non-negotiable.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Showdown at the White House over Iraq President Bush invites Congressional Democrats for a frank White House "discussion" about the way forward in Iraq. Y'know - "My Way or the High Way!" So what else is new?
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 15, 2007
DOJ Inspector General looking to Obstruction by Gonzales Department of Justice Inspector General Glen Fine has begun an investigation into weather AG Gonzales obstructed justice and coached testimony by Monica Goodling, but will that investigation be able to proceed?
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 26, 2008
It had to be this way... Noone, but noone, could have finally taken Hillary out of this race, except Hillary. No even if there is some catastrophy and she wins, she still loses.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 29, 2007
Conservatives Refuse to Defend Gonzales on Faux News Y'know it bad when even your best friends won't come to the wake. In this case on Fox News Sunday, where spokesmen from the White House and Congress were invited to Defend Alberto Gonzales - but choose not to appear and Newt Gingrich who did appear had few positive things to say about Gonzo.

Page 1 of 4    First  Last   Back  Next  2  3  4     View All

Tell A Friend