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Called Obama vs. The Republican Guy. Showing Obama's interest with everyone and republican's interest with corporations.
Inept, leaderless governments, stand aside so citizen-consumers can stop the daily mass murders in Syria
Citizens United
by Modern Socialist (liberal, January 25, 2012)What the heck happened. Corporations have a full right to speak their opinion. But not while using money to overshadow the public.
Citing tradition, Newt would prevent gays from marrying. Yet one of his ex-wives says he wanted anything but tradition for them.
Using the Keystone pipeline as an example, we will examine the GOP need to lie and the conservative need to believe the lies.
As long as there are wolves in the forest, the sheep need a sheep dog.
Special Needs
by Modern Socialist (liberal, January 16, 2012)An article about people with special needs (Autism, Down Syndrome, Aspergers, ADHD etc.) and the effects of the over generalization of these people on their education.
The loss of a government job is not a good thing. The taxpayer will save nothing. In fact, the unemployed former federal worker is now on the unemployment rolls. Where is the wisdom in that?
Israel's Bigger Picture
by Modern Socialist (liberal, January 12, 2012)What most Americans think of Israel is missing part of the story. People have different opinions there, just not recognized in the U.S. by our politicians who try to help Israel.
Iowa Caucus Analysis
by Modern Socialist (liberal, January 5, 2012)After watching a GOP caucus then analyzing results while taking notes I have a full analysis of the Iowa caucus
Iowa isn't the beginning. Which republican GOP candidates have been doing sufficient work to get well known with voters uneducated in politics?
In a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Y-Q9ZY5Ao) Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina explains five different ways to get to 270 electoral votes. But are there mistakes in these plans?
The so-called Congressional 'Super Committee' was never supposed to succeed. It was a public relations vehicle designed to make people think that Congress was trying to accomplish something that it simply can not accomplish.
Direct Democracy?
by Modern Socialist (liberal, November 15, 2011)Can we maybe rely on direct democracy to solve our country problems?
October 15th Journal
by Modern Socialist (liberal, October 16, 2011)A journal entry of what happened in the October 15th Wall Street Protests. Listing the time and the event.
GOP candidates woo voters by not confusing them with bewildering facts and baffling numbers. Their voters prefer to be lied to with short, easy-to-understand sentences and simple numbers.
Perry was on top and prepared for a fight...and then something happened.
What do people say will happen on the big protest day of October 15?
Now that a connection between Main Street and Wall Street has been made, responsibility has to be taken by the powerful entity which has made the other entity even more powerless.
Protests are spreading fast. But who is against the protests and why? Does the media influence what people think of the protests? Are there any threats to the protests.
I am arguing that voting based on social values is as important as voting based on economic policy.
Can we finally end the War on Terrorism now that the chief target of it is dead?
In the wake of the mid-term elections of 2010, it seems that most Americans STILL have not learned the futility of our two-party system. We must end it in 2012!
information to help survivors choose the best therapist for their needs.
China's efforts to achieve economic prosperity may ultimately backfire, leading to poverty later.
This is an experimental game devised to check the validity of John Maynard Keynes assertion who said that professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole;
Nearly 80 percent of Americans say they can't trust Washington and they have little faith that the massive federal bureaucracy can solve the nation's ills. This anti-government feeling has driven the tea party movement. A smaller government will not solve our problems. Nothing will change until we change the way government works.
The World in 10 Years
by AmericanShiite (liberal, April 15, 2010)Where will America (and the world) be in 10 years?
What Intelligence?
by John Kozy (liberal, April 2, 2010)If the huge intelligence gathering service works effectively, why is the torture necessary? And if torture is necessary, doesn't it mean that the huge intelligence gathering service doesn't work?
Mainstream American journalism has been subjected to the severest criticism by the American public. One that has been missed is just plain bad reporting.
Fools' Rules
by John Kozy (liberal, March 3, 2010)Should law be based on rules or principles? What is the its goal? To enact rules that authorities want people to obey or to outlaw wrongdoing? The former allows the law to be used to make people conform. But conformity and freedom are incompatible. Rules-based systems turn people into sheep, allowing them to live without making moral choices. Maybe people prefer that; if so, any hope of alleviating the human condition must be abandoned, since sheep are easily led to the sheering.
With the UK's economy still in a very unstable condition, the race is on to attract the British voters to either support Conservative cuts or Labours spending, in order to regain economic growth, restore consumer confidence and reduce the massive budget deficit.
Do those who buy the paintings of long dead artists and fund buildings for artistic performances do so because they truly love the arts or because they want to boast, "Look what I can afford to do!"? There was a time when wealth supported artists. That practice died out sometime after the sixteenth century. What goes on today borders on the absurd. While huge amounts of money are being spent, the artists themselves are being neglected. This is not love of art for art's sake; it's merely benefactor aggrandizement.
Leftish Professors
by John Kozy (liberal, January 22, 2010)The notion that there is political lopsidedness in academia tilted to the left is an old canard propagated by anti-intellectual ideologists who do not now and never had a taste for truth. The only reason this canard keeps popping up is that journalism is a label that leans toward stupidity. It will go away when journalists quit reporting it.
Software manufacturers have foisted the impression on the public that software is intellectual property, but there are so many differences between the paradigms of intellectual property and software that only the naive could ever take such claims seriously.
When Calvin Coolidge said "The business of America is business," he and very few if any others knew just how deep this sentiment would sink into the American consciousness. Now it seems apparent that the way business thinks has muscled every other kind of thought process out of the American mind. The unfortunate result is that if no business solution exists to an American ailment, it festers into an incurable American disease.
Killer Country
by John Kozy (liberal, November 10, 2009)Oh, the wailing, weeping, and gnashing of teeth over last week's killings at Fort Hood!—a tragic instance of what Americans call an "isolated" event that happens almost daily. America is a killing field! It has been for a very long time. Historically, the oppressed have killed their oppressors. In America the oppressed kill each other. American politicians claim that America is the free-world's leader. But what other country would want to follow America down this road? (Perhaps the stupid British from whom we acquired the roots of this vulture—oops!, culture.) It is noteworthy that since 1789, approximately 70 nations have become democratic, but not a single one has copied the American model. Whom are we leading where? Perhaps only ourselves to perdition.
If you are thinking about filing a class action suit, find an attorney who understands that if s/he is unable to negotiate a substantial award for each member of the settlement class, that you will insist that the suit be taken to trial; otherwise, you are merely involving yourself in a lawyerly boondoggle in which the lawyers will use your misery to enrich themselves. If your lawyer is not going to get you and your colleagues substantial awards, at least make sure that s/he does not get any either.
As an elderly, former university professor, I am deeply anguished whenever I come across shameful academic writing. Such writing not only exposes the inability of the writer but it exhibits the extent of decline in American university teaching and is a symptom of a decadent civilization. Institutions that employ these writers have abandoned the classical educational ideals of truth, goodness, and beauty for belief, greed, and exploitation. And not only Americans but the whole world is paying a horrid price for it.
Excellent journalism was never a priority of Joseph Pulitzer's, and the prizes reflect it. So does the mainstream press which is yellower than ever in both the conventional journalistic sense and the colloquial sense of cowardly. Even worse, however, are the Nobels. They are almost always given to those committed to Western civilization and Capitalism. So now Obama has gotten the prize. Why was it awarded to him? Because he is a protector of the economic status quo and a hegemonist—a true child of a decadent civilization. The deadly arms manufacturer would be highly pleased.
Mortgage Anyone?
by John Kozy (liberal, September 30, 2009)Why are the standard terms for mortgages 15 and 30 years? Could it be because downturns in the American economy have occurred on an average of once every 14.5 years? When a buyer defaults on a loan after paying on it for 14 years, the lender gets the house for free, sells it again, and nets a small fortune or an investment of zero. Wouldn't you like to find a way of doing that?
Everywhere Arms Races
by John Kozy (liberal, September 12, 2009)Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and President Obama claim that both North Korea and Iran must be prevented from developing nuclear capabilities to prevent arms races in North East Asia and the Near East. But the United States of America began the international nuclear arms race more than sixty years ago and has never taken the task of eliminating nuclear weapons seriously. So yes, as ye sow, so shall ye reap! Why should anyone expect otherwise.
Razing California
by Ben Samuel (liberal, September 10, 2009)Description of what is troubling our largest state, and how it must be resolved
The political chart put out by the Republican Liberty Caucus seems to be more detailed and rational than others I have seen.
Libertarians as a party don't win elections because they limit their diversity, which in turn limits their numbers. That needs to change.
The Tract Pro Bono explains the nature and causes of economic depressions. It describes what are the necessary conditions for the occurrence of a crash and an economic depression. It proposes a plausible alternative solution. it shows immediate dangers we are facing
America pledges millions to rebuild foreign countries while its own infrastructure is crumbling.
Bernanke was the only cause, I proved, of the Great Recession and probably acted on purpose. He had the knowledge (Bernanke is a renown specialist of The Great Depression he even wrote a book on the subject: Essays on the Great Depression.), the means, motive (The gigantic power he has received thanks to The Great Recession.), and opportunity.
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