The front page of the Miami Herald yesterday featured a big picture of President Obama. Right beside him were Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, with Mitt Romney earning a small portrait below. The title of the article under the Republican candidates was “Florida in view as GOP bids rev up.” Here is the lede of the …
I walked around campus today and handed out a piece of paper titled: Why YOU Should Vote in the 2011 Republican Primary It explains why Ron Paul is the only honest candidate for President. Two guys on campus, Milo and Brandon, knew exactly what I was talking about. I gave them the rest of my flyers. …
Too often left out of the conversation on why America has reached the debt ceiling in the first place is the fact that the government has been forking over trillions (thousands of billions) to the wealthiest people and corporations in the country: Billions in subsidies for Exxon Mobil, Monsanto, and GE. Billions “missing”(embezzled) in Iraq. …
This Guardian headline begins to answer the question – “Looting ‘fuelled by social exclusion: Young looters from poor estates have nothing to lose and no reason to obey social norms, say experts.” My initial reaction to the riots is a simpler version of the same answer – Food and Money. People with reasonable amounts of …
“I am not going to do a show where I have to pretend most of the politicians in Washington are honorable gentlemen.” In the following video Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, explains why he just left MSNBC to return to his internet show after being offered more money and a smaller role. To …
The Mayan Calendar We’ve all heard so much about it – 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar. But what does it mean? The end of the world? Daniel Pinchbeck, in his book 2012 – The Return of Quetzlcoatl described this time period as a return of consciousness. In the following video, Ian Xel Lunsgold elaborates at …