Category Archives: america

The Ugliness of Free Enterprise

May 21, 2013 – 11:01 pm

Senator Elizabeth Warren has been lauded for suggesting that the interest on student loans be lowered to subsidized America’s Future, however no one is proposing free education since this country prefers free enterprise. The entire yearly debt of college owns comes to $50 billion dollars. The same cost of running the wars in Afghanistan. So […]

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Guns And Kids

May 18, 2013 – 6:58 pm

Back in 2006 Bryan Le Bouef, a rodeo painter from Lousiana, emailed this letter. Mom sent me a photo depicting my brothers and me when we had yet to face the most troubling parts of life. I was much younger than the others. I believe that I had just been introduced to hard drugs the […]

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A Wanted Man

May 4, 2013 – 5:49 pm

George W. Bush cancelled a planned trip to address the United Israel Appeal in Switzerland in response to requests for his arrest on charges of torture. Amnesty International’s Secretary General stated, “To date, we’ve seen a handful of military investigations into detentions and interrogations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo. But none of these has had […]

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Pink Equal Signs

April 1, 2013 – 7:13 pm

Millions of facebook users have changed their profile photo to a pink equal sign to show their support for gay/lesbian/whatever marriage equality. The GOP and Supreme Court have refused to accept that their version of America no longer is accepted by the majority. One day and one day soon they will have to accede to […]

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A Curse On The Pharoahs

March 6, 2013 – 11:31 am

Yesterday the US government honored a 2011 commitment to Egypt democracy by doled out $190 million of a $1 billion pledge. Newly appointed Secretary of State John Kerry warned the Morsi government must adhere to IMF monetary demands and expected improvements on protecting the rights of women and religious minorities. His departure from Cairo was […]

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