Speakers' Corner

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Unbeknownst to the conservative Congressman, Dr. Ron Paul (Bagger - TX) inserted an arcane addendum that required replacing all elected Republicans (federal, state and local) with the results of some experiments he had been conducting in his suburban Galveston basement.
 The depths to which our "4th Estate" has sunk is the result of a deliberate plan to obscure the differences between contrived drama and reality and it will be very difficult to turn around now that several generations...
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Individual consequences of government debt limit As the U.S. comes closer its $14.294 trillion debt ceiling, lawmakers faces a vote on boosting the debt limit. Congressional Republicans, however, are promising to oppose the increase unless it comes with guarantees of...
Considering the Tea Party's candidates and leader's (deliberate?) misconceptions about our founding fathers and what they truly believed, I am writing this in the hopes that some of them may read this. Today, we are presented such distortions about everything...
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, July 5, 2011
I'm not a great fan of Cynthia Boaz, but I'll give her fair due. She's written a cracking piece which you can see on TruthOut.org's website, entiled "14 Propaganda Techniques that Fox 'News' Uses to Brainwash Americans." It's a pretty...
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DESPITE the treasonous and degenerate Republican efforts to stop us.. DESPITE the RACISTS (whether they care to admit it or not)... DESPITE them ALL, we WILL PREVAIL. "peacekitten" and I (lovers, partners) sent this out on election day 2008.. and...
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, July 1, 2011

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