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The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out. Conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. Of all the services that the government performs, which ones are considered “essential”? Which ones stay operating even during a shutdown? Here’s an example of one, and in fact, it’s a service that is active only during a shutdown. What if they […]
Welcome to the First Virtual Church of Our Lord and Savior, Steve Jobs. As you enter the sanctuary, please do not make eye contact with anyone. Keep your eyes focused on the screen of the mobile device of your choice. We are relevant and practice diversity here, which is easy since no one will even […]
It is the fearful, unthinking herd instinct and the forces that exploit it that are making us such a polarized nation. You don’t have to have a sick religion or be a right wing Republican to be delusional. Twitter is dripping with delusionalism in politics and atheism. And just try to convince me that Oswald […]
“So JFK is going to be the new president. Right? Not so fast. Some goober decides to drive up to the Kennedy compound with dynamite in his car….” I have a long memory, so I’m still unwilling to bet that Mitt Romney will win or keep the Republican nomination, much less the election. I know […]
. We are gathering in DC in July – Come Add Your Voice to the Call to Protect Children from the Indian Child Welfare Act! Why? To protect the individual rights of Indian children and their families To ensure they maintain the right to a safe, supportive and stable family To request support for appropriate […]
Let’s face it.  It’s a part of life that one day we’re going to need a lawyer to help us out of a difficult situation. Most people go the route of asking friends and family for someone who can give them good legal advice and then there’s Chris Shella, a lawyer who now resides in Durham, North Carolina, […]
An article in yesterday’s National Journal – (http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/panetta-u-s-has-potential-military-plans-for-iran-20120308) by Yochi Dreazen, details comments made by Defense Secretary Panetta this week regarding both Syria, and the Iranian Nuclear issue. This article mentions The fact that the United States is weighing options and contingencies for conflict with Iran, and obviously this is no surprise. The “no evidence […]
“Traumatic grief, with its unanswered questions, its numbing shock, its horror, its ability to sear disturbing images into our souls that cannot be erased by sleep or by time–this process follows the same general path both for persons and groups.†When 12:30 struck, none of us fourth graders knew that our young president was being […]
Yum! Mushrooms. Who doesn’t like them (if cooked properly, even kids will eat them). The problem? Well, the Epicurious blog has an article on the joys of mushroom picking. It seems that a lot of yuppies in the Pacific Northwest have decided that the economic downswing is a good reason to take up this hobby. […]
Across America, children that have never been near a reservation – nor ever involved in tribal customs – are routinely removed from homes they love and placed with strangers – sometimes unsafe – chosen by tribal Gov’t.
The political hot air and exaggerations that goes around the Internet makes one wonder if everyone is going to have not their “ten minutes of fame” but their “Ten minutes of being demonized by the “Liberal/Mainstream-Media/DailyKos” partisans or the “Rush/Beck/Tea-party” zealots. However, the good news (and something that is rarely mentioned in the blast of […]
Photo: Party lights at Vancouver’s Pacific Central train and bus station mark the opening of the Winter Olympics The struggle to put a stop to the alleged persecution of bloggers by the City of Vancouver has now reached the White House. President Barack Obama has been asked to back bloggers when he sends Vice President […]
Just like good chess players, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles had to have known their opponents moves well ahead of their own. After releasing an incredibly damaging video last week which revealed extreme corruption in ACORN (not exactly shocking to anyone who has been following their maneuvering), ACORN representatives immediately went into smoke-screen mode, claiming […]
I started working on an article earlier this morning about Representative Charles Rangel and his attempt to throw the race card into the healthcare reform debate. In researching past quotes of Charles Rangel, I came across a quote of his which makes me want to immediately fly to New York or Washington DC, wherever this uneducated […]
Ahoy President Obama, I hear you want folks to send you any fishy emails they receive about your health care reform plan. So I’m enclosing the ones I’ve received. I’ve stripped senders’ addresses because I know you have no interest in collecting that kind of info, you just want to correct disinformation. Incidentally, not all […]
An article on the left-leaning website Truthout announced yesterday that a “new direction in the war on terror” may result from a case that occurred in the last year of the Bush Administration. Bryant Neal Vinas, an American-born suspected terrorist who was captured in Pakistan, was given “all the rights of American criminal suspects.” The results? […]
According to the Wall Street Journal, a recent report on cyberbullying suggests that, unlike other Internet scares, this one is well-founded, but it questions some of the regulatory efforts that are gathering steam. “The report, by the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a right-leaning Washington think tank that focuses on technology public policy, says that data […]
Whew. President Obama’s first 100 days are behind us. Give-him-a-break time is over. Snark on. For the last three months, going to the newsstand has been like being waylaid by someone’s doting mother armed with a load of photo albums. “This is Barack giving a speech,” gushes Mom. “Here he is giving another. And in […]
President Barack Obama today announced his choice of Jesus Christ, of Nazareth, as his first selection for the Supreme Court. Citing Christ’s judicial wisdom, impeccable knowledge of the law, and “empathy,” Obama proudly presented his nominee in the East Room of the White House. Rush Limbaugh wasted no time in seizing his microphone to condemn […]
You may be thinking that I am talking about the female servicemember, but I am actually talking about her counterpart, the military spouse (of which approximately 93 percent are still women).  According to the Rand Corporation, the research organization often used to conduct studies for the Department of Defense, although military spouses often have more […]
Ever since the Obama administration released memos describing the types of enhanced interrogation techniques used by the C.I.A. to extract information from top-level al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other terrorists, there has been a running debate on a myriad of questions, including: †Whether the memos should have been released; †Whether all or just […]
President Obama, in Turkey, speaking on the subject of the Armenian genocide stated, “Well, my views are on the record and I have not changed views.” Obama was mindful not to use the “G†word. Seems the tracks are laid out, not doubtful of collaborated, calculated interests, once again throwing integrity, U.S. moral standing, and […]
Voice of America Russian Service Journalists Blamed for Management’s Failures FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, March 18, 2009, San Francisco — My commentary on the poor state of U.S. public diplomacy and international broadcasting, Sexy Images from the Voice of America, has produced management backlash against the Voice of America Russian Service journalists. It […]
“Quality affordable healthcare for every American.” We once had it. Here’s a review of the journey that stole it. Gee, Wally, medical care has come so far since the early ’60’s. It was just too gosh-darn simple then. People got sick, went to the doctor, got a checkup. The doc harrumphed, made a diagnosis, wrote […]
MEMO TO: Richard Feducci, Overlord of Finance FROM: E Pluribus, Wondergod SUBJECT: Five Year International Finance Plan DATE: January 1, 2005 Happy New Year, Rich. Got some good news and some bad news. The bad news: We’re going to let the American economy crater. The good news: Everybody else’s will, too. The best news: By […]
On the heels of criticism that she was too blunt in assuring the Chinese the U.S. won’t make an issue of its human rights abuses, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Geneva, Switzerland, as a prelude to a meeting between both country’s presidents during the Group of 20 summit next […]
FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog Commentary by Ted Lipien, March 4, 2009, San Francisco Senator Richard Lugar is right about past mistakes that had crippled U.S. public diplomacy, but new actions by the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors also continue to silence America’s voice abroad Closed Down American Centers and Crippled Voice of America […]
In the strange but true category… Caleb Brundidge is an associate of Richard Cohen at the sexual reorientation organization, International Healing Foundation. His bio on the IHF website reads: Caleb Lee Brundidge was born in Florida and lived fifteen years in Atlanta , Georgia . He moved to New Jersey to pursue ministry and healing […]
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There’s a very serious scandal going on in Washington D.C., concerning the cover-up of the problem of lead in that city’s water. Apparently, someone decided to get rid of Chlorine to disinfect the water supply in Washington DC: About seven-and-a-half years ago, the District of Columbia’s water authority switched from chlorination to an alternative water-disinfection technology: […]
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