Written by Michael Chase on 11 August 2010
As an independent writer (and by independent I mean broke), I am not party to such transactions. On this little news show we call the Pigeon Post, I am not constrained by the courtesies of the beltway. Thus am I able to call them like I see them. And so I give you an interview with the GOP/Tea Party/Conservative Movement. This will, unfortunately, be a rather one-sided argument; the party being interviewed has not been given to a wide variety of answers recently. In fact, in all of my research, I have found that all it takes is ten easy to remember answers define the party in question's philosophy and platform [Read the rest of this article...]
Written by Todd Curl on 09 July 2010
Engaging in baby talk with one another, and ignoring historical realities will not save us from what will be a continued degradation of our security, prosperity, humanity and dignity, promoting catastrophic damage to the earth and its inhabitants all in the name of Corporatism. We are all benign to the fact that our political system has drifted far to what was once considered the right. There is no more left in the traditional sense. There is no more right as we define it. There is a one party system that is gaining more and more control as we continue to divide ourselves. The creatures that inhabit our political system -- the politicians -- are just as blind as the rest of us as they allow themselves to do the bidding of the [Read the rest of this article...]
Written by B.T. Balls on 11 June 2010
The cleanup costs unfairly imposed on BP will simply be passed on to consumers when they fill up their hideous economy cars at the pump. What’s the answer, you ask? It would make pure economic sense to use taxpayer money for the entire cleanup, and also for the necessary public relations blitz to restore BP’s unfairly soiled image. [Read the rest of this article...]