America

Bank of China Credit Card: America's Love/Hate Relationship with Borrowing and Spending

10.22.2010

America’s economy is based on consumerism: borrowing and spending. But excessive spending is what got us into this mess (right?) so no wonder we’re not borrowing and spending in the private sector the way we were before.

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Why the GOP is Scared of their Tea Party Frankenstein

09.17.2010

After running on anti-incumbent rhetoric for so long now, the GOP feels the inevitable backlash as one of their own loses the Senate primary to an ultra-conservative Tea Party candidate. Surprised? I’m not.

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Getting Fired for Medical Marijuana Use: Why Should Employers Drug Test At All?

09.15.2010

Employers fire employees for failing drug tests, despite having medical marijuana prescriptions from their doctors. Why do we even drug test workers in the first place?

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Deciding if the GOP's Conservative Movement is Right for You

04.07.2010

Now that Virginia’s Republican Gov. Robert McDonnell has decided to celebrate all things Confederate (because, as well all know, nothing screams “the good ole days” quite like slavery and Civil War), it’s time to take a good look at the GOP political party and decide if it’s for you. Ta-Nehisi Coates breaks it down: “If [...]

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Waterboarding is the New Spanking

02.08.2010

U.S. soldier Joshua Tabor waterboarded his own 4-year-old daughter because she couldn’t recite the alphabet. Waterboarding, you might remember, was one of the staple techniques of the Bush/Cheney “enhanced interrogation” methods also known as torture.  It involves the simulated drowning of a victim by elevating one’s legs and then pouring water over her rag-covered face, [...]

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This is Still a Holy War

01.07.2010

Segregating people of certain countries to go through pat-downs or walk through full-body scanners, forcing everyone to remain in their seats during the last hour of certain flights, and disallowing passengers from accessing their carry-on baggage during certain times of the flight will do nothing to change the fact that so many people consider this [...]

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Duh: 79% of Americans Fear Another Terrorist Attack

12.29.2009

And this is newsworthy? I’m sorry, but why should I are what 79% of respondents in some telephone poll think?  What makes their opinions worthy of my time or energy or anything whatsoever?  On what information are they basing this belief that there will be another terrorist attack on America in the next year? Oh [...]

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Ft. Hood Tragedy Polarizes Nation Immediately

11.10.2009

Major Nidal Hasan sure got both sides spewing their rhetoric. One side uses the tragedy as an excuse to condemn all of Islam and its followers and to justify the wars in the Middle East.  The other side condemns those who condemn Islam. As the picture becomes clearer about Hasan and his extremist views, those [...]

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Get Out Of The Desert! Cont'd

11.05.2009

I know this is playing to emotions and there are difficult, real-world issues at stake here, but for the same party that touts family values and the traditional nuclear family to also want to just keep sending moms and dad overseas to fight for a pointless war for nearly a decade just seems so very [...]

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Get Out Of The Desert!

11.05.2009

As if we needed any more American deaths to make this war real to those of us back home who have the luxury of thinking about the ideal of spreading democracy and freedom across the planet.  Well, here we have it. 12 American soldiers.  Dead.  On American soil. This is what happens to the human [...]

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