Poverty in America

Barack Obama, the Great Deceiver

Those times of heady promise are now a cruel memory. Again and again, Obama has shown his true colors. It isn’t simply that Obama lied. Politicians lie.

Colonized by Corporations by Chris Hedges « Dandelion Salad

In Robert E. Gamer’s book “The Developing Nations” is a chapter called “Why Men Do Not Revolt.” In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent their fury on a political puppet, s …

150 Achievements Of Liberalism That Conservatives Seek To Destroy | Addicting Info

According to virtually any conservative today, the government has been just one big liberal establishment. The current extremists that own and operate the GOP are hell bent on destroying anything and everything that even has a hint of liberalism or progressivism in it, even if  …

Great Depression Chocolate Pie

This recipe first appeared to me in my grandmother's cookbook, and had been written there for many years before me. She had met a woman at church who was visiting, (one who "talked funny, like one of those Europeans"), and the lady had shared this recipe with her circa 1932, rur …

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Can A Satellite Read Your Thoughts? - The Robert C. Beck Story 1978

In 1978, Robert C. Beck released an article in relation to the brain and the ability to entrain it to ELF radio waves.  I have read portions of this story in other articles and never paid much attention to it.  My main issue was that in every interpretation of it there …

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A Lesson for the 1%ers From a Little Girl at the Playground

(I'll admit I had to play with the headline a little in an attempt the bring this story to the people that most need to read it.) By Kara Gebhart Uhl  My husband Andy had an early softball game tonight so the kids and I met him there to cheer him on. And by cheer him on I  …

Child Sex Trial: Nine Men Guilty of Raping, Grooming and Passing Around Young Girls For Sex After Plying Them with Vodka and Drugs

Yesterday nine men, all but one originally from Pakistan, were facing lengthy jail terms after being convicted of a string of offences, ranging from rape to sex trafficking.  Over the next two years, dozens of white teenagers were abused by older men in the gang, The lea …

Jan Brewer signs Arizona ban on Planned Parenthood funding, calling it a 'common-sense law.'

On Friday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law The Whole Woman’s Health Funding Priority Act, which bans Planned Parenthood and similar groups that offer abortions to women from receiving state funding. “This is a common-sense law that tightens existing stat …

Holding Birth Control Hostage | Mother Jones

Doctors still require women to submit to cancer screenings and pelvic exams to get birth control pills. Scientists say that shouldn't happen.

Unstable ground: The fine line between self-defense and murder - CNN.com

 people have no duty to retreat before using deadly force to protect themselves anywhere they have the legal right to be. Arizona and Florida are not alone in enacting these laws. Thirty-one other states also have laws that expand the use of deadly force beyond the home. Peo …