Michael Collins I just read the presidents big speech tonight and it struck me.  There were some key lines left out of the speech.  You may have had the same response.  For the sake of clarity and fairness, I've tried to reconstruct the missing lines.  I'm sure that the omissions were just an accident.  That Robert Gibbs may be up to his old tricks again.  My insertions are in italics, following the preside ...

On August 14, I published “Chief Judge of 9th Circuit: ‘1984 is here,’ especially for poor”,  two days after a ruling of the 9th Circuit Court, which essentially legalized warrantless wiretaps on cars – even if it’s in a person’s driveway (Well, that is, unless that person lives in a gated community).  Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote an eloquent and controversial dissent, filled with references to Big Broth ...

  Readers: Picture of David Bing, mayor of Detroit, Robert Bobb, Financial manager and employee of Eli Broad along with a representative from a major textbook company seeking contracts to be paid for by taxpayers. The following is from members of the Detroit Federation of Teachers.  They have been fighting for some time now the policies of Race to the Top and Robert Bobb, the Financial Manager for the city ...

The fight is incredible and it is over plastic bags in the stores-- namely grocery stores.  I do not mind bringing reusable bags to the grocery store.  Even though  plastic bags are recyclable, a huge number of them end up in our oceans and the results are not nice.  If you are really interested, there are a variety of NPR programs re the health of our oceans that discuss plastic.  Suffice it to say, it wil ...

By Numerian posted by Michael Collins Two score and seven years ago the nation’s dispossessed thronged the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King define the struggle for African-American civil rights.(Image) Today it was the turn of the nation’s disenfranchised to gather at the same place, lamenting their lost supremacy as a superior race, and longing for a prophet to lead them back to the mountain top ...

o while the neo-con mind control machine gears up the true-believers in the Tea Party for a hate fest at Ground Zero-where they will rail and rant against Islam and no doubt attempt in their comical, over-the-top way to call for revolution and paint Obama as a space alien overlord-the money keeps on coming in ...

The "New Yorker" magazine is probably the most independent, important mainstream media source in our country.  I first heard of this article on NPR, when they interviewed the author.  I doubt that you will be able to finish reading this, but the Koch brothers and their hands in American politics must be known.  Personally, between the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdock coupled with the recent Supreme Court de ...

By Joaquin posted by Michael Collins So, you cut back on your lifestyle; performed a so un-Greek personal austerity reset but your credit card balance is still creeping up; or perhaps you are slowly burning through your savings; or you are at the end of the line; abandon ship. Whatever, you have a lot of company out there. (Image) Why is it so hard to make ends meet these days? The days of living high on th ...

The Islamic Community Center and Terrorism Symbols: America’s Quest for Hypocritical Perfection By: Solomon Comissiong A substantial number of Americans seem to savor opportunities that will expose them for the barbaric hypocrites they are. As if it were simply not good enough to be mindless sheep non-critically responding to the drumbeat of the historically anti-democratic corporate media; they eagerly str ...

According to a viewpoint found in InsideHigher Ed, an online newsletter, entitled Missing the Point, by  Anthony P. Carnevale , Michelle Melton and Laura Meyer the for-profit college industry is taking fire from all directions because a substantial number of for-profit colleges offer aggressively marketed programs of little value in the job market, leaving individuals unable to repay their debts and saddlin ...