by Gwynne Dyer | Mar 3, 2011 | News
Why now? Why revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt this year rather than last year, or 10 years ago, or never? The protesters now taking to the street daily in Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Algeria are obviously inspired by the success of those revolutions, but what...
by Terry Allen | Mar 3, 2011 | News
Our “socialist” president is doling out welfare payments—unfortunately, to one of the world’s most profitable and socially corrupt industries: pharmaceuticals. Barack Obama’s administration is ponying up $1 billion to create a new branch...
by Our Readers | Mar 3, 2011 | News
Bank Robbers Not Glamorous Poor people do not rob banks, desperately unhappy people do not rob banks, criminals rob banks. I’ve been poor and viciously abused. How come I never robbed a bank? Only a person who feels safe where he lives could have written that...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 3, 2011 | News
Valley list servers last week came alive with notices of rallies on behalf of public service unions in Wisconsin, where Gov. Scott Walker was supporting legislation that would take collective bargaining rights away from those unions. From Western Mass. Jobs with...
by Tom Sturm | Mar 3, 2011 | News
Vermont state senator Virginia Lyons, who recently introduced a bill in that state’s Legislature to redefine personhood (and by extension citizenship) as only applying to human beings, has been continuing to gather support for her bill in both the general...
