Thomas Nast, “This Is a White Man’s Government,” Harper’s Weekly, 1868

⁹"And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived wantonly with her, shall bewail her and lament for her when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

    &n… Read full post »

Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion in 2011, he is also the 12th-richest person in the United States.^[3] He is the founder and 88% owner of Bloomberg L.P., a financial news and informati/… Read full post »

Newt’s War on the Poor in the 1990s

“We simply must abandon the welfare state and move to an opportunity society.”—Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the House of Representatives

“We have the best health care in the world-despite all the alarm that h… Read full post »

Romney Leads Gingrich In Money; Obama Bests Both

Taming the Tongue

¹ Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. ² We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say… Read full post »

¹ What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? ² You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do… Read full post »

Daniel 7

Daniel's Vision of the Four Beasts

Isaiah 28:14-18 (The Message)

 ^14-15Now listen to God's Message, you scoffers, you who rule this people in Jerusalem.  You say, "We've taken out good life insurance.
   We've hedged all our bets, covered all our bases. No disaster can… Read full post »

END OF A SYSTEM OF THINGS 

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 08-205 (2010), 558 U.S. ––––, 130 S.Ct. 876 (January 21, 2010), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court holding th/… Read full post »

Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right^[4][5][6][7] organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white… Read full post »

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum points to a television showing his campaign stop on live at the Daily Grind coffee shop in Sioux City, Iowa, Sunday

Simply put, policy in Washington is for sale.  And those who ignore this reality sacrifice much of the influenc/… Read full post »

Joint Session of the US Congress

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the national government with its citizens, the states, a/… Read full post »

Let America Be America Again

(America never was America to me.)

Section 1.

All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Section 7.

All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representativ… Read full post »

Clause 8: Oath or affirmation of US Constitution

Further information: Oath of office of the President of the United States

Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully exe… Read full post »

ON POINT RADIO

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/12/07/anti-semitism-and-wall-street

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2011

Anti-Semitism And Wall Street

Posted by Alex Kingsbury on Wednesday, December 7, 2011

When callers come on the show we never know exactly where they’re… Read full post »

EYE ON IOWA

Caucus for peace, some say

Dora Grote dora-grote@uiowa.edu writes in the Daily Iowan that President Obama is a shoo-in for the Democratic presidential nomination, but some locals say dissent is still needed.

A group of local peace activists met yesterday to encoura… Read full post »

Every stage of human civilization is accompanied by, and also influenced by, a consciousness.  When civilization changes slowly, the existing consciousness is likely to be in substantial accord with underlying material realities.  Today large segments of the American… Read full post »

Has U.S. learned less of Enron decade later? [BLAMING THE VICTIMS]

Enron’s bankruptcy on Dec. 2, 2001, revealed fraudulent illusion.  Investors swore they would not be profoundly deceived again.  But it was only the beginning of a decade when so much in the economy was… Read full post »

In the late 1990s, Newt Gingrich exposed the technological changes that were to spur the 21^st century.  His strategy was to make technological change itself the priority and push government aside.  “We do have an economic game plan,” said the House Republi… Read full post »

Why does Jeremiah Wright’s radical argument about AIDS as a United States Governmental bioweapons experiment gone bad resonate so well with his congregation as well as African Americans in general?  This has to do with an in history that the US government would rather ignor… Read full post »