Confronting the Spin on the Fort Hood MassacreSource: The New Media Journal Headline News
It is sad and disturbing commentary on the state of American culture when the facts surrounding an event, such as the slaughter that took place at Fort Hood, can not only be manipulated to facilitate a political ideology but blatantly ignored in the pursuit of a political agenda.
Pretending to Speak for an Entire CultureSource: The New Media Journal Headline News
One of the things that brings me to the boiling point is when I hear elected officials tell me what "Americans want" or what "Americans think." To believe that today's federally elected politicians understand – or care – what their constituents want, never mind Amer …

When I was growing up I grew up in a Teamster family. My dad was a Teamster and his father (my namesake) was a founding member of Local 406 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. My uncles were members of the UAW.
It's Time to Pay Close Attention to the PoliticiansSource: The New Media Journal Headline News
I have long said that we, the citizens of the United States, must demand good government over politics from our elected officials. The need for this demand has grown exponentially over the past four decades.

Though pundits on TV and radio regard politics as entertainment, many Americans now are looking for something more: an understanding of the two-party system that appeals to groups of citizens for support, then abandons their causes after the elections.
Radicals Wrote Failed StimulusSource: IBD
If the stimulus isn't working, perhaps it's because it was largely written by a collection of leftist interest groups called the Apollo Alliance that counts among its directors a co-founder of the Weather Underground.
Clearly, the stimulus bill that no congressman read is not wo …

For the purposes of this little exercise, state, local and federal government departments, agencies and programs apply. If the government runs it, and it serves a purpose to the people in some way, it's "socialist."
Why I Hate Barack Obama! Pastor Steven Anderson Sermon Source: Crooks and Liars
ANDERSON: You are going to tell me that I'm supposed to pray for the socialist devil, murderer, infanticide who wants to see young children and he wants to see babies killed through abortion and partial-birth (INAUDIBLE) everything? You are going to tell me I am supposed to pray …
Winston Churchill was a Bolshevik | SalonSource: Salon.com
Yet by the standards of the present moment, as these same conservatives mobilize against health care reform to "stop socialism," that same great man was actually a raving Bolshevik.

A single payer option is just that... an option. No one has ever said that the government was going to nationalize, or "take over" all of the hospitals and clinics, nor has anyone said that the government will be a sole choice as an insurance plan.

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Well, it's about damn time: Republicans Rebranding DemocratsSource: Guardian Unlimited
excerpt: ""A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an extraordinary special session next week, it will approve a resolution rebranding Democrats as the "Democrat Socialist Party.""
Communist/Socialists are Democrat Coalition of TodaySource: leftcoastrebel.com
Years ago I decided to try an experiment on the net. I perused several communist/socialist websites to see how closely they resembled today's Democrat party and/or the Left that controls academia, and the media.

Every story needs a villain, but not as much as both political parties need their boogeymen. In this era of endless negative politics, both parties love to vilify their enemies, and when legitimate enemies do not exist, they invent them. They NEED enemies.