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  • The Big Bailout...Ha!

    There is no need for a bailout of the bank when we can bail them out through tax payer spending...heres how: America has fought hard to become an independent nation and a leader in innovation, so how can we fix our current economic downtrend efficiently? Some seem to think that throwing money at the corporations who failed us is the answer…we all ...
    Posted to Trailhead by Mejamz on September 29, 2008

  • Great Review of Some Important Books . . .

    . . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008

  • Hitch, The Brits Started This Mess, Along With Reagan

    Christopher Hitchens engages in breathtaking and broad stroke, decades long perspective in cataloguing the burning of world war through the 20th Century, from the beginnings of World War One through World War Two through to the conclusion of the Cold War, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Yet he dates this Iraqi Twin War Conflict only to 2003? ...
    Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard1 on March 25, 2008

  • Dem Popular Vote: Wow . . . it's real close!

    7,374,222 7,374,222 So, I was complaining about the lack of data on total vote counts from yesterday's primaries. Using CNN's up to date numbers, I did it myself. Note that not all precincts are in, but generally states have reported 90+ percent (most in the high 90s). So, as of now, where we are in Feb. 5 caucus goer and voter ...
    Posted to Trailhead by northlander on February 6, 2008

  • Who "made" Fox News & Carl Cameron? News Flash: Not Rupert!

    Never has big money been so stupid in the History of the World. I first noticed ''the Rupert Effect'' when I saw a greatly admired film, highly critical of modern Nation State governance in an abstract, predictive, and prescient way, titled, ''Brazil'' directed by British filmmaking genius, Terry Gilliam. The first time I saw the film, I enjoyed ...
    Posted to Press Box by MichaelBernard1 on January 31, 2008

  • A tug of war

    The interplay between the media, voters, states, and politicians is just that: a four-way tug of war. Good story. We linked up to it on our Hypertext Bazaar - 01.29.08. All the best! timothy j. carrollmemeticians.com
    Posted to Chatterbox by Timothy J on January 29, 2008

  • Shrill?

    Why, beyond your blanket assertion, is Richardson's statement shrill? See this is how we get stuck with morons like George Bush: the press has their CW and their narratives and those who stray from them are deemed unserious or shrill or losers or whatever. And that gets repeated and repeated until it filters down from those who pay attention to ...
    Posted to Trailhead by jarobiso on December 28, 2007