It’s bad enough when so-called economists serve up the same Keynesian nonsense that has led us down the current cul-de-sac in the first place. At least those people have some incidental knowledge, however deeply flawed, of basic economic concepts. It’s far worse when political pundits, whose understanding of economics typically comes from Treasury Department talking points, hold forth as if they really know what is going on. FULL ARTICLE

Back in the 1920s, Mencken was influencing a generation of educated people. He was a journalist, satirist and social critic, a cynic and free thinker, known as either the “Sage of Baltimore” or the “Bad Boy of Baltimore.” As well known and influential as he was in the 1920s, Mencken is sadly unfamiliar to many educated people today. And even though he passed in 1956, Mencken knew where America was headed long before today. Writing in the Baltimore Sun back in 1937, Mencken believed that, by now, “the incurable idiots may conceivably constitute an absolute majority of the population.” FULL ARTICLE

Do you recall who said, “Well, all I know is what I read in the newspapers”?

Well, Bunkie, it was Will Rogers, as quoted in The New York Times, September 30, 1923 (according to sources).

What became Rogers’ trademark quip has become famous, probably because of its simplicity and because millions of Americans could say the same, particularly in the 20th century before television news — as a poor journalistic cousin — became a main source of news and information. Continue reading →

Is there anyone left out there who hasn’t been sucked into TV Land – British (or American) style – who can still attest to life devoid of the culturally (politically) requisite 3.75 hours of daily TV watching, or 26.25 hours per week? It’s worth noting that Deborah Orr tells us within her below article, published in today’s Independent newspaper, that these figures only include broadcast television, not watching DVDs, films in cinemas, YouTube or other internet-broadcast content. FULL ARTICLE

Good news everybody. I have it from an indisputable source, Rush Limbaugh, that the Iraqi War has ended and that we have won. Rush didn’t say how he knew, just that it was over and we won. He also didn’t say what it is that we have won – that is to say what did we win by winning the war. He told me and millions of others just a couple of days ago on his radio show that it was over and we had won.

Maybe I can help him add up the score. Continue reading →

Writes “Truth”

I have had the best sleep for over three months. My house is paid off, my kids are healthy, I am unable to go back to work due to medical conditions. I have been watching all the propaganda on T.V and laugh.

I traveled all over the world (as a U.S Marine) and enjoyed the peaceful travels absorbing foreign cultures, people and history. I am ashamed that the media elites (FCC controlled) lie to everyone. Continue reading →

If you want to really know what’s going on in Gaza, you cannot rely on the US Media, which, along with the rest of the world’s media, have been barred from the battle zone by the Israeli government.

The only international reporters in Gaza now who can show what is actually happening there are the ones from Al Jazeera. Continue reading →

Life in Occupied Gaza. No end of conflict is in sight. Mass slaughter continues unabated. World leaders are silent on halting it. Blame the victims. Back aggression, but people globally say otherwise: In solidarity, we’re all Gazans. We’re all Palestinians. FULL ARTICLE

What has Israel won exactly, aside from the haunting images of Palestinian youngsters in UN schools, homes and hospitals, mutilated, some silent and others screaming? This is no victory, but a brief illusion of one. As for the long-term repercussions, that is a whole new story. Israeli bombs over Lebanon in 1982 gave rise to Hezbollah, and its war of 2006 turned a small, resisting militant movement into a major powerbroker that will certainly help shape the future of Lebanon. Israel is now doing the same in Gaza. A victory, indeed.  FULL ARTICLE

The New York Times, that oh-so-respected rag that never bothered to question President George Bush’s headlong rush to war, and that apparently saw no discrepancy between what the U.N. weapons inspectors were finding in Iraq (nothing), and what Mr. Bush said was there (enough chemical weapons to threaten the existence of the planet), has once again pontificated about world events. Let us look at one short sentence from its editorial page of January 6 of this year FULL ARTICLE