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  • GM’s Free Ride
    24 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    A free ride on your dime, that is. Let us dispense with all talk of welfare cheats and lazy, good for nothings that don’t want to work until we deal with the king of welfare cheats, the king of free rides, and the king of government handout checks.
    Under the terms of the government sponsored bankruptcy deal, GM has been able to void worker contracts for wages and benefits, shed itself of the health insurance concerns, permanently eliminated 21,000 American jobs and (…)

  • Coming Soon, to a Life Near You
    23 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    The other day I went with my son to the metal salvage yard. We had been cleaning up the shop and had two or three engine blocks plus the usual amalgamation of sheet metal. We pulled into the yard to wait in line for the weigh-in scale and in front of us was a large construction truck loaded down with scaffolding. Scaffolding on its way to the crusher and then to be melted down because that construction company saw no future need in owning scaffolding as a tool of its (…)

  • Nano
    23 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) Program will develop and demonstrate an extremely small (less than 7.5 cm), ultra-lightweight (less than 10 grams) air vehicle system with the potential to perform indoor and outdoor military missions. The program will explore novel, bio-inspired, conventional and unconventional configurations to provide the warfighter with unprecedented capability for urban mission operations.
    28 grams to an ounce, right?
    In these United States, in this day and age, the (…)

  • Carla Bruni performs at Nelson Mandela birthday concert
    21 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Carla Bruni may be the First Lady of France, but she had no chance of becoming the “first diva” at an exuberant Nelson Mandela 91st birthday concert in New York. Bruni’s first public performance since marrying Nicolas Sarkozy, who was in the audience, put her on stage at Radio City Music Hall along with Gloria Gaynor, Aretha Franklin, Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, L’il Kim and Cyndi Lauper, plus the male acts will.i.am, Wyclef Jean, Josh Groban, Jesse McCartney and Stevie Wonder.
    Gaynor (…)

  • Will Richard B. Cheney & Other ever be brught to Justice?
    20 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No one is above the law.
    But, recent news reports indicate that former Vice President Richard B. Cheney created a secret CIA assassination program and then hid it from Congress, the public and the Justice Department.
    This has to be the last straw.
    This is the latest in a series of news reports indicating that the Vice President and other high-ranking members of the Bush Cabal conspired to break our laws and then cover it up.
    From Watergate to Iran Contra, special prosecutors have (…)

  • RED INK!
    19 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://benamarine.blogspot.com/2009...
    China invented printing.

  • The Ticking Clock
    15 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    The clock ticks just the same each second as the hands point to the different hours. Day, night, morning, evening, and still the clock just ticks away the seconds. Listening to the ticking obscures the facts that things are changing quickly and that many of us have no idea what time it is.
    Right wing pundits make veiled remarks and some step out into the sunlight and call for insurrection and revolution. It should be remembered that in the cauldron of human existence (…)

  • A New Beginning
    13 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    Political parties, like people, have a life span, but unlike people they are driven by their relevance. Political parties which are no longer relevant cease to exist.
    The Republican Party is a perfect example; its central core values of low taxes, small government and less regulation have been proven false and the Republicans have been exposed for what they are, the party of the rich, the party of less taxes for the rich, and the party of less opportunity for the poor. (…)

  • Chinese Perceptions of U.S. Decline and Power
    12 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Bonnie S. Glaser, Lyle Morris
    For the past few years, the Western world has been abuzz with talk of China’s rise. Most statesmen, pundits and academics have concluded that China’s rise is inevitable, but as of yet there has been no consensus on the implications of China’s rise for the rest of the world. While Westerners debate issues like whether and how China can be “molded” into becoming a responsible stakeholder in the international system, the Chinese have been quietly conducting a (…)

  • The Coup in Honduras: A Teachable Moment for Obama?
    12 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “I bewail the consequences of those furious passions which seem to belong to man.” - Chief Justice John Marshall
    A surreal event took place on July 7, 2009, at the National Press Club, (NPC), in Washington, D.C. Some of the representatives of the “de facto” regime in Honduras, repeatedly denied, in differing fashions, that President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in a military coup d’etat on June 28, 2009. Not long after the press conference began, however, three gutsy protesters, holding (…)