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Replacing Our National Pride with a Victim Mentality

In the 1999 movie “Cider House Rules” based on John Irving’s 1985 novel of the same title, one of the leading characters, Homer, is asked to read a set of typewritten rules that are tacked to a post where the … Continue reading

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Are Small Businesses Going the Way of the Drive-In Movie?

We as a society have made a god of capitalism. We placed the capitalistic ideal ahead of people when we granted full legal rights of persons to corporations even though they can never be held accountable in the same way people are. We sold our collective soul as human beings when we allowed investors to operate hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, military operations, and even prisons where life and death decisions about human beings are made in an environment where human life has no “fair market” value. Continue reading

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Homeless in a Land of Milk and Honey

My goal for this post has always been to provide something useful that may help ordinary people in their struggle to get ahead in a world dominated and controlled by wealthy corporations.  But sometimes you just have to rant.  I … Continue reading

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Of the Persons, By the Persons, For the Persons

Once in a great while, mankind makes an amazing discovery that does as much for the peasants as for those in power. Until our generation, the last really big such innovation in the West was the invention of moveable type. … Continue reading

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Jury Duty: 3 Things You Are Not Supposed to Know

The proliferation of articles and lobbying efforts demanding “tort reform” and the rapidly expanding practice of denying citizens this basic constitutional right through binding arbitration show how big of a threat the corporate world and the insurance industry perceive this fundamental right to be. But in a democracy, jurors should have a right to know the secrets of how the sausage making process works. Continue reading

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After September 11, 2001 the President Knew What We Must Do: Go Shopping

I am more saddened than disgusted every time I pull up to an intersection, look up and see the Orwellian camera staring back at me. More troubling than the hypocrisy of the claims that these “telescreens” are there to save our … Continue reading

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Missouri Lawmakers Still on the Cutting Edge of Nineteenth Century Ideals

Back in the good ole’ days, divorce was among those special privileges reserved for rich people. Given enough money, anything is possible. It seems that some Missouri lawmakers would like to set everyone’s clock back a hundred years or so. … Continue reading

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Virtual Persons?

Did things really get so bad so fast? Or have we all been asleep while our status as human beings was being systematically destroyed? Our country gained a lot of ground in the last fifty years. We evolved from a … Continue reading

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