Black Friday Means Tax Free Guns In South Carolina
For the second year in a row, in what is more a political statement than anything else, gun buyers in South Carolina will pay no sales tax this week-end. The so called “2ND Amendment sales tax holiday” is from Friday until midnight today. There will be no state sales tax on hand guns, rifles and […]
The Family: Fundamentalists Preaching A Gospel Of American Empire
In his new book, The Family, journalist Jeff Sharlet takes us inside Christian fundamentalism’s most elite, disturbing and secretive organization. The Family is fundamentalism’s avant-garde, on a mission to wage a spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the “new chosen”, Senators, Congressmen, Generals and foreign dictators […]
The Scandal Of Hunger In America
Today, about 49 million Americans experience what the US government refers to as “food insecurity with hunger”. It is Thanksgiving, a perfect time to reflect on hunger. Hunger is a miserable feeling and a powerful word that rightly produces anger and outrage. Today’s hunger and poverty crisis is similar, in scope, to the one of […]
Obama: Not Enough “Hope & Change” On Climate Change
Today, the White House announced that President Obama will attend the UN sponsored climate conference in Copenhagen. The US President is scheduled to deliver a speech in Copenhagen on December 9, on his way to Oslo, Norway, where he will receive the Nobel Peace prize on December 10. In the last few weeks, President Obama […]
UN: Greenhouse Gases Reach Record Levels
According to the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in a report released on November 23, 2009, the levels of all greenhouse gases continue to increase exponentially. In 2008, the global concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide, which are the main long-lived greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, reached the highest levels […]
