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Black Friday Means Tax Free Guns In South Carolina

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 […]

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The New Republican Contract on America Released

The final stroke in the Republican master plan to retake congress has just been released. It involves a purity list of 10 resolutions that candidates pledge to fulfill, in a mirror of the Contract on America in 1994.

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The Scandal Of Hunger In America

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 […]

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Conservative Counter-Revolution and the Coming Violence

Since the introduction of Sarah Palin into the 2008 election, the right wing has been on the warpath. The rhetoric and volume of their message has been taken to increasingly fanatical extremes in an attempt to derail the movement for change and reform in America. This has already resulted in many deaths, and the conflict is becoming more open with every passing day.

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Interview of Anti-Bushman: Copycat of the World’s Most Famous Panhandler

Interview with anti-Bushman, a copycat of the world’s most famous panhandler in the Fishermans Wharf district of San Francisco, California.

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