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A Republican Parable

Sarah Palin is a neophyte of the Far Right, eager to fight witches to prepare for becoming a Pentecostal-Pope one day, subject to the will of an Evangelical Holy See.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - Sarah Palin has been on the political stump now all of seven weeks, arriving as a gift from heaven with few of the attributes of a seasoned politician, but possessed of charms that, if you aren’t sure what they are, you’re still likely to believe she has ‘em.

I believe Palin was not John McCain‘s choice as a running-mate, but that of his keepers. The Republican Far Right (its Passive Voice), is composed of Evangelicals and followers dedicated to returning America to the past when religion was all powerful in keeping with its presumed Word of God.

Op Ed: Myth of Racism Denies, Defies Our Democracy

Old Tattered Tool for Economic Power Could Still Threaten Key Vote

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Millions of Americans wake up every day with the sure knowledge that their full Constitutional participation in the world’s greatest, most powerful nation is still denied to them. Don't fool yourself, racism is alive and well.

Centuries of research and solid scientific surveillance proves that mankind is universally the same both physically and mentally in every part and parcel of this space-floating globe.

Skin-color, culture, economic status, even intense religious faith-driven differences surely do exist; but the human equation regarding equality remains unchanged.

Op Ed: `Miracle of Markets` Myth
Manipulates U.S. Money System

“Greed is GOOD!” Proves Fatal Economic Nostrum

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Remember that messianic line: “Greed is good!”? It came from Ronald Reagan Himself, the “It’s Morning Again in America” actor, playing his now-notorious role as our American President.

Don’t forget the rest of the routine. He never did: “Government IS the problem. It NEVER does anything right.”

His other major pitch was “the miracle of markets” declaring “free trade”-markets “make automatic always-right decisions” on every issue imaginable.

John McCain echoes the Bush II neocon cabal in every respect, on the same now-collapsed economic mythology.

We are now learning --the very-hard, extremely costly, painfully-punishing way-- how wrong Reagan was on those mythical mind-messages.

Op Ed: Political Image, Fantastic Fortune,
Hangs on Lies, Distortion

Neocon “Win By ANY Means!” Demands Impeachment

(EUGENE, Ore.) - A fact is a fact IS a FACT!! -- Right?
By definition: “fact (as in "reality") n. an event known to have happened or something known to have existed.”

Op Ed: National Testing Kills
Local Education;
NCLB Represents
Fascistic System

Bush's No Child Left Behind movement destroys the “common school” experience, one of the strongest and far-seeing foundations for our democracy.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Built on the commonsense concept that the local residents would naturally know best what their children really needed for education, “local control” was part of the original, then radical, concept for republican democracy.

It is at least as important today as when it was first set up to provide the steady flow of workers and entrepreneurs demanded in our earlier days.

NCLB was the Bush neocon-cabal opening, their destructive first-shot to deny and defeat that long-standing basic principle in our American educational system.

Op Ed: Myths, Fantasies
Destroying Nation
No Longer `Sustainable`

Economic Empire-Building AGAIN Threatens World

(EUGENE, Ore.) - MONEY, via political and policy support for huge and extremely costly militaristics demanded for “America as World Policeman”, drives that neocon fantasy --now proven a farce and futile wherever applied in the past forty years.

Op Ed: Force of Facts
Destroys Neo-con
Myths and Fallacies

40 Years of Disastrous Political “WIN by ANY Means"

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Driven by their inscrutable and immovable reliance on what they conceive as “the direct Word of God”, the nation’s “neo-conservative” remnant has amassed the world’s worst record of UN-realistic action on massive problems caused by those very policies.

Far Right-inclined religious partisans, “captured” in recent years, have only added their misplaced influence to that already-determined immutable characteristic for this hard-scrabble radical remnant.

This bedraggled sorry remnant is now identified by continuing faith in force-applied anywhere in the world, for any purpose, in pursuit of their proven-perverted perception of honest and open U.S. “strategic interests.”

Presidential Race `08 Panders to Prejudices

Truth-in-Politics just isn't what it used to be, and nobody seems to know the difference.

(SALEM, Ore.) - It's bias that is the by-word in the Great Presidential Race of '08. Color of skin? Shade of hair? Tenure vs. tenderfoot? Born on mainland or the Hawaiian Islands somewhat offshore?

Op-Ed: 545 People... th-th-th-that`s all folks!

Above all, do not let these 545 people con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like 'the economy,' 'inflation,' or 'politics' that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

(GARDEN GROVE, Calif.) - Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.

Op Ed: Education, Economy,
Deeply Damaged,
Demands Action Now

Manipulated Choices Leave Nation On Edge of Disaster.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - The insight of working and middle-class Americans is leading to a realistic and angry reaction over what has happened to our economy and our educational system.