Where oh Where Have the Solutions Gone?

Alternative media of all types sprung up because of the deficiencies of mass media.

That could have been a useful thing.

But I have noticed that in reality there is little difference between them.

Knowingly or unknowingly most of the alternative media have fallen into the snare.

May 19, 2009 - The evidence concerning the eligibility of Also Known As (AKA) Obama to the office of president is really quite simple.

Regarding the document AKA claims is his birth certificate…

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While this very short item clearly explains what has to be done and HOW to do it (everyone keeps asking WHAT CAN WE DO) I do not see anyone taking up the challenge.  Too many are still too comfy to get off their fat azzes and demand compliance by those hired (selected) to ‘represent’ those of us who foot the bills.

Too many are still saying to *let the Feds pay for it*.  Well, folks, the *Feds* have nothing except that which they first take from us.  So when you say *Let the Feds pay for it* you are saying for the Feds to TAKE YOUR MONEY to pay for *it*.  It has always amazed me at the screaming ignorance of people who make statements about it being a Federal, State, County, City, responsibility.    They are ignorant of where those entities get their money and power from…  the same individual who is saying it is a (insert level) problem or responsibility.

May 16, 2009 – Like an old Blues song, this column should open with the proverbial line, “I woke up this morning….”

Shortly after I began my “career” in broadcasting in 1995, I met a man, who I would interview on numerous occasions, and who over the years, would converse with me due to a common-connection: We were both Veterans of the Rumble in the Jungle – the Police Action known as Viet Nam.

In an age, when the political stage is filled with near-do-wells, queer-do-wells, and well-funded perpetual dilatants, who occupy offices of influence, Ted Sampley spent many years exposing these “heroes” for what they truly are – cowards.

May 17, 2009 – Unlike the United States Capital, U.S. Senator Roland Burris was not barred from entering the Belvedere Mall in Waukegan, Illinois yesterday to address a crowd of open border groups. particularly; Family Latina Unida, Elvira Arellano’s group, and Central Sin Fronteras (without borders) whose executive director, Emma Lozano acted as emcee and interpreter for the event.

Ms. Lozano, an anarchist, is the sister of Rudy Lozano, the person credited for bringing the Mexican and Puerto Rican communities together behind Chicago’s first Black Mayor, Harold Washington’s campaign.

Rudy was also the Midwest field organizer for the old International Ladies Garment Workers Union, before he was gunned down execution style in the kitchen of his Little Village home, back in 1983.

May 17, 2009 – What do you suppose it is like to be elected president of the United States only to find that your power is restricted to the service of powerful interest groups?

A president who does a good job for the ruling interest groups is paid off with remunerative corporate directorships, outrageous speaking fees, and a lucrative book contract. If he is young when he assumes office, like Bill Clinton and Obama, it means a long life of luxurious leisure.

Fighting the special interests doesn’t pay and doesn’t succeed.

May 17, 2009 – I don’t know, I must be getting old. Maybe it is senility, or possibly the early stages of Alzheimer’s, but I am confused. This whole issue of terrorism has got me in a conundrum.

Putting aside the still unanswered questions about 9/11, if we are to believe our government, we are in a war on terror with radicals who want to bring death and destruction to American soil.

After all, isn’t that why we have approximately 140,000 U.S. troops deployed to Iraq, and another 30,000 deployed to Afghanistan? Isn’t that why President Bush established the Department of Homeland Security? C’mon, if a President is going to overstep his Constitutional authority, he may as well do it in a way the benefits the country, right?

May 17, 2009 – Americans need a civics lesson.  And so do politicians.  Of all the wrong and delusional thinking about the US Constitution the one that is most thoroughly incorrect and routinely used for political propaganda purposes is that there are three coequal branches of the federal government.

You hear presidents, members of Congress and media pundits say it all the time.  They are wrong.  Nowhere in the Constitution or the Federalist Papers is there any statement or declaration that the three branches are coequal.  Why has this myth persisted for so long?  Why do so many prominent and supposedly educated people keep invoking this outright lie?

“600 Words by Esther J. Cepeda”

May 17, 2009 – People, bear with me here, I’m only a few days removed from having completed a frustrating and maddening master’s level class in effective teaching strategies to help English language learners pick up our baffling but beloved language, and a report that was just released has me climbing the walls.

But more about that in a moment, let me vent some more:
It was the kind of class where the teacher framed everything in terms of “cultural respect” and where all the students felt it was imperative to teach kids in their native language and that to insist otherwise was to buy into the evil construct of the “white man” trying to keep poor Latinos “down.”

Much like my experience being an actual teacher in a classroom of non-native English-language speakers, where I was castigated as the lone weirdo who insisted on talking to and teaching her students in English, I was the freakish anomaly in this class.