The War’s Real Goal

Recently, I was compiling facts for a piece I was going to send to my local paper in response to a letter written by a terribly misguided war supporter. What I came across, confirms that the real goal of the Iraq War is oil.
I decided to look up financial information on Halliburton, which everyone [...]

Karl Rove and the TV Talk Show Hosts

Think Progress has a post up called If It’s Sunday, It’s Karl Rove and in it they have a list of questions that they want the talk show hosts to ask Rove tomorrow morning. Here’s their list:

Promoting the war as a member of the White House Iraq Group
Leaking Valerie Plame’s identity
Compiling the list of [...]

How much is shipping and handling REALLY?

I have a friend who always wants to sell stuff on eBay.  I don’t know if he has ever sold anything but he knows how.  His plan is to offer something really, really cheap so people will bid on it, and then have a $50 shipping charge.  Well, I hope he never becomes a defense [...]

Corporate Crime —- did they fool you too?

I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to the mainstream media, but between that and school, there’s a lot of “stuff” that I know. Turns out a lot of it is wrong. A friend pointed me towards this article from AlterNet and I was pretty sure I wouldn’t read much of it when she [...]