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Ed Martin is an ordinary person who is recovering from being badly over-educated. Born in the middle of the Great Depression, he is not affiliated with nor a member of any political, social or religious organization. He is especially interested in the phenomenon of those who view the glaringly obvious with total incomprehension, in other words, out political, social and religious leaders.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 12, 2011 See, I Told You So Comes Back Around to Bite Rush Limbaugh
Appropriately, the title of Rush Limbaugh's book, See, I Told You So, is exactly the proper phrase to describe the exactly predicted response Limbaugh would make.
SHARE Sunday, January 9, 2011 Let the Spin Begin. Lamar Alexander Kicks it Off
How the Republican hate mongers will put the blame for the Arizona shootings on everyone but themselves and make it, as usual, the best thing that has ever happened for Republicans.
SHARE Wednesday, November 17, 2010 BS and circuses, and the end of empires
The Republicans are offering bullshit and circuses instead of bread and circuses to distract the people from their failure to govern.
SHARE Thursday, November 4, 2010 Want to know why the Democrats lost? Here are two headlines that tell you why
We've been pointing out the obvious fact that the Republicans live in a delusional, fantasy world that they've made up to suit themselves. They're not the only ones. Obama is still living in his own delusional, fantasy world.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Mistaking the symptom for the disease
Cristine O'Donnell, Sharon Angle, Michele Bachmann are just three examples of the pustules on the posterior of our country. These pustulant eruptions are only the symptoms of a disease affecting most of the population.
(11 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 19, 2010 The worst is yet to come; foreclosure fraud is the banksters' least problem
There's an overlooked requirement of contract law that is the real problem for the banksters, and they don't appear to be aware of it. If the requirements of contract law were met it would make every original mortgage note that a bank sold to another bank invalid, unenforceable and uncollectable immediately upon sale.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 14, 2010 Getting a Congress that represents us
Consider the question: Can someone who makes $174,000 a year be representative of you? Even if they're not, can they be a representative for you? The answer is no, but there's a way to get representatives of and for us in Congress.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 12, 2010 There are no liberals
An article here on OEN by Rob Kall points out the White House elite's disdain for what they call the "professional left." We are mistaken to let the White House, the conservatives or the Republicans define us.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 1, 2010 Lessons not learned: Shirley, Andrew is not the one who fired you
Several people have proposed that there are lessons to be learned from the Breitbart Fraud Affair perpetrated on Shirley Sherrod. The most important lesson to be learned, falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, is not among them.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, July 19, 2010 It's my Party and I'll lie if I want to
That's the Republican Party doing the talking, there. In a decision by a Republican judge appointed by Republican George Bush, the judge has sanctioned lying as perfectly acceptable behavior.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, July 9, 2010 Do not go gentle into that Republican night
With apologies to Dylan Thomas, question for you. Are we going to let out country become Glenn Beck's abomination of a corporate theocracy, ruled by lying hypocrites, the Republicans?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 17, 2009 The Heart of Hypocrisy, Tarrant County, Texas
Tarrant County, Texas is number three on the list of the nation's counties that get the most federal money. From listening to the Republicans who run it, it's number one on the hypocrisy list.
SHARE Monday, December 14, 2009 John Boehner, the Man with the Plan
The December 11 Washington Post has an article by John Boehner titled, "A better plan for jobs." I defy anyone, Boehner included, to read through the article and find anything that even remotely resembles a plan. It's just another re-hash of failed Republican ideology.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 10, 2009 We gave Bush hell for it, now it's Obama's turn
In all fairness, when Obama does the same thing for which we called George Bush a war criminal, how can we not apply the same standard to Obama?
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, August 28, 2009 The Rise of the Barbarians
Someone was asked what would they tell Obama is the greatest threat to the United States. The answer was the Afghanistan war and terrorism. Neither one is even close. Obama is standing right in the middle of the greatest threat to the United States, looking at it every day. That threat is the cult of Republicanism.