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(OpEdNews Contributing Editor since October 2006) Inner city schoolteacher from New York, mostly covering media manipulation. I put election/finance reform ahead of all issues but also advocate for fiscal conservatism, ethics in journalism and curbing overpopulation. I enjoy open debate, history, the arts and hope to adopt a third child. Gustav Wynn is a pseudonym, but you knew that.
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Thursday, February 8, 2007Eyewitness: Watada Judge Panicked and Bailed In a showdown of rock solid preparedness, conviction and mental toughness, Lt. Ehren Watada seems to have outgunned Judge Lt. Col. John Head, who became unglued and declared a mistrial. Read about the startling legal move made by the defense that made discussion of the legality of the war inevitable - something the judge did NOT want in his courtroom.
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Monday, September 15, 2008Hannity Calls For Hearings, Joining Ranks With Millions of Liberals Hannity's rant Monday was a "pre-emptive strike" at anybody politicizing the 500 point stock market plunge. Calling for hearings (at last), he caught up to those of us demanding oversight and accountability for years. Great call, Sean!
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Thursday, January 18, 2007Hillary Scores, Obama Fumbles and Kucinich Blitzes Rush Hillary Clinton? Master puppeteer. Barack Obama? Again proven human with flawed energy policy. Dennis Kucinich? The slow, steady engine that could, chugging away for the American people.
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Monday, December 31, 2007Another "Anti-War" NY Representative Explains Why He Won't Impeach Freshman Rep. John Hall calls for strong censure of Bush/Cheney, supporting investigations and inquests for multiple White House abuses and violations, yet stops short of signing on for impeachment hearings. Hear his rationale, including his contention that no matter how the hearings would play out "no article of impeachment would result in a conviction in the Senate".
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010Boston Joins Move To Greater Transparency Through Digital Recordkeeping Boston is the latest of 400 municipal and county governments to implement a paperless system for official record keeping that will considerably increase public access to council business.
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Thursday, September 4, 2008Giuliani Logic: Personality over Economy, Career over Family Reduced to a political hitman focusing on personal attacks, Giuliani's purpose gets more dire. But what does HIS personal life contribute to the debate about families sacrificing for one parents' political career?
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007Why we need to learn the name Sibel Edmonds What's the tie between the Valerie Plame affair, the DoJ scandal, ten million missing White House emails and mishandling of crucial intel regarding suspects involved in 9-11? Everything, says whistleblower Sibel Edmonds - but the US media won't touch it and Congress won't hold hearings...so far.
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Monday, May 26, 2008Cleaning Our Congress: I Just Found my Rep. Makes Speeches for Rev. Hagee As we tune in more seriously to Congressional races, it's surprising how little we know about our Congressional reps. Turn up the radar now! I found out my Rep. barely represents my Democratic NY district. I knew he was pro-business and pro-war but I never knew he was speaking at Rev. Hagee's religio-political conferences, or that he was moonlighting for Israel's most extreme right wing hawks! Vigilance...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008The Polarizer and The Unifier: A Reasoned Look As it drags on, the Hillary-Obama debate gets more vicious - we've now seen polarization across gender, race, age, class and ideology. But we've also seen many firsts: cleaner campaign fundraising, record turn-outs, record youth blocs, record first-time voter blocs, and a new "standard for candor". Can you guess which candidate is the divider and which is calmly building all these bridges?
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009Arlen Specter's NSA Probe Gone Lame Was it Specter's decision to leave the GOP, or was he blacklisted? Remember Specter's inquiry into the NSA wiretaps, suddenly quashed with no explanation? A "threat" by Karl Rove published in Insight magazine may provide a clue...
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Friday, March 16, 2007Are your investments killing America? George Bush received a standing ovation when he recently visited Wall Street, obviously for fostering a "profit friendly" landscape. But if the financial industry is morally bankrupt, why are we handing over all of our investment funds to them? Perhaps it's time we all took a personal ethics check. You may be shocked to realize what your money is being used for right now!
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Thursday, January 25, 2007Shaping campaign finance reform Your input is welcome on an idea for implementation of campaign finance reform that de-emphasizes the influence of large donors and corporate influence. Come discuss the pros and cons of this suggestion. Is it practical, possible or preposterous?
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007OpEdNews Readers: Hold Congress Accountable The latest Iraq War funding bill passes - but how did the measure go through so quickly and with such little public debate or scrutiny? What of the Dems who could have blocked funding? Are they listening? Or are they shills for the military industrial complex? We ask constituents from all corners to share the official word on why their representatives caved in. 
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008Heightened Alert: ABC News and White House Colluding in Fear Campaign? ABC News publishes an unflinchingly one-sided piece on Homeland Security's latest scare-package, claiming the U.S. is about to enter a Period of Heightened Alert, or POHA. Are we prepared for our Period?
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007Why George Tenet is Just Another O.J., or Why Impeachment is a "Slamdunk" Ex-CIA Director publicizes a tell-all book so short on revelations, it compels readers to protest the judgment of the publisher. Not only doesn't he deliver, he doesn't avoid the rancid stench of complicity, prompting disgusted CIA vets to call for stripping him of his Medal of Freedom. Tenet is a mature DC politico with blood on his hands, indignantly crying sour grapes before his 15 minutes fade but here's what you can do.
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Sunday, October 22, 2006The solution for Iraq: Impeachment of Bush The United States of Appeasement: Can we the people re-instill ethics into our leadership? Only if we toss Bush out.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007General Petraeus: There Must Be No More Vietnams On the eve of his marginalization, Bush finally implements practicable Iraq strategy, led by aticulate and ethical soldier-academic Dr. David Petraeus. But will this only underscore how incompetent his leadership has been for the last three years?
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007Don't give your voter mojo away! REFUSE TO REGISTER WITH A PARTY State party bosses are secretive, rat-tailed cheaters who pimp the American people out for the millions raised by front-running candidates. This, because Democrats and Republicans boast memberships over a quarter of the entire nation's population. Voters can regain power from the RNC and DNC by participating only in the general election and skipping primaries.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007Fixing Healthcare: the answer lies in our past By 2008, healthcare could very well be the deciding issue in the presidential election. With all the proposals on the table, which one makes the most sense? I'd suggest the answer is none of the above - we need to go back 30 years and take a look at the way it WAS. |
