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(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 21, 2013 Ratify Article the First to Return the Government to We the People
America is sick. The problem is that the people no longer have representation in government. Until 1911, the size of the House increased along with the population. It has been frozen at 435 for 102 years. In that time the population has increased by more than 220 million. It's impossible for 435 people to represent over 313 million. It's time for a change. Vote for more info.
SHARE Thursday, August 12, 2010 Conservatives Discover US Constitution (Satire)
Thought by some conservatives to have been lost forever, and regarded by others as a myth, Republicans and Tea Party activists have recently rediscovered the United States Constitution.
SHARE Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Review: Pac-Man Battle Royale
A hands-on on review of the new Pac-Man coin-op that'll hit arcades nationwide in September 2010.
SHARE Monday, August 2, 2010 On the Neuroticism of Fox News Viewers
Christopher Nolan had it wrong, inception is pretty easy... The following is an analysis of Fox's tactics of manipulation and the defenses employed by their viewers.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 14, 2009 13 Year Old Girl Raped Gun Point Now Faces Trial (Satire)
Suzzie Marshall, a 13 year old freshman from Mount Bermsher, Arizona was charged earlier today with conspiracy to commit waste of finite, prosecutors say.
Marshall was walking home from school on Monday late at night when she was sexually assaulted at gunpoint by Lee Jersson, a 33 year old local mechanic. Jersson, who has prior convictions for drug trafficking and assault, has not yet been charged with a crime.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Healthcare Reform: How to Save the Public Option
A blueprint to pass healthcare reform with the much needed public option without destroying the private industry... in five simple steps.
SHARE Saturday, July 4, 2009 Thomas Paine – An American Liberal Lion
On this July 4th, 2009, America is facing a crisis, though unlike the crisis she faced when the Quaker pamphleteer wrote "The Crisis" in 1776, the United States born out of that crisis faces ones of poverty, inequality, debt, under-education education, and tyrannical opposition to personal freedoms. Once again, these are the times that try men's souls.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, June 6, 2008 John McCain: See Who's on Top of His Shortlist for Vice President
Who could it be? It won't be Rice, Romney, or Huckabee. Would you believe that a Jew from Connecticut, a woman from Alaska, and a Governor from Florida are his best choices? Read more...
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Running Mates: Obama's Best Vice Presidential Picks
With Barack Obama passing the delegate threshold and assuming the role of his party's presumptive nominee, all attention is now turning towards the Veepstakes. Who will Barack Obama choose as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee? Here's a hint: It won't be Hillary Clinton.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 31, 2008 Hillary Clinton's Plan for Victory (Seriously)
It's been a long campaign with a lot of ups, downs, and surprises. The biggest surprise for Hillary Clinton is that she is not the presumptive nominee for her party. The biggest surprise for observers: That she's still in the race.
Despite the odds, Senator Clinton may have a roadmap to the nomination, without relying completely on superdelegates either.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 4, 2008 Fighting Foreclosure: The Tools and Resources to Prevent Foreclosure
Foreclosure auctions are becoming commonplace in America today, as are streets littered with "For Sale" signs placed in the yards of homes that have been on the market for months, with little hope of actually selling. Bankruptcy laws have now been changed to favor the lenders, leaving consumers will little protection when times get tough.
With foreclosure rates at their highest in history, know how to prevent it!
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 27, 2008 Obama's "Shocking" Win in South Carolina: Is it really so shocking?
With 55% of the votes, Barack Obama won the South Carolina primary, his first victory since the 2008 primary season began in Iowa on a cold January night. Many talking heads are applying adjectives of importance to Obama's recent victory, but how significant is it really?
SHARE Saturday, January 19, 2008 The Oregon Trail - A PC game that inspires Peace
As a child in computer lab, after I had completed lesions that I thought were teaching me how to operate a computer, (little did I know that real computers don't have clover buttons), I did the same thing every day that everyone else did: I booted up The Oregon Trail.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 16, 2008 A Question to Republican Apologists: Why not Huckabee?
So during this nomination, and especially in the post-Iowa caucus landscape, all of the big GOP power players from elected officials to Rush Limbaugh are really aggressively pushing for an "anyone but Huckabee" nominee, but why?
SHARE Sunday, January 13, 2008 Off the Wall – The honorable adventures of Kung Fu Lu
What happens when Breakout meets the Mario Bros. (the original Mario Bros. that appeared on classic systems such as the Atari 2600, back when Mario and Luigi were just cousins, before they were brothers)? Off the Wall happens, and it's smashing!
Our hero is Kung Fu Lu, a young lad who has been granted five lives...
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 12, 2008 Is the Left Becoming the Party of Paranoia? The true story of the New Hampshire recount movement
With Hillary Clinton's recent win over rival Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary, cries of foul play and voter fraud have increasingly become louder and louder, and it's deeply disturbing.
With Hillary Clinton's recent win over rival Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary, cries of foul play and voter fraud have increasingly become louder and louder, and it's deeply disturbing.
(37 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 9, 2008 Why Hillary Clinton Beat Obama in New Hampshire
After most polls predicted a huge, double digit victory for Illinois Senator Barack Obama in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary, the actual voters had an entirely different idea. Find out why.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, January 7, 2008 How Obama and Richardson Cheated in the Iowa Caucuses
History has already been made. Illinois Senator Barack Obama won the Iowa Caucuses. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson placed fourth. But did they really earn their finishing positions? The answer may be surprising.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, December 28, 2007 Republicans and Democrats React to Bhutto Assassination; McCain, Biden Benefit
A world away, in the United States, the crisis in Pakistan is beginning to reshape the political ground game in the upcoming elections. With the January 3rd Iowa caucuses less than a week away at this point, Bhutto's assassination is having an effect, with both Republican and Democratic candidates attempting to take hold of the issue...
(9 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 23, 2007 Endorsement: Joe Biden for President – He can Unite America and the World
In this election cycle there is a chance to make history. The first woman president, the first African American president; the chance to solve poverty, the chance to end a war. What it all comes down to is, 'What's the highest priority?'
If the answer is that ending the war in Iraq with a victory, and bringing the troops home in a way that secures the region andAmerica's image in the world, then vote for Joe!
(16 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 22, 2007 Mike Gravel Announces Third Party Bid; Why Ron Paul Will be Next
Former Senator Mike Gravel has announced that he will run as a third party candidate in order to stay in the presidential race up until the end. Also, an analysis of why Texas Congressman Ron Paul will most likely do the same, and run as an independent.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 20, 2007 Astronomy Cast – A Podcast Explaining the Universe with Facts (Podcast Review)
Astronomy Cast (www.astronomycast.com) sends its listeners on a facts-based journey through the universe every week. Sit at your computer as you explore the rings of Saturn. Lay comfortably in bed as your dive feet first into a supermassive black hole, and even learn what one is!
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 18, 2007 Buy Her Lab-Grown Diamonds this Year; Not Blood Diamonds
Over the last few years, amazing new technology has allowed for near-perfect, high-quality diamonds to be grown in laboratories in the United States and elsewhere, but the De Beers international diamond cartel doesn't want you to know that.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 17, 2007 Forget Bush and Cheney, Let's Impeach Joe Lieberman!
First he kisses Bush, now he's in bed with John McCain. In another remarkable turnabout from Senator Joseph Lieberman, the independent Democrat from Connecticut, who has more in common with neoconservatives than with moderate progressives, has officially openly endorsed Arizona Senator John McCain, a Republican, for President.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, December 7, 2007 Defending Phoenix: Mayor Phil Gordon is Right to Crack Down on Illegal Immigrants
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon – a Democrat – is coming under fire from people in Phoenix, from within Arizona, and from across the country for ordering his police officers to check the legal status of criminals after they've committed a crime. But what's so wrong about that?
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 4, 2007 Separation of Church and State: Fact or Fiction? An analysis of the argument and the truth behind it
Over the past three decades an increase in debate over the five words "Separation of Church and State" has been increasingly ramped up due to pressure from America's religious and political right, as their agenda is to see that Christian theology play a vital role in the governing and in the legislation of our country. With the impending 2008 presidential election at hand...
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 30, 2007 The Axis of the Abhorred: North Korea, Iran and the United States
Move over axis of evil, there is a new axis in town, the 'axis of the abhorred.' Consisting of the two remaining axis of evil members plus, you guessed it, the United States. Bush's words have now come full circle, and the price of Bush's indifference was the world's opinion of the US.
(29 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Pope Benedict XVI – How his abortion agenda can destroy the Church in the U.S.
Pope Benedict XVI, formerly known as Cardinal Ratzinger, was the architect of a plot against Sen. John Kerry in 2004, where members of the Catholic Church publically refused him communion. With a number of Catholics in the race this year, Benedict XVI may end up swift-boating his own organization.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Inventing God: A Case Study in Creating a New Religion
In a recent experiment, I hypnotized about how new religions, and religion in general, come into existance. I then elevated a 1922 US silver dollar to the status of a powerful god, then converted people to the new religion. Read about my predictions, results, and conclusion.
(13 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 24, 2007 Solving Illegal Immigration for Dummies
The influx of illegal immigrants and all related issues are all symptoms of other, more serious problems. If the root problems are addressed, then illegal immigration can cease altogether.
(17 comments) SHARE Friday, November 23, 2007 A Call for Bankruptcy Reform: A Message to the Presidential Candidates from 'We the People'
In 2005, a charade took place on the floor of the House and Senate. It is now called the "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act" (BAPCPA). Proponents willfully deceived the American people in arguing that the bill would 'protect consumers' from those who abuse the system. It only protects creditors and caused foreclosures to soar.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 21, 2007 'Honor Killings' of women: an Islamic tradition
Killing in the name of honor; thousands of women in the Middle East are murdered each year for crimes such as being raped or having premarital sex, or getting divorced, crimes that bring dishonor to their families. Slowly, people are fighting back, but the murders continue.
(16 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Political Analysis: Explaining the Ron Paul Phenomenon
Stunning grass-roots support and amazing fund raising have most people surprised by Ron Paul's performance, despite his single digit poll numbers. What can explain the 'Ron Paul Revolution'?