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Meet Tom Wells-Candidate for Congress and President

April 13, 2006 B. John 535 Views Campaign, florida, Tom Wells

Wells is the president and, if I?m not mistaken, founder of the Family Values Party. He is currently attempting to qualify to run for both houses of Congress from Florida for the 2006 election. Where he gets real interesting is when you check out his homepage. His site shows all the hallmarks of an extreme right wing page that has little or no budget. But if you click on the link entitled ?To find out who can and who cannot give money to the Family Values Party or to Tom Wells? Campaign,? what you get is what appears to be a basic html web form with check boxes. It isn?t actually, since the closing sentence is: ?If you qualify and want to contribute to The Family Values Party, or to the Tom Wells campaigns you must download this web sight, fill it out, sign and date the completed form. Remember all applicable Federal and State laws concerning federal campaign laws apply.? So what looks like an interactive web form is actually a ?sight? that you have to print out and mail if you want to use.

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Letter to Congress About Marines on No-Fly List

April 13, 2006 B. John 416 Views Homeland Security, Bill Nelson, Jim Davis, Mel Martinez, No-fly list, Transportation Security Administration, TSA

After reading of a Marine Reservist placed on TSA’s no-fly list because gun powder was found on his boots, I wrote the following to my congressional delegation. I would invite you to take action as well.

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Supreme Court Justice Scalia Flips Finger in Church

March 27, 2006September 29, 2018 B. John 296 Views supreme court, Antonin Scalia, Church, Obscene Gesture

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by flipping a middle finger to his critics. There is a photo.

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Shattering The Myth Of White Supremacy

March 23, 2006September 29, 2018 B. John 351 Views george bush, Charles Rangel, Myth, White Supremacy

Shattering The Myth Of White Supremacy

Culture Politics Society

Which Kids Grow Up to Be Liberals and Which Become Conservative

March 20, 2006 B. John 350 Views conservative, Liberal, Scientific Research

University of California at Berkley professor Jack Block and his late wife, Jeanne Bock, tracked almost one hundred children for two decades. From nursery school on, the kids were studied and interviewed–without any sense of political bias. The whiniest, least confident kids were those who grew up to be uncomfortable with ambiguity, who toed a rigid line on social issues, and who were, for the most part, right wingers. The kids who were loose, interesting, and willing to challenge authority ended up being liberals.

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NYPD Goal…Prevent Citizen Protests With Pre-emptive Arrests

March 17, 2006September 29, 2018 B. John 289 Views Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Expression, Police Misconduct, Probably Cause, Totalitarian State, Totalitarianism

Unbelievable, and yet true: The explicit goal of the police is to prevent law-abiding citizens from protesting. If this isn’t a totalitarian state, I don’t know what is.

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The Basis For The Rise of Religious Extremism

March 16, 2006 B. John 309 Views Connecting Culture, Control Culture, Philip Slater

I came across an article by author and playwright, Philip Slater, titled “Why America is Polarized.” This is perhaps one of the best explanations I’ve read explaining why religious fundamentalism is on the rise, not only in America, but around the world. Slater’s basic premise is that, “The purest forms of a cultural system always appear as it decays.”

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Congressional Lapdogs Prepare to Gut FISA-Give President Imperial Power

March 9, 2006September 29, 2018 B. John 284 Views republicans, senate, Domestic Spying, FISA, Illegal Spying, NY Times

Republicans are packaging as “reform” a plan that would gut FISA, leaving the president free to spy on Americans without obtaining a warrant. A NY Times editorial expresses appropriate outrage at this cynical ploy to shield the president’s lawless behavior:

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Federal Credit Card Maxed Out

March 8, 2006 B. John 314 Views Federal Deficit, National Debt Limit, tax cuts, Federal Budget

Treasury Secretary John Snow notified Congress yesterday that the administration had taken “all prudent and legal actions” to keep from hitting the $8.2 trillion national debt limit.

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And So Begins The End

March 3, 2006 B. John 348 Views facism, Homeland Security, Privacy

A couple in Rhode Island decided to pay off their J.C. Penney credit card, so they mailed in a $6,500 payment. They later learned their payment was being held until reviewed by Homeland Security because it was more than their usual monthly payment.

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Small Room-Small Man

March 2, 2006September 29, 2018 B. John 497 Views hurricane, Katrina, george bush, Weather, liar, Lying, Vacation

It turns out that George Bush wasn’t being completely honest explaining the federal government’s response to Katrina. I know this will come as a big shock to many of you, but when W said that no one thought it would be as bad as it was, and no one could have anticipated the levee breach, he wasn’t telling the whole truth.