Aaron Brooks Columnist Our government is broken because it does not work for the 99 percent of Americans but for corporations and the wealthy. As reported by CBS News in November 2009, a report by The Center for Responsible Politics found 44 percent of...
Sept. 1, the Obama Administration unveiled a new addition to whitehouse.gov titled "We the People."The site is aimed at "giving Americans a direct line to the White House on the issues and concerns that matter most to them," President Obama said. When...
Cut: DefenseTo get Americans back to work we need a strong economy, and one of the most corrosive elements to a strong economy is war. War has evolved. Nations no longer face an opposing military in an open battlefield for an extended period of time;...
It seems that you can't open a newspaper, magazine, or turn on the TV without hearing some sort of election coverage. Pundits and members of the news have been flocking to political meccas like New Hampshire or Iowa to cover the day-to-day politicking...
If money is finite, then hoarding money is a crime. I remember when I was in Sunday School and my youth leader, David Pauley, asked one day, "If a genie gave you three wishes, what would they be?" I responded, "To fly, have world peace (my Jesus answer)...
It is time for the Americans to fight back. The Republican agenda is very clear as they have been emboldened by their recent electoral gains. They continue their attack on workers, unions and the middle class. They attack unions because they are the last...
I always get concerned that Americans are ethnocentric. According to a recent poll by the Pew Research Center, 52 percent of Americans claimed to have heard little or nothing about the anti-government protests in Egypt. I absolutely think that Americans...
My letter is in response to the article "Wikileaks provides a public service" in Thursday's paper. The author seems to ignore some important information while making his argument. Wikileaks is an outside organization that is stealing information from...
