By Bill Maul | New Smyrna Beach
With elections just around the bend the SEV Democrats are in full preparation. The 2012 Presidential race has settled on its candidates. President Barack Obama will face the winner of the raucous and divisive Republican primaries - Mitt Romney. That's the national scene, but as Tip O'Neill told [...]
By Gardner | Central Florida
A look at the relationship between human population and the value of human life. Since the first nation was born, people have pursued sexual pleasures to satisfy their "sex drives", and every successful nation has encouraged procreation in order to have a supply of workers to build their nation and [...]
By Gardner | Central Florida
"If the Republican Radical Right controls the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, then the damage that will be inflicted on this nation will be epic." Politics is the same art as the art of war. There are strategies. Issues must be positioned. Positions must be "framed." The time and [...]
By Stephanie Debry, New Smyrna Beach
Like most of us, Friedman and Mendelbaum recognize that both parties are too controlled by big money and by people's beliefs in over-simplified campaign rhetoric to make the practical decisions that are desperately needed by the country. The book that our LBC group read and discussed last week [...]
A look at some of the important questions concerning the impact of the growing surveillance state on national security, civil liberties and privacy rights. Choose Privacy Week is an initiative of the American Library Association and was held this year the first week of May. As part of this initiative [...]
By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber
Growing evidence suggests that drug companies "may be responsible, at least in part, for this epidemic of accidental deaths and addiction by promoting misleading information about the drugs' safety and effectiveness." As the U.S. Senate Finance Committee launched an investigation Tuesday into makers of narcotic [...]
By Jim Hightower
Rep. Paul Ryan's trying to justify his abuse of the poor with religious lip service. Maybe you thought the lowest possible point of Republican miserliness was reached when Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Agriculture proposed that ketchup be counted as a vegetable in the school lunch program. If so, you've not [...]
By Donald Kaul
The vegetable is a quick cure for much if not most of our health problems. If you invented a pill that offers long life, good health, and a body to be proud of, you'd make a fortune. Bottles would fly off the shelves. Suggest a change in behavior that [...]
By Robert Alvarez | Institute for Policy Studies
The radioactive inventory of all the irradiated nuclear fuel stored in spent fuel pools at Fukushima is far greater and even more problematic than the molten cores. In the aftermath of the world's worst nuclear power disaster, the news media is just beginning to grasp [...]
