Category: politics

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Jim Carrey’s Satire on Assault Weapons

    Carrey is lip-synching backed by his band: Gandhi, Lincoln and John Lennon.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Taking it Global: Online Freedom of Speech versus the 6th Amendment

    Freedom of Speech is only one of the rights/protections that the US Constitution offers its citizens.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Censored but not Silenced: Part 5/5

    Is it possible that Murdock—or other wealthy neoconservatives—are supplying the money behind the IMED where Julie Lenarz is a fellow?

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Censored but not Silenced: Part 4/5

    I have learned that it is best to be suspicious of political nonprofit organizations with impressive sounding names that promise to achieve wonderful things and make the world a better place. They could be a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Censored but not Silenced: Part 3/5

    There are several private-sector special interest groups that benefited from the Iraq War—each one for a different reason.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Censored but not Silenced: Part 2/5

    Wars are fought with mostly borrowed money that ends up growing the National Debt and that debt—if it is ever paid off—will be paid by U.S. tax payers and not by oil companies.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Censored but not Silenced: Part 1/5

    Civil Liberties says, “The right to free speech is a longstanding U.S. tradition, but actually respecting the right to free speech is not.”

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Does MADE in the U.S.A. mean made by an American-born citizen?

    Over a five-year period 2007 to 2011, almost 2,000 illegal immigrants died attempting to cross America’s southwest deserts and almost three million were caught and sent back home.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Evolution of a National Debt Burden – Part 7/7

    The 1935 Social Security Act created primarily a pay-as-you-go system, meaning that payments to current retirees come from current payments into the system.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Evolution of a National Burden – Part 6/7

    According to Joe Weisenthal of Business Insider Magazine, it was President Clinton that caused the global financial crises of 2007-08, because he did not spend enough and increase the national debt.