Obama is sounding like Bush:

Water is important. We all know this. Everybody. Water is so essential to life that a visitor to our planet might assume that us humans are all water experts. But what do we really know about water? How much do we need to know?

By Mumia Abu-Jamal

Our national politics is largely the stuff of illusion.  It is the stuff of spin. It is the manipulation of images to pluck the heartstrings, or to stoke the furnaces of emotion.
Any emotion will do: love, hate, fear, all are but instruments upon which politicians will play to move people to the polls, [...]

NUCLEAR threats and counter-threats are a subtext of our times, steadily, it seems, becoming more insistent. The July meeting in Geneva between Iran and six major world powers on Iran’s nuclear programme ended with no progress.

A reasonably evenhanded biography of Barack Obama, published last year, describes him as “an exceptionally gifted politician who, throughout his life, has been able to make people of wildly divergent vantage points see in him exactly what they want to see.”

Honeywell, best known for their automatic controls and thermostats, bought the patent to the thermostat in 1916 from Albert Butz boosting the company’s sales to almost $300,000 that year (Honeywell Project 1988: 7). However, just prior to World War II, Honeywell consented to its first contract for the defense department. The United States government [...]

It’s been awhile, but my excuses are relevant: I have no money and must work every free second I have to get by.  Exaggeration?  Yes, but my god things are hard.  I don’t even need to mention gas prices, the cost of food is going up, now that I have finished school I must start [...]

When conservative hit-shows first began raising questions about Barack Obama’s former pastor, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, the Democratic candidate essentially played down the relationship, suggesting that Wright was like the ‘crazy uncle’ common to many families.

I feel uncomfortable telling people to vote for Barack Obama without tacking an asterisk onto the end of my plea. I feel disingenuous assuring my friends and family that Barack Obama is different than the other candidates and that once in office

Not to long ago, but before My Peace City was erected, I posted a question about income taxes in a forum on the Restore the Republic website. Here is my post:
“First of all, hello! I’m new to the forums, and I thought of all places this would probably be the best to place [...]