Comments
on national and international affairs.
Politics, economics, and social issues as seen through Pridger's
mud-splattered glasses.
John Q. Pridger
BACKLOG
OF MISSING POSTS AND FRAGMENTED THOUGHT STREAMS
Friday, March 11, 2005
RELAPSE INTO DEPENDENCE (June
24, 2005)
PRODUCTION TIMES PRICE (June
10, 2005)
EXTREME MAKEOVER – a TV
program
illustrating the American Way (May 9, 2005)
STATES WITH MONEY TO BURN
(Oklahoma
spends $10 million in attempt to execute already convicted man...
Double Jeopardy) & RESPONSE TO 9/11 (Would the 9/11 Commission
members done any better than President Bush?) & JUSTICE (The
American Gulag) Fall 2004
DIVIDE AND CONQUER (When
the Consumer
is not the Producers... North and South (Civil War)... Hooked of
Foreign Oil, and everything else... New International Economic Order...
One World, etc. Fall 2004 and earlier
ECONOMICS ONE OH! ONE! (The
E=Mc2
of Economics: "I=PXP". When the consumer is favored over the producer,
labor is short-changed) No Date
EDUCATION – HOW FAR
WE'VE COME! (DOWN!
That is – and in this "enlightened era.") No date
THE PERPLEXITIES OF THE 2004
ELECTIONS
(Making sense of "Bush Country"... "Pure" Government... More Jefferson
for Today) Monday, November 22, 2004
ENERGY INDEPENDENCE (Why
didn't we wake
up at the 1973 wake-up call?... China's Economic Onslaught...) Monday,
December 1, 2004
EVOLUTION vs. INTELLIGENT
DESIGN (The
ACLU and ADL vs. the Dover County, PA, school board... More Monkey
Trials... Design or Random Chance? & "The Day Before Genesis")
No
date
THE CULTURE WARS AND The f-Word
(The Civil
Rights Connection... Death toll of lynching eclipsed by Crips and
Bloods... "Conservative Vice President introduces f-word to the
hallowed halls of Congress) July, 2004
DO THESE THINGS MAKE SENSE?
(The Supreme
Court grants God a temporary reprieve... Pridger's Arrogance...
Christian Identity... Corporate Citizenship) No Date
FOOTNOTE ON GOD AND COUNTRY...
(Job
outsourcing... John Kerry & jobs... ABC of Economics...
Protective
Tariffs... Camel's head in the door... Aftermath of WWII) Feb.
&
Mar., 2004
HOPALONG CASSIDY R-RATED? (F-Word
Central to the
Culture of the "New" America... Pridger's education in "Adult Language"
and the Devolution of American Culture... The MLK Legacy) No Date
THE INCOME TAX ABOMINATION (The
advent of
the Income Tax was the end of limited government, by the consent of the
governed... The Tax Code -- a simple thing turned into something of
unlimited complexity and injustice... Taxing the sweat of labor --
taxing what is not "income.") Tax Day, Every Year
THE IRAQI ELECTIONS (It
remains to be
seen whether government of the people, by the people, and for the
people can be imposed on a nation by and invasion, conquest, and force
of arms by a foreign power and an alien culture) Iraqi Election time
ISRAELI FURNITURE MOVERS...
Where did
all those Israeli Furniture Movers come from? December 7, 2004
JAILTON USA –
PRIDGER'S HOME TOWN, A
Heartland Economic Miracle, False Economy, No Date
JUSTICE – The principle
role of the
jury... Jury nullification, No Date
THE MARTIN LUTHER KING
HOLIDAY (The
legacy of good intentions and unintended consequences) MLK Day, 2005
LOST – LAW OF THE SEA
TREATY, (A growing
legacy of lost sovereignty and growing corporate hegemony.) February,
2005
HITLER'S LOST PLAN, (Revisiting
Hitler's
unending threat to the world – Reviving old propaganda with
alleged "new evidence" in the form of Hitler's "lost manuscript.") No
Date
NIGHTLINE ON LYNCH LAW
– (A timely
reminder, "lest we forget" how bad we white people really were, and
probably still are. And reminding African-Americans that their
grievances and resentments against white society are well founded and
should not be abandoned) February, 2005
MONEY (Funny stuff)
STEM CELLS, GAYS, AND DEBT
NATION BUILDING
THE PERENNIAL PROBLEM OF MONEY
COSTS OF
HEALTH CARE
ANOTHER HIGH SCHOOL MASSACRE
SALUTE TO FORMER PRESIDENT
RONALD REAGAN
THE BUSINESS OF SMALL
BUSINESS
TAX REFORM AND SOCIAL
SECURITY
THE FREE TRADE CON
THE UNTHINKABLE
WHERE ARE THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS
NOW? (The
the environmentalists and BLM couldn't tolerate the supposed
depredations of a few cattle, but now that Big Oil is digging in there
seems to be no outrage.) July 21, 2004