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NASCAR Ticket Sales Killer: Michigan Speedway and the Union Busting Government
On March - 18 - 2011
Recently, public employees nationwide have been feeling the sting of the torrent of rights losses trailing back to Wisconsin. Governor Scott Brown and his merry band of thieves AKA the state senate felt pretty grand after seizing the power to destroy unions. Because, as we all know, teachers everywhere need the extra cash to pay for the insurances on their individual fleets of Rolls-Royces.Its an outbreak reaching across the nation. Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Hawaii, New Mexico, Minnesota, Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan all have union-stripping measures before them.Tennessee is not a ...
NASCAR & the Black Barbershop: FOX Proves How Little They Know Black People
On March - 5 - 2011
As Liberal as I'd like to think I am, my first ever love in political television programming was the staunchly conservative Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. Back then, I was in my mid-teens, and I was deathly bored with news programming. Even The Daily Show, which I had once admired and watched nightly had grown uninteresting and bland to me since Craig Kilborn's departure and Jon Stewart's replacing him. Two years later, Comedy Central decided that Tough Crowd's conservative approach did not 'fit' the image the network wanted, and it was over. For me, it was that show that started ...