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Opinion Piece: Tax Day Tea Parties — The Wrong Step in Every Direction

Measuring a person’s right to express themselves is constitutionally guaranteed, but one thinking quite radically may cite some minor flaws. 
In the wake of one of the worst recessions our domestic economy has ever experienced, one might expect the inevitable — a grassroots political rally that uprises middle and urban America to protest somewhat unpopular decisions by the federal government. But in one of the rarest cases, this essential Democratic concept seems to partially damage the political system with its string of complications. 
Held across the country, the April 15 Tax Day Tea …

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Movie Review: State of Play

Published as guest post on Involuntary Fury
In a growing age of overpaid and overworked cinema that seems to be angled exactly in the path of money, it is never a bad idea to walk outside and take a breath of fresh air. And essentially, with that, I have summed Kevin Macdonald’s State of Play.
If one decided to find a well paced, well worked plot illogical twists, a good dose of action and a popular but unquestionably skilled cast in the past few years, he/she would be hard pressed to find …

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Analysis: Biden’s Alleged War on the Bush Administration — Where’s Obama?

Vice President Joe Biden has recently fed into the main stream media’s growing White House side story — his “single handed war” on the past Bush Administration. The latest chapter in the proposed saga came in the form of an interview unrelated to the subject, where Biden, in the process of answering the more or less softball question of “is the US more safe now than before”, made a controversial attack at former President Bush.
“We are more safe. We are more secure. Our interests are more secure — not just at …