By Loren Adams, 02.09.14

Shutting down three lanes on the nation’s busiest bridge creates an inescapable metaphor. Not just Christie, but the entire right-wing has been determined to shut down the government for decades. And has. By God, if they don’t get their way, lanes are closed, jobs killed, government thrown into lockdown, and the nation suffers. How fitting the name of the iconic structure, George Washington Bridge (GWB), named for the nation’s father.

The Republican Party’s motives are three-fold: (1) philosophy, (2) vengeance, and (3) concentration of wealth/power.

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By Loren Adams, 01.12.14

President Barack Obama claims he knew nothing about the malfunctioning roll-out of the Affordable Care Act before October 1, 2013. He claims he was not aware of the magnitude of NSA spying before the Edward Snowden bombshell. He wasn’t prepared for accomplishing the passage of universal background checks for weapons’ purchases – notably in the aftermath of Newtown. He had no idea Congress would kill his immigration initiatives, jobs bills, employment equality, and extended unemployment insurance for 1.2 million citizens now...

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By Loren Adams, 12.08.13

Microtown is miniature America. With its Main Street, 150-year old courthouse [complete with iconic clock], business district, parks, public and private schools, forty churches, one synagogue, town cops [one of whom resembles Barney Fife] and a population that goes wild for Friday night football and, of course, the Super Bowl, Microtown mirrors the good ol’ USA.

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By Loren Adams, 11.17.13

With the advent of Ted Cruz, America is cruising towards a new Jonestown USA – unless the far right is effectively resisted and rejected by the less passionate majority that shows a weak compulsion to hold its own, much less mount an all-out assault on the crazies. Of course, Cruz is not the only false prophet to lead the nation to the brink (along with its metastasized cult). The trend has been in progress for at least 40 years. But Cruz has become the latest personification of the religious right’s dominionist...

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By Loren Adams, 11.3.13

It began as an ordinary Friday – looking forward to the weekend, checking out trailers of new movies, finishing to-do lists, planning visits to yard sales and craft fairs to appease the wife, getting ready for the football game [which I may watch out of obligation], the wife making an 11 o’clock Saturday doggy groomer appointment for our Boo, the Shih Tzu. ...

 

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