The above statement, framed as a title, is true. There is a significant portion of the youth living in the North Omaha community that is beyond hope of anything better in life than what you see on the news on a nightly basis. Shooting, robberies, thefts, beatings, killings, car chases. What’s worse, everyone reading this [...]
As you all have probably heard, there is a slight budget problem here in the city of Omaha. With Omaha’s Mayor Suttle attempting to re-write the contracts signed in years gone by that detail medical care for retired city workers, the focus on making everyone pay their fair share has come to the fore. On [...]
Oh those silly, silly, silly teabaggers. As I’m sure you’ve seen on all the major media outlets, the Tea Partiers have been going on and on ad nauseum about “protecting their constitutional freedoms,” “fighting unconstitutional government programs” and “resisting a government that oversteps its authority.” They’re really just a bunch of negative bigots! Who else [...]
Let’s be honest with ourselves, liberty isn’t all that important anymore. Liberty, the ability for the individual to act as he or she sees fit, without outside coercion, has been dead for a century or more, so why do we keep playing lip service to it? Let’s look at the recent health care debate for [...]
The facts are plain to see. Inequality – the disparity between the haves and the have-nots – is massive and growing. I read today that in Australia during the years of 2005 and 2006, the top 20% of households in that country held around 61 per cent of total household wealth, with an average net [...]
