Tax The Politicians! Let Them Feel Our Pain There’s one booming sector of the economy that escapes taxes the rest of us pay. It’s the political campaign business. Politicians and political [...] Jim Scarantino \ Oct 09, 2008 Read More
Buddy, Can You Spare Some Change We Can Believe In? Politicians Rake It In While America Suffers There’s not a thing wrong with the American economy. We’re doing great. Just look at all the extra cash Americans are able to [...] Jim Scarantino \ Oct 02, 2008 Read More
Versus: Palin Drone Sexism And The Gop’s Candidate For Vp Perhaps it required finely tuned feminist radar to detect the media’s sexist treatment of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. I admit, I missed it. But [...] Jim Scarantino \ Sep 11, 2008 Read More
Obama The War President? Will You Fight His Wars? Barack Obama wants to keep as many as 50,000 American troops in Iraq indefinitely. His 16-month timetable does not mean a complete withdrawal, [...] Jim Scarantino \ Aug 28, 2008 Read More
Scarantino Eats Pigweed Legend, Eat Your Pigweed! You are Legend. Central is deserted. Abandoned cars clog the street. Rusty bicycles rest in racks with locks that will never again open. [...] Jim Scarantino \ Aug 14, 2008 Read More
How Pnm Can Make Wind Power Affordable Wind Customers Shouldn’t Pay For Other Energy Costs Like the current state of technology for electric car batteries, altruism can take us only so far in moving our economy to new [...] Jim Scarantino \ Jul 31, 2008 Read More
News Profile: Jesus For President Christians In Full Rebellion You wouldn’t peg Chris Haw and Shane Claiborne as monks. Haw carries himself like a rock climber. Claiborne sports dreadlocks and quotes St. [...] Jim Scarantino \ Jul 31, 2008 Read More Monks Chris Haw (left) and Shane Claiborne urge Christians to rebel against the imperial state. (Jim Scarantino)
Jim Scarantino Eats Trolleys For Breakfast Questions On The Resurrected “Modern Streetcar” I’ve got a few questions about this resurrected $28 million-a-mile trolley—excuse me, “modern streetcar.”First, some history: In the fall of 2006, under Council [...] Jim Scarantino \ Jul 17, 2008 Read More
Got Your Mind Right? Our National Fear Of Facts “But don’t you believe in global warming?”I’ve received that response repeatedly when I ask questions about the science behind AGW, anthropogenic (man-made) global [...] Jim Scarantino \ Jul 03, 2008 Read More
The Udall Economy Restricting Energy Supplies Means Higher Prices Tom Udall’s Senate campaign is running a television ad blaming high gasoline, food and health care costs on “the George W. Bush economy.” [...] Jim Scarantino \ Jun 19, 2008 Read More