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May 2012

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Issue #51

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Meet the 1st Lady of Fractivism: The Woman Who Connects the Dots! By CommonSense2 Editor

This is the first of a two-part interview with Dory Hippauf, the author of our Connect the Dots series. In part 1 we discuss how and why Dory became an...

Mr. Fish Comes Knocking By Kevin McCloskey

“Editorial cartooning has never had a Mozart, much less a Bob Dylan, although there have always been a shitload of Donovans in the profession.” -Mr. Fish Mr. Fish isn’t his...

Aubrey McClendon: Chesapeake Energy’s Little Problem By Dory Hippauf

Connecting the Dots: The Marcellus Natural Gas Play Players–Part 6 Shareholders of Chesapeake Energy received an unwelcome wake-up call on Wednesday, April 17, 2012. Reuter’s headline screamed “Exclusive: Chesapeake CEO...

Editor's Choice

I’m writing this newsletter at noon on May 1st. Our hits are lighting up like a flashing pinball machine as you, our loyal readers, come back to see our new...

CommonSense2 May, 2012 – Issue # 51

by CommonSense2 Editor May 1, 2012

While rambling around the internet you see many thought-provoking visuals or posters. Here are some of my favorites:

“These Are a Few of My Favorite Things”

by CommonSense2 Editor May 1, 2012

When I think of you even as a scrawny kid in Londonderry razzing the British in a street rally there is always the crown of the sun a few inches...

REMEMBERING JACK LEWIS

by Jack Lindeman May 1, 2012

Single payer advocates have traditionally sought help from Liberals and Democrats when attempting to effect universal, publicly financed and privately delivered healthcare legislation. Thus, with the election of President Obama...

Affordable Care Act? An Oxymoron!

by Dr. Bill Davidson May 1, 2012

On a bright Monday morning, a day before tax returns were due, I bumped into my ersatz friend Marshbaum who was placing a change container at the Gas-High Mini-mart on...

Spearing a Tax Deduction

by Walter Brasch May 1, 2012

How Do We Improve Public Schools?

by Elizabeth Walters May 1, 2012

“As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that...

The Velvet Glove Over the Iron Fist

by Dorothy Reilly May 1, 2012

“I don’t want to shock anyone here, have people dashing out of the room; but the VA is a socialized health care system. [So] that’s socialized medicine in the...

The VA Monologues

by Lynn M. Petrovich May 1, 2012

In Part 1 of this series, we examined how our “leaders” and “experts” ignored the warning signs of an impending economic storm and ended up with huge trade deficits, growing...

The Big Picture – What Can We Do?

by Rudy Avizius May 1, 2012

In late March the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) entertained arguments for and against the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed into law two years earlier....

What Will SCOTUS Do? You Be the Judge

by Ron Stouffer and Rosie Skomitz May 1, 2012

For years, my father, a federal employee with a top secret clearance, carried a copy of his birth certificate when he went into Baja California from our home in San...

The Trayvon Martin Case: A Lesson Still to Be Learned

by Walter Brasch May 1, 2012

The tide of history is on the side of the oppressed. The oppressor is nearly always either knocked clean out of the picture or battered to the point where he...

SONS OF GOD

by Jack Lindeman

Editors' Picks

(for Robert Hayden) if they ask for us tell them we are out with the dancers or walking to mars with our hands in our pockets or anything but don’t...

Dreams

by G.K. Thomas

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