Naomi Klein’s: The Shock Doctrine
by Ron Stouffer and Rosie Skomitz
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And churn them out, they did. Friedman and his devotees laid the worldwide groundwork that enabled their corporate benefactors/beneficiaries to use whatever means necessary— physical threats (and worse), economic sabotage, or other shocks—in order to produce the desired results.

Dorcas—Part II
by Pat Brown

Doris “Dorcas” Weidner—painter, sculptor, photographer, art historian, poet, carpenter, naturalist, environmentalist, animal lover, teacher—all of these and so much more.

John Updike: Writer at Rest
by James Patrick
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I will admit that, later that night, I took out the book and went over to my small Remington portable typewriter. I typed out the sections of Odd Jobs and hoped that, one day, I would be able to fill up as many pages as Updike did and to do it as well as he did.

DIRT – a novella
by Barry Greenawalt

Read the first installment of an intriguing new novella by CommonSense 2 contributor Barry Greenawalt.

Imagery In The Poetry of Francis Thompson
by Jack Lindeman

Of course, at the same time, it must be remembered that no poet could possibly write about another poet in the way Thompson has about Shelly without feeling a deep aesthetic kinship with that poet. In other words, Thompson is telling us penetrating truths about Shelley’s poems while at the same time, perhaps unconsciously, laying bare his own poetic heart.

Universal Health Care : Fighting Off the Republicans and the Ghost of Milton Friedman
by Dr. Stephen R. Keister

Have no doubts about it, the well disciplined, jackbooted Republicans of the Senate are going to stand firm in support of the Teachings of Milton Friedman! They will oppose government sponsored health care without any reservations. The fact that the United States ranks #26 in health care worldwide will not shake their resolve.

Shoo, Bush, Shoe!
by CommonSense2 Editor

Celebrating the “end of an error”!

Toothless:
by Walter Brasch

The president of the Associated Press (AP) was spewing venom at the Bush-Cheney administration for having turned the Department of Defense into a propaganda machine.

Entries in Elaine’s Journal
by Elaine Kessler
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The cacti were so great in number that they appeared like soldiers marching up parts of the mountains.

Fiat
by Richard O'Connell

A cold look at money for the simple making.

Empathy
by Jack Lindeman

Of bringing harm through mortal heedlessness.

Sub Zero
by Barry Greenawalt

If it were any colder …

Match This for Stupidity
by Walter Brasch

With budgets being pumped up by numerous “sin taxes,” it won’t be long until someone figures out they need not only to card buyers of cigarette lighters, cups, watermelons, and Jello, but that there also needs to be special excise taxes upon these products as well.

The Republicans Have Nothing to Party About
by Rosemary & Walter Brasch

The Republicans wail that the President’s stimulus package is laden with spending proposals that don’t directly attack the recession. However, instead of debating the merits of the package, instead of proposing amendments to add to or subtract from the $819 billion, the Republicans ganged up, voted as a bloc, and placed party loyalty above the needs of the nation.

From the Hudson to the Potomac:
by Walter Brasch
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Let’s hope that President Obama has the ability and the courage to do what is necessary to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States

Obama is a two-faced liar. Aw-RIGHT!
by Greg Palast
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Republicans are right. President Barack Obama treated them like dirt, didn’t give a damn what they thought about his stimulus package, loaded it with a bunch of programs that will last for years and will never leave the budget, is giving away money disguised as “tax refunds,” and is sneaking in huge changes in policy, from schools to health care, using the pretext of an economic emergency.

Quotes To Ponder
by CommonSense2 Editor

Shock Doctrine

“Deforming” the Rules in Harrisburg
by Tim Potts

Urgent Alert from Democracy Rising Pennsylvania - PA House Democrats Propose to “Deform” Rules
When the House resumes session on Tuesday, the Democratic majority will propose new rules that will turn back the clock to the bad old days of the Pay Raise of 2005, the slots gambling law and other stealth lawmaking. A summary - […]

The Infiltration Course
by Jack Lindeman

He knew he wasn’t dead because his body continued to move.

Have It Your Way?
by CommonSense2 Editor

$18,000—that’s the amount of extra cash each and every Burger King employee in America would have received last year if Goldman Sachs (one of the fast-food chain’s largest owners) had shared its bailout billions with rank-and-file workers.