About Jim Vogas
Texas A&M Aggie, Retired aerospace engineer, former union member, Vietnam vet, Demcratic Party organizer, husband and father.
McCain Opposed Equal Pay for Women Senate Bill – Republican Sen. John McCain, campaigning through poverty-stricken cities and towns, said Wednesday he opposed a Senate bill that sought equal pay for women because it would lead to more lawsuits. The … Continue reading →
U.S. Incarceration Rate is Six Times the World Average – The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Indeed, the United States leads the world in … Continue reading →
Colorado State Rep. Douglas Bruce Calls Mexican Migrant Workers Illiterate Peasants – State Rep. Douglas Bruce’s derogatory remarks Monday about Mexican migrant workers could leave him facing a second censure penalty or worse. “We don’t need 5,000 more illiterate peasants … Continue reading →
Anti-Evolution Movie Attempts to Link Belief in Evolution to Nazi Genocide – Comedian and former Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein’s new documentary movie, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, will not open until this Friday, but it has already been widely blasted for … Continue reading →
Merck Drugs Used Ghostwriting to Make it Appear That Research Done by its Employees or Contractors was the Work of Scientists – Merck was using what the JAMA authors call “guest authorship and ghostwriting” to make it appear that research … Continue reading →
Conservative Pat Buchanan Predicts “Fifty-fifty chance of U.S. airstrikes on Iran by October” – On the McLaughlin Group show, Pat Buchanan said, “The president said that Iran better not make the wrong choice. We’re looking at 140,000 troops there by … Continue reading →
Taco Bell, Wal-Mart, NRA Hired ‘Black Ops’ Company That Targeted Environmental Groups – A private security firm managed by former Secret Service officers spied on myriad environmental organizations throughout the 1990s and the year 2000, thieving documents, trying to plant … Continue reading →
Top Bush Aides Approved Interrogation Tactics According to Report – President George W. Bush’s most senior advisers approved “enhanced interrogation techniques” of top al-Qaeda suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency, ABC News reported. ABC reported that the so-called “principals” discussed … Continue reading →
Once Again, McCain Confuses Sunnis with Shiites – Last month, the Arizona senator got a whisper in his ear from Sen. Joe Lieberman, after he said that Iran was providing aid to Al Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni group. Iran, … Continue reading →
John McCain Gets Facts Wrong on Iraq Two More Times This Past Sunday – Appearing on Fox News Sunday, the Arizona Republican stated that the recent flair up of violence in Basra was ended after Shiite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr declared … Continue reading →
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