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The Progressive Corp. insurance group proved itself a despicable company after it tried to avoid paying $75,000 to the family of a client killed in a car crash and then tried to blame the wreck on her.  The story began with a tragic car accident where Progressive insurance customer,  Kaitlynn Fisher, was killed in a June 2010 [...]

President Obama recently had the Jefferson Koran on display during the White House Ramadan dinner. While the President was accurate when he said, “Of all the freedoms we cherish as Americans, of all the rights that we hold sacred, foremost among them is freedom of religion, the right to worship as we choose. It’s enshrined [...]

Mitt Romney has made the most important decision in his campaign so far by selecting Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan for his running mate.  The questions voters need to be asking themselves are who is this guy and what does he bring to the table.  If you get you news from corporate mainstream media, he doesn’t bring anything for [...]

A friend of mine recently used a quote from Georg Hegel to exemplify passion, “Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”  The problem does not lie in its contents, rather the context.  You see, evil men can passionately speak as well.  The following quote could be a powerful message of good will and [...]

1984′s “Red Dawn” is getting a makeover with a new enemy and EMP’s. The original film is a classic which demonstrates what made America great: raw individualism and American resourcefulness.  The Dan Bradley film starring Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson and Isabel Lucas, follows the story of a group of teenagers looking to save their town from an [...]

The Democratic party has been unrelenting attacking Mitt Romney’s record with the private equity firm Bain Capital aiming to keep the Republican candidate on the defensive and more importantly to shift the focus from Barack Obama’s economic record.  The President is attacking Romney and his Republican allies for pursuing what he brands as outdated and a policy of discredited economic [...]

The United States Postal Service endured its first-ever default, failing to submit a required $5.5 billion payment for future retirees’ health benefits.  This unprecedented lapse prompts new questions about the fate of the Postal Service as its financial situation spirals ever out of control, and adds to the list of problems Congress has been so far unable [...]

Mitt Romney is taking some heat for declaring Jerusalem to be the capital of the Jewish state of Israel.  I did not comprehend the supposed gaff.  I recognize that the American people voted (through their Congressmen) to move the Embassy of the United States in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, no later than May 31, 1999.  The Jerusalem Embassy [...]

I am sure everyone has come across the latest flash mob viral video traversing the web.  It is pretty frightening, and seems to be a growing trend of organized looting and random acts of violence.  In this case, a  group of about 20 teenage hooligans walked into a Wicker Park store and helped themselves to more than [...]

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument, built by a culture that left no written records, located in the English county of Wiltshire.  Many aspects of Stonehenge remain subject to debate and the structure remains one of the mystery’s of the ancient world.  What would future archeologists think if they unearthed the giant baby head that was on display [...]