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Darlene Love is a genuine American musical icon. With her powerful singing leads, she began her career in 1959 during the glory days of rock & roll girl groups. She caught the attention of Phil Specter and almost immediately began recording the most popular records of that 1962-1963, era including enormous hits like “He’s A Rebel”, written by Gene Pitney,” Wait Til My Bobby Gets Home”, “ Today I Met The Boy I’m Going To Marry”,” The Da Doo Ron Ron”, “ He’s Sure The Boy I Love”, “Why do Lovers Break Each Others Hearts?”, “Not To Young To Get...

Industrial globalization has contributed to the initiation of shockingly cheap offshore product production in places like China, which surpasses Mexico’s deplorable low cost labor status. Mexico, because of its close geographic proximity to the United States, has been particularly targeted by U.S. industry for wage-slavery and consequential human rights violations. Ross Perot, who opposed NAFTA and ran against Bill Clinton for President, said that the “Giant Sucking Sound, would be the jobs heading south to Mexico.” NAFTA has been a disaster for the working people and the communities in which they live in all three nations. Today we clearly see...

Love Canal was not a one-time aberration. The 1997 National Research Council’s estimate that the cost of cleaning up the thousands of known contaminated U.S. sites at that time could take 75 years and cost $1 trillion. In 2002 the EPA cited General Motors and Ford as two of the top 100 corporate air polluters. A March 12, 2000 information sheet released by Stanford University stated that GM’s Delphi facility in Indiana released 603,900 pounds of toxic chemicals into the environment in 1994 alone. The sheet also said that GM discharged more than 1,100 tons of volatile organic compounds in...

Top UAW officials preach that all of labor’s problems are the fault of Republicans. They are tightly connected to the Democratic Party. When Dick Armey, Chairman of Freedom Works, talks of Michigan’s Democratic Governor Granholm’s appalling economic record for Michigan, he brings up Michigan’s unemployment rate, which is the worst in the nation. Under Granholm, hard-pressed Michigan tax payers doled out $40,000 in government funds to the Triangle Foundation. Gary Glenn, Michigan’s American Family Association President, said this is subsidizing a homosexual activist group hostile to the values of most Michigan families. They are a group who campaigned against protecting...

It has long been a community concern about the toxic waste that auto and other factories emit, but consider for a moment how much more potent these toxic chemicals, solvents and substances have been at ground zero for the workers and retirees who spent decades working with and closely around them. Since autos were first produced more than a century ago, workers have been exposed for long periods of time to a vast chemical soup of health hazards unique to building those vehicles. Those hazards included breathing paint vapors and solvents, the production and plating of die cast parts, welding...

The assault against auto retirees, both blue-collar and white-collar, by the very powers that should be protecting them, is a betrayal and a cultural tragedy. It is easy to make an honest case that auto retirees’ healthcare benefits are being collectively stolen from them, when they need them the most. It is interesting that many of the insulated duplicitous governmental politicians, who have been using their political pulpits to crush the auto retirees’ healthcare benefits, were the same politicians campaigning for healthcare for all Americans in the elections just a few short months ago. These are the politicians running our...

I began to notice an unusually large number of people dying of cancer at a young age. I began to collect death certificates of our members and began my own study. Some had noticed rodents in the plant with large cancerous tumors protruding out of them. Hundreds of widows and family members came to the local union looking for answers. These family members were desperate. Do I have any rights? Who will provide for my family? One young widow with three children came to me asking if she and her children could receive her husband’s pension as survivors. Her husband...

In the six short years since UAW President Ron Gettelfinger took office, the nation has come to loath blue-collar autoworkers. Past UAW president and founding father, Walter Reuther, was a principled labor leader of vision. Reuther had a backbone and refused to become a corporate puppet. The companies and nation thrived, the middle class expanded and the world respected autoworkers and copied the responsible contracts resulting from Reuther’s tenure. Walter never apologized for his workers making a decent wage, never betrayed his retirees and always said that you could tell the quality of a union leadership by how they treated...

Barack, you are an unproven smooth talking, ultra-liberal idealist loved by Oprah and the liberal press. More then the Republicans, your Democratic Party has been on fire for me. It behooves me to deliver a personalized missive expressing my bottomless support and offer you a few overall observations prior to the “2008” Presidential Election. As your delusional, lying, confusing sidewinder from the Garden of Eden, it gives me the quivering fits how many clever wing-nut Christian groups and conservative bloggers attack us. In America there are about 80 million evangelicals. Your caustic remarks in San Francisco about how America’s flag...

We Catholics find ourselves at a very interesting point in history. Once again, presidential elections are upon us and we represent the largest bloc of religious voters at an estimated 25% of America ’s registered voting population. Therefore, Senators Obama and McCain are out to get our votes. On the one hand, signatories of Roman Catholics for Obama ’08 claim, “We are real, honest-to-goodness, practicing Catholics who embrace and call attention to Catholic Social Teaching…” This is unbelievable given Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) record, especially his infamous crusade against the Illinois version of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which was...

Seth Kleg is a Hollywood casting director who has founded The Christian Studio to produce films that have a positive moral vision. The end result will be a nonstop stream of excellent movies released with budgets ranging from $100,000 to $25,000,000. There are a lot of good people working in the motion picture industry who are working to make it better. However, the messages in most of the PG-13 and R-rated movies reflect a total disregard for God and His commandments. The numerous times God’s name is taken in vain, the use of four-letter words, exploitation of sex and violence,...

America, the once Christian principled light of the world, is losing its prominence because of its appalling top political leadership, who are failing the Bible test. Many of these politicians are leading the nation further down the seedy and slippery slope to immorality and economic failure. In the big picture, Americans have been overtaxed, seen their nation’s prosperity wasted away and witnessed the middle class employment opportunities of our next generation of workers shipped off shore due to these politicians’ pacts and deals. As America staggers backwards,our competitors are replacing our world eminence by becoming the new world order. Most...

Ralph Nader is one of the few people ever born in America who deserves to wear the badge of “Great American”. His courageous life as a political activist, humanitarian, environmentalist and America’s consumer rights advocate is legendary. Ralph announced on NBC’s Meet The Press Sunday, February 24 that he was running as a third party presidential candidate in 2008. He cited that because of the protracted Iraq War, the wobbly economy, taxes, powerful lobbyists and other key issues that Americans are disenchanted with both the Republican and Democratic parties and need another voice. Instantaneously, when Ralph declared his candidacy, the...

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I ran across the Phelps clan a few years ago when they were protesting a church I was attending in Wichita Kansas. I had never heard of the group before and I suddenly found myself within swinging distance without any context of who I was dealing with. I assumed from their colorful “GOD HATES FAGS” signs that they were a pro-homosexual advocacy group possibly angry about a bible lesson on Sodom and Gomorrah that they might have heard at the church that did not fit their lifestyle. I later found that the Westboro Baptist Church was a small, crazy, dysfunctional...

What is the definition of hypocrisy? Is America being poisoned with the “Biblically incorrect” cancer of double talking “politically correct” politicians? Gary Glenn is the President of the American Family Association of Michigan. Personally speaking, as an individual citizen aside from the AFA Mr. Glenn has put together an eye-opening information piece relative to Gov. Romney’s “faith in America” speech. …………………………………………………………. Gary Glenn, for purposes of identification only, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, offers the following comments prior to Gov. Romney's "Faith in America" speech...CONTACT: Gary Glenn 989-430-0652 (cell) Americans concerned about protecting life and traditional family...

MW:Our manufacturing middle class is evaporating. It seems like the corporations, our government and even the workers’ own unions are failing them. Negotiations are now under way to secure a new auto pact expiring in September with Detroit’s automakers. What is happening here? What does this mean for workers, retirees and the next generation? WH: It would be fair to say that if Walter Reuther were still leading this once great union, it would not be in the shape it is today. The noose is seriously tightening on UAW workers in this country. The 2-tier wage system will eventually be...

Where have all the Christians gone? I wish I were writing this paper to give you an answer to that question. I feel that it is one of the most important questions of the day. What prompts me to ask the question? One thing is the dismal approval performance rating that our news media shows for President Bush. Obviously many Christians are negative about his performance. Christians should be 100% positive to give him support. He is not ashamed of his salvation and refers to it frequently. That makes me believe that he regularly prays to Almighty God asking for...

As a growing debate builds over a Democrat inspired push to resurrect the Fairness Doctrine and artificially decrease the market demand for conservative radio, there may be no better time to pay homage to one of the stalwart radio personalities that personifies the conservative dominance of the airwaves. That individual is Rush Limbaugh. I have been a Rush Limbaugh listener for many years. As my daily schedule has altered, as does often happen in life, I would listen to different segments of the daily program and enjoy the creative educational environment that Rush seems to create with ease and grace....

In America the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer and our middle class are being methodically eliminated. Corporations, powerful unions and governmental forces are betraying and sacrificing middle class workers. Retirees and workers have given their accumulated experience, knowledge, wisdom and skills to advance these American based multi-national companies and build the American dream for us all. They have worked tirelessly to improve the quality of the products they produce and have consistently improved their efficiency.UAW retirees have recently seen UAW top officials use questionable legal means to steal the promised retirement health care benefits that were...