Gus Tyler
By Gus Tyler
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News In Hot Pursuit of the Sexy Swingers
Call them the “Sexy 16.” Every four years, some of the most prominent guys in America set out in hot pursuit of these elusive creatures. This year, they are being chased heatedly by two mucho macho hombres by the name of George Bush and John Kerry. Apparently, what makes these 16 so desirable is their…
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News The Benefits of Insurance
Last year, the number of people in the United States without health insurance hit a record-breaking level of 45 million, according to the Census Bureau. Actually, there was a time when no one in the U.S. enjoyed the benefits of “third-party medicine,” the “third party” being an agency that was neither the patient nor the…
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News Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness
The ninth commandment of the Ten Commandments declares, in no uncertain terms: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbors.” We mention this sacred script from the Bible at this time because of its pertinent relevance to one of the nastiest confrontations in the many mean-minded moments in the long history of American political…
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News The President Who Cried Wolf
The recent revelation that the terrorists who were responsible for the September 11, 2001, attacks are still at work and have made their plans to blow up financial institutions across our country has received a strange response. Ordinarily, such a warning, allegedly backed up by documentary evidence, should be a source of widespread concern on…
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Israel News Kerry or Bush: Who’s the Flip-Flopper?
President Bush has charged his Democratic opponent, John Kerry, with being one great big flip-flopper who cannot make up his mind. He points to two cases. As a U.S. Senator, Kerry voted to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. Now he declares that the war was a great mistake. He also…
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News Polluting Piety With Politics
An article on the front-page of the June 3 New York Times was scary. It notes that the Bush campaign is reaching out to thousands of churches around the country to involve them in distributing campaign fliers and registering voters on behalf of the president’s November run. The move makes history. It seems that at…
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News What Was the Real Reason for the War in Iraq?
The report of the the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission) on why and how America was drawn into a war in Iraq compels some critical rethinking. This is no ordinary commission. When it was named, the almost universal feeling was that the commission members were…
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News Putting the Squeeze on Social Security
The Social Security system upon which millions of retired Americans depend for their daily bread is in danger. And it is not due to any inherent faults within the system itself. Indeed, the Social Security system is, by far, the most successful profit-making operation that Uncle Sam ever has run. Created in 1935, the system…
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