Jews, Zionism, and the Stupidity of Bigotry

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Sunday July 25, 2010 · 7:38 AM PDT

2010/07/25 · 07:38

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

Jews, Zionism, and the Stupidity of Bigotry

I guess I'm going to have to retrace my steps, yet again. Last week I reprise an article on Zionism (Maybe I'm Dumb, but Could Somebody Please Tell Me the Difference Between Zionism and Racism?). Due to a response to the article by a young Black man the first time it ran, I found it necessary to write a follow-up article the following week. That seems to be necessary once again:

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Thursday July 22, 2010 · 1:44 PM PDT

2010/07/22 · 13:44

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

Maybe I'm Dumb, but Could Somebody Please Tell Me the Difference Between Zionism and Racism?

I'm about to do something that I generally make it a point to avoid - discuss the collective nature of White folks. The reason I make it a point to avoid this subject is because I don't want to add to the disinformation disseminated by many Black racists (oh yes, racists come in Black too) that there is something more intrinsically evil in White people than there is any other racial group.

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Monday July 19, 2010 · 10:58 AM PDT

2010/07/19 · 10:58

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse(CARMA): It's Time to Fight Back

It is time for poor and Middle-class workers to start fighting back. The corporate community has become increasingly prone to take shortcuts on safety, create hostile work environments, undercutting and even stealing wages from gainfully employed workers in the name of grossly obscene profits.

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Thursday July 15, 2010 · 5:27 AM PDT

2010/07/15 · 05:27

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

Wake up, Mr. President - The GOP has Launched a Jihad Against America

We all know you're a nice guy, Mr. President, but this is a seminal moment in American history. The Republican Party has revealed themselves to be the American Taliban. They're inciting insurrection, protecting corporate corruption, denying unemployed Americans subsistence, and they threaten to cripple the nation as a whole with their irresponsible use of the filibuster. The Republican agenda is to keep America ignorant and miserable at any cost. So at this point we don't need nice, we don't need bipartisanship, and we don't need a diplomat. What we need at this point in our history is a Commander-in-Chief to lead us in the fight against Republican tyranny. So we need to suck it up and "fix bayonets," sir.

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Sunday July 11, 2010 · 1:56 PM PDT

2010/07/11 · 13:56

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

A Thief is a Thief - Even When They Work for the Government

This article started out as a letter to Inspector General David C. Williams of the United States Postal Service. Then it occurred to me that the travesty of justice that's described below is much too serious to be dealt with as a single incident. This is a growing and systemic issue that is so blatant and egregious that I'm sure the OIG is well aware of it. It is also an issue that is such a looming threat to the American people that I decided it needed to be dragged into the light of day.

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Saturday July 10, 2010 · 5:31 PM PDT

2010/07/10 · 17:31

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

Postal Service Gets Break, Union Officials Get Paid, And Workers Get the Shaft - Again

The following report comes directly from an audit by the Office of Inspector General. It was released on July 1, 2010. Further comment is not required. It speaks for itself:

"We also found that union representatives received excessive payments from grievance settlements. Union representatives in four districts (Colorado/Wyoming, Alabama, Mid-America, and Capital) were involved with the allocation of class-action grievance settlements for six grievances that resulted in union representatives receiving payments that were significantly more than other members of the class. Specifically, union representatives received $33,447 (or 24 percent) of $141,639 in settlements for these six grievances. One union representative in the Mid-America District received as much as 35 percent of a grievance settlement, while other payees received less than 1 percent.

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Friday July 09, 2010 · 5:51 PM PDT

2010/07/09 · 17:51

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

GOP Stumbles Over 'Homeboy' Steele - Again

The national media has seized upon yet another Michael Steele gaffe. This time he's caught on camera suggesting that the war in Afghanistan is now President Obama's war. The statement is troubling for the GOP on so many levels that it would take an entire article just to explain it, but that's not the point of this article.

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Friday March 12, 2010 · 8:00 AM PST

2010/03/12 · 08:00

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

Is there a Method to Liz Cheney's Madness?

Many observers have found Liz and Dick Cheney's fervent crusade to ensure that President Obama define terrorists as "enemy combatants," and the fight against terrorism as a "war" on terrorism quite curious. Why would a former vice president break the long established tradition of fading into the woodwork to engage in a silly debate over semantics? Now we also have his daughter, Liz Cheney, attacking standards set down by the United States Constitution guaranteeing due process and equal protection under the law. Liz Cheney has now branded attorneys who defended 'alleged terrorists' the "Al Qaeda 7," and she's calling the United States Department of Justice - that's simply carrying out the prescription set down by the United States Constitution - "The Department of Jihad." Could there possibly be a reasonable explanation behind such radical behavior? I think there is.

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Monday March 08, 2010 · 3:31 AM PST

2010/03/08 · 03:31

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

Mr. President: By Refusing to Look Back, You're Jeopardizing What Lies Before Us

I undoubtedly have neither the information nor wisdom to question the vast majority of your presidential decisions. But it takes neither classified information, nor wisdom, to question your decision to "move forward and not look back" regarding the Bush administration's actions leading this nation into the Iraq War, and the alleged war crimes committed thereafter.

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Tuesday March 02, 2010 · 5:23 PM PST

2010/03/02 · 17:23

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

Would Tavis Smiley's 'Black Agenda' Help the Black Community,
or Bring America to its Knees?

I want to begin this column with an apology. I went completely ballistic in my last column (Urban Comedy: Tavis Smiley - A Crab Determined to Reach Beyond His Grasp). Although I feel that it was with good cause, a cooler head convinced me that even though he may agree with my sentiment, by indulging my need to rant, I did both the readers, and the publications that provide me with a platform to keep the public informed, a gross disservice, and I agree.

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Friday February 26, 2010 · 2:37 PM PST

2010/02/26 · 14:37

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

Urban Comedy: Tavis Smiley, A Crab Determined to Reach Beyond His Grasp

Well, he's at it again, people. In spite of the fact that President Obama has saved the nation from a second Great Depression, responsible for getting a stimulus bill passed that has saved tens of thousands of jobs, is currently struggling to reconcile a jobs bill in congress, and is hard at work trying to get a 'New Deal' for the American people in health-care reform, Tavis Smiley seems to still be stuck on stupid in a groundless, and needlessly divisive criticism of President Obama.

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Monday February 22, 2010 · 6:30 AM PST

2010/02/22 · 06:30

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

The Day America Outlawed Democracy

The time is past due for America to start connecting the dots regarding our political establishment. It has become increasingly clear that we've reached a political crisis in this country, but contrary to what we're being led to believe, the major division in country is no longer between liberals and conservatives, but rather, the American people and those we've elected to represent us.

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