The Return of the Oubliette - Sado Justice in America

The use of solitary confinement and sensory deprivation and its effect on both humans and on the rule of constitutional law is examined. [ READ ]

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Bolivia's Bill of Rights for Mother Earth

Woodchip discusses Bolivia's new law granting rights to Mother Earth and its radical "un-inversion" of the individualistic, utilitarian paradigm of modern Liberalism. [READ]

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Wiki Witch Hunt Reveals True Face of Government

Woodchips discusses what the witch hunt against WikiLeaks reveals about the Government's plan to reinstate sedition laws by criminalizing the possession of information that puts alleged governmental interests "at risk". [ READ ]

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NIPP & CIKR - Whom the Gods would Destroy

Woodchip Gazette examines the latest, and only significant, Wikileak which indicates the psychotic derrangement of a United States Government which literally knows no bounds and lays claim to the world. [ read ]

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Black Friday and Purple Sunday

Chipsters ponder two incompatible approaches toward the Season. [ read ]

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Woodchips' People Friendly Balance Budget

Chipsters solve the Balanced Budget "problem" without touching a hair off the head of Social Security or Medicare. Chew cud Simpson! [ here ]

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In Remembrance of Armistice Day

Woodchips ponders the meaning and corruption of Armistice Day. [ read ]

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Pope Consecrates Gaudí's Fantasy

Gaudí's Basilica of the Sacred Family is dedicated, 128 years after cornerstone first laid. [ read ]

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Stop Goofing Around

Chipsters have some serious advice for Congress [ here ]

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God's Dachshund, Part VII - Tacit Corrections

The Woodchip Gazette ponders some curious remarks by Pope Benedict on the confusing effects of alternative manifestations of marriage. [ read ]

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Of Probabilities and Punishment

The Woodchip Gazette publishes its long awaited Anti-Endorsement for the upcoming elections. [ read ]

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A Resented Day of Triumph

"Columbus Day" is assessed from an Hispanic perspective. [ read ]

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Terrorism Before the IBM 8088

Chipsters reflect on what it takes to combat terrorism in the Days After the Jackal. [ Read ]

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Bow, Bow to the Daughter in Law Elect

Chipsters discuss the Politically Incorrect response to Tyler Clementi's sad suicide. [ read ]

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God's Dachshund, Part VI - Kulturkampf Redux

Woodchipgazette analyses Pope Benedict's trip to the United Kingdom and his arguments against an "aggressive secularism" that seeks to delimit Church participation in the formulaiton of public policy. [ here ]

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Social Basics

A need to stimulate Obama's socio-economic vision. [here]

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The Devil in the Drone

Progressives miss the real story behind U.S. Border Drones. [ here ]

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Senator Simpson and Bovine Body Parts

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Obambi Tuffs it Out

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Another Pyrrhic Obamacrat Victory

Using blackmail to close party ranks in Colorado [ here ]

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Disconnects Redux

Woodchip Gazette's "Travel Section" examines Eleanor and Michelle's two very different itineraries [ here ]

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WikiLeaks and the Divided Line

Chipsters ponder how it is we "know" things (or don't know them) and fondly remember I. F. Stone's insights and wit [ here ]

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Connecting with Tar Baby & Disconnecting from Reality

The Gazette explains the true imbecility of the Tea Bagger assault on Obama [ here ].

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Mexico's Criminal Revolution

Chipsters ponder the revolution underway in Mexico [ here ]

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Discconnects and the Guilty Conscience

Chipsters ponder the 1 billion dollar disconnect at Toronto [here]

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The Pied Piper of Psychosis

The Gazette reports on the psychosis at work in Israel's increasingly un-hinged attempts to accuse the world for the mistakes of its policies. [here]

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Engineering A Humanitarian Crisis

A relief convey is steaming toward Gaza bringing desperately needed foodstuffs to the imprisoned population. The New York Times does not report on this event because to do so would trigger awareness of that the fact that Israel has embarked on a policy of holding Gazans hostage to hunger. Woodchip reports [ here ]

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New York Times Scoops Pentagon Strategy of Security through Chaos

Woodchipgazette lauds the New York Times for scooping what the war in Iraq (and Af-Pakistan, and Yemen and Georgia and Yugoslavia and ....) is all about. [here]

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Rand, Rachel and the Heart of Atlanta

Woodchip Gazette takes a look back at Ollie's Barbecue, Robinson Crusoe and other arcana of current interest. [ here ]

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Mainstream Media Catches on to Government's Plan to Wreck Your Son's Brain

Two years ago the WoodchipGazette explained how the theological concept of synderesis foretold the psychological "costs" of the Bush (and now Obama) policies of waging "asymmetrical warfare" in far off lands. "Frontline" brings up the rear [here]

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Lies in the Service of Neo Liberal Villainy

The WoodchipGazette examines how the neo-liberal press creates false news in order to discredit and undermine the Catholic Church which offers a spirtitual and social alternative to the atomization and materialization of human existence. [here]

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How the New York Times Wages War on Catholicism

Chipsters dissect how the New York Times manipulates news to wage war on the Catholic Church. [here]

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Easter

Woodchip ponders the paradox of nature [ here ]

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Youth, Happiness & Old Age

Thoughts on a moment [here]
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Auto Reconquista

Hugo Chavez leads an Hispanic American effort to create an international phalanx against U.S. and Canadian hegemony and exploitation. [ here ]

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The Pathos of Plastic Surgery

Chipster & Architect Daniel Liebeskind discuss the questionable art of putting things back the way they were [ here ]

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Obama's State of Obama Speech

Woodchips discusses the State of the Union Address before it happens [ here ]

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Big Food Devours America's Children

A special News and Note takes a brief look at how Big Food is devouring America's children [ here ]

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Bring Back the People's Witan

Woodchips on why the U.S. Senate is a perversion of democracy and needs to be abolished [ here ]

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Promoting Self Alienation

The Gazette discusses the role of the corporate-bagging press in promoting self-alienation. [ here ]

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Vote to Punish & Face the Dawn

The Woodchip Gazette explains why Martha Coakley.... and Barbara Boxer and... every other Democrat officeholder needs to be defeated. [ here ]

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A Dream for Elena

Even chipsters dream [ here ]

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Leader at the Eleventh Hour

On Obama's hard working efforts to hammer out a health bill after the bill was hammered to death [ here ]

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An Apparent Economy

The Gazette discusses the relevance of astronomy to economics and explains how recession means we are becoming richer while getting poorer [ here ]

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A Second Bill of Rights

Latest breaking news on the frontier of human rights [here]

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Fathomable Contexts

Some idle thoughts about Oliver Stone's new documentary putting Hitler, Stalin and miscellaneous monsters into understandable context [here]

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Oh, Those Wacky Keystone Prosecutors

Another "boating accident" in Washington [ here ] as Judge Urbino dismisses the Government's case against Blackwater guards for unauthorized homicide.

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