Always Question Authority

One of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority. ~ Hitchens

The Story of Your Enslavement

Posted on 10.22.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

Jesus Returns!

Posted on 10.22.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

Plaza Cleaners of Portland, Oregon Should Be Given A Medal

Posted on 10.22.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

Give them kudos! Plaza Cleaners, 909 NW Everett St. in Portland, Oregon

On Weed: Dazed And Confused No More

Posted on 10.21.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

The American experience with prohibition of alcohol proved that we are capable of learning from our mistakes. The experience with prohibition of marijuana proves that we are also capable of doing just the opposite
. . . This week, the Gallup organization reported that fully 50 percent of Americans now think marijuana should be made legal. This is the first time since Gallup began asking in 1969 that more Americans support legalization than oppose it.
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Bolivia Scraps Controversial Highway Plan

Posted on 10.21.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

Protesters camp out in front of the government palace to
protest against the construction of the highway [Reuters]

President Morales cancels plans to build highway through a nature reserve after sustained protest from Amazon Indians . . . Morales did not abandon the idea of a highway through Bolivia linking Brazil with the Pacific coast, but said on Friday it would no longer cut through the pristine Isiboro-Secure Indigenous Territory National Park, or TIPNIS.
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Quote: Michael Parenti

Posted on 10.21.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

Michael Parenti, Ph.D., (born 1933)
Political Scientist, Historian, Author, Lecturer, and Culture Critic

U.S. commitments are not to the ordinary people of other lands, but to the privileged reactionary factions that are most accommodating to Western investors . . . right-wing government maintains the existing privileged order of the free market, keeping the world safe for the empowered hierarchies and wealthy classes of the world.

Jon Bon Jovi’s charity restaurant opens in NJ

Posted on 10.21.2011 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

In three decades as one of the world’s biggest rock stars, Jon Bon Jovi has eaten in some of the world’s best restaurants, savoring the best food the planet has to offer.

Yet there’s no place he’d rather have dinner than The Soul Kitchen, a “pay-what-you-can” restaurant he and his wife Dorothea established in a former auto body shop near the Red Bank train station in central New Jersey.
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