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Turnipseed: Cell Phones, Texting, and Apps
Znet Article, August, 24 2010
Tom Turnipseed
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It’s all about making money. The more people talk and text, the more money the cell phone industry makes, and the more talking and texting in vehicles the more people die. 2,600 deaths and 330,000 injuries are caused each year by distracted drive...
Turnipseed: Tea Partier, Action Figure, Green Partier
Znet Article, August, 16 2010
Tom Turnipseed
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South Carolina’s US Senate race is a media extravaganza.
Turnipseed: Secrecy Sucks
Znet Article, July, 24 2010
Tom Turnipseed
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Community (IC) has become a monstrous, overlapping hodge-podge of spooks with some 850,000 people having top secret clearances, accordingSince 9/11, a collection of secret intelligence groups called the United States Intelligence to the Washingto...
Turnipseed: Ragheads, Rednecks and Greene Machines; Peculiar Politics in South Carolina
Znet Article, June, 20 2010
Tom Turnipseed
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Peculiar politics in South Carolina is a never ending saga. On June 15, South Carolina Republican State Senator Jake Knotts of Lexington told the South Carolina Senate he is proud to be a redneck and would not resign from the Senate for having ca...
Turnipseed: Sex and Silliness in South Carolina
Znet Article, June, 13 2010
Tom Turnipseed
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In the most stunning upset in South Carolina’s sordid political history, Alvin Greene, unknown and unemployed, defeated Vic Rawl, former judge, legislator, and county council member, by a 59 to 41 percent margin to win the Democratic nomination ...
Turnipseed: Inez Tenenbaum Should Ban War Toys, A Product Posing the Greatest Threat to Our Safety
Znet Article, June, 25 2009
Tom Turnipseed
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Inez Tenenbaum was unanimously approved by US Senators to chair the Consumer Product Safety Commission on June 19. She vowed to ban or toughen standards testing for several consumer products from China, including toys with lead paint.
Turnipseed: Creating Our Own Hell on Earth
Znet Article, November, 28 2007
Tom Turnipseed
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(Columbia, S.C.) Five years ago my wife and I discontinued using our lawn irrigation sprinkler system, now we only water our small vegetable garden. Facing evidence of climate change, we are trying to do our part to save water. With water supplie...
Turnipseed: War Profiteering Corruption from Lexington County to the White House
Znet Article, August, 19 2007
Tom Turnipseed
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War Profiteering Corruption from Lexington County to the White House
Turnipseed: The March Of the Penguins and Enron
Znet Article, September, 19 2005
Tom Turnipseed
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At a recent conference, young Republicans were urged to see the documentary March of the Penguins, according to The New York Times. Conservative film critic Michael Medved said the film is "the motion picture this summer that most passionately a...
Turnipseed: From the Vatican to Neverland
Znet Article, April, 13 2005
Tom Turnipseed
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"He is like a poster child for the sex abuse scandal" said Barbara Blaine in describing Cardinal Bernard Law who gave a memorial mass for Pope John Paul II at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome this week. Ms. Blaine is a U. S. Catholic who was i...
Turnipseed: A Scofflaw in the White House: Undermining Respect for Law
Znet Article, March, 15 2005
Tom Turnipseed
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The Ides of March are upon us and, much like the situation with Julius Caesar in ancient Rome, we have an imperialist, authoritarian chief resident in the White House. Please understand, I do not believe President Bush will be physically attacked ...
Turnipseed: Democratic Elections?
Znet Article, February, 05 2005
Tom Turnipseed
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Enthused by the turnout in the Iraq elections last Sunday, a friend of mine wondered if democratic elections in Iraq and the Middle East would likely bring about a pro-American result. I told him the demands for an end to the U.S. occupation of Ir...
Turnipseed: International Criminals
Znet Article, September, 17 2002
Tom Turnipseed
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Saddam Hussein called the hand of George W. Bush and put a stumbling block in front of U.S. war plans by informing U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan that he would allow U.N. weapons inspectors to immediately return to Iraq without condition. The W...
Turnipseed: Crime in the Suites Enabled by Political Corruption Causes a Crisis in
Znet Article, July, 01 2002
Tom Turnipseed
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The continuing revelations of corrupt corporate governance enabled by political campaign contributions is deepening daunting doubts about the credibility of U.S. equity markets and political leadership. The corruption is creating a widening crisis...
Turnipseed: Sex Among The Sacred
Znet Article, May, 31 2002
Tom Turnipseed
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An evolving sex scandal involving dozens of Roman Catholic priests and their often young parishioners has the media focusing on sexual predators concealed for decades within religious institutions. Complete with cover-ups by higher-ups, the distur...
Turnipseed: A Travesty of Justice
Znet Article, May, 07 2002
Tom Turnipseed
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Governor Jim Hodges of South Carolina turned "thumbs down"and allowed the State of South Carolina to kill an innocent man. In doing so he lied about crucial facts to make himself look good to the public as a tough-on-crime candidate for reelection...
Turnipseed: Latin America's Dilemma: Otto Reich's Propaganda is Reminiscent of the Third Reich
Znet Article, April, 18 2002
Tom Turnipseed
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The Bush administration is engaging in damage control for their questionable involvement in the failed 2 day coup against the democratically elected government of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Alarmingly, the ominous Otto Reich is emerging a...
Turnipseed: War Is Wrong
Znet Article, March, 06 2002
Tom Turnipseed
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I knew war was terribly wrong when I saw pictures of children like myself desperately attempting to flee the flames of bombed German cities in newspapers and on the newsreels during World War II. As an eight year old, I identified with the childre...
Turnipseed: Bush Mimics Reagan and the Corporate Stranglehold on U.S. Media Tightens
Znet Article, February, 23 2002
Tom Turnipseed
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Bush rallies America in a perpetual war against "evil ones" and the "axis of evil." Ronald Reagan used the cold war to lambast the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. Their administrations are strikingly similar not only in their use of adjectives,...
Turnipseed: Sheriff Bush Wages War Against Evil To Cover Corporate Corruption Of Government
Znet Article, February, 06 2002
Tom Turnipseed
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In his State of the Union address, George W. Bush played sheriff to a world bedeviled by evil-doers and outlaw nations. It was a cunning cover for the unfolding saga of consummate corporate corruption of American politics, exemplified by Enron's e...
Turnipseed: Dream Defiled
Znet Article, January, 25 2002
Tom Turnipseed
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s words expressing his dream of love, peace, and justice that could transform a suffering world filled with hate, violence, and injustice became awesomely authentic for me as I did research for a talk I made at our King...


