Past Articles



Below you will find most of the stuff i've ranted about over the years. What starts out as an angry post to some jerks web site sometimes turns into an acceptable article... or not.

Enjoy!

10 Facebook Etiquette Rules For The Justifiably Paranoid
D. VanThournout
Tuesday, February 9th, 2011

Cross Border Soup
D. VanThournout
Tuesday, February 9th, 2011

Bob Vander Plaats: Anti-Civil Rights Hate Monger
By D. VanThournout
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Bradley Manning Is Resolute Because He Is Righteous
by David VanThournout
Thursday, January 27th, 2011

WikiLeak’s Truth Just Lost In This American Noise Machine
by David VanThournout
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

We All Live In A Don't Ask Don't Tell Society
by David VanThournout
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Obama Plays It Cool, American Left Contemplates Suicide
by David VanThournout
Monday, December 20th, 2010

Iowa Congressman Steve King Says Joe McCarthy Was An American Hero
by David VanThournout
Thursday, December 9th, 2010

Obama Caves To Republicans Fighting For Something The Rich Don't Even Need!
by David VanThournout
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

WikiLeaks Not Media? No, Actually CNN, FOX Etc. Is Propaganda
by David VanThournout
Sunday, December 5th, 2010

Peace Is Noisy
by David VanThournout
Sunday, December 5th, 2010

Stephen Moore Suggests Liberals Are Reprehensible For Regarding WikiLeak's Assange A Hero
by David VanThournout
Saturday, December 4th, 2010

Who Will Appoint Iowa’s Next Supreme Court Justices?
by David VanThournout
Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Blue Dogs Feel The Pain
by David VanThournout
Wednesday, November 3rd,d 2010

Dear Susan Estrich – Why I find the petty crime of black and brown (and poor white) people acceptable and the hidden backroom CEO crime of white people not
by David VanThournout
Monday, October 24th, 2010

Cannabis: Strong Medicine For An Ailing Democracy
By David VanThournout
October 24th 2010

David Koch’s Reverse Tea Party
by David VanThournout
Monday, August 30th, 2010

The True Cost of Gasoline
by David VanThournout
June 3rd, 2010

Right Wing Reduced to Dung Flinging Insurance Monkeys
by David VanThournout
August 18th, 2009

Note to Garrison Keillor: "No justice, No Peace"

Mississippi River Dead Zone Grows to Size of New Jersey!

paradise thinly veiled by concrete

"Battlefield Christmas"

East Moline: Future Hog Slaughtering Capital of the World 12-07-05

Flying Insects In Illinois on November 26th?

Pulling Out All The Stops On Global Warming
11-25-05

My letter to Lane Evans on global warming

Darwin Got It Wrong!

Living a life of low emissions

"War, the Peace Movement, the Militarization of society, and the role the "War on Drugs" has played in eroding civil rights in America"--02/17/05--

Democracy is Flat Lining! 01/27/05

Progressives Promoting Censorship? 01/07/05

Transforming our Society, a slow and sometimes agonizing process... 12/26/04

Better the Five Fingers of Freedom than the Single Finger of Dissent! 12/10/04

What's the difference between George Bush and Adolph Hitler? 12/01/04

The Link Between Consumerism and Fascism by D. VanThournout

American Revolution continued... 10/20/04

Now That's Democracy!

Kerry, Bush Cross Paths In the Quad Cities 08/07/04

Fox Network Violates Public Trust

The Roots of Tyranny 

American Politics: A Dish Gone Cold -- 07/11/04

John Kerry: No Cake Walk

Our Claim to Infamy The Rock Island Arsenal

Have we become what we have been taught to despise?

"Nuclear Experts" Slip on Radioactive Banana!

At What Cost? --At what cost to the earth and it's people do we satisfy that inferiority complex with an SUV? They can't be made safe! Our continued gluttony will ultimately be our undoing. Our desires are killing our earth and harming our societies... more

the deprogrammer 1-28-04

Democracy isn't Dead Yet

The Deprogrammer 2-18-04

Paradise Quad Cities, future bio fuel boom town

The Deprogrammer 2-20-04

Americo? or Toss the Tea?

The Pawn Game


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