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Billy Wharton is a freelance journalist whose March 2009 article in the Washington Post entitled "Obama's No Socialist. I Should Know." received international attention. Since then, he has published numerous articles on the challenges of health care reform, war and peace and on the need for socialist economics. Billy is a resident of the Bronx, New York and hopes to provide a critical voice of dissent to Examiner.com readers.

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Bloomberg’s Dilemma: What if the Numbers Don’t Work?

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

This week, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg came face-to-face with a thoroughly frightening notion. What if the numbers do not work? What if the reality...
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Puppies Defeat Saints at Socialist Super Bowl Party

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Last night the third installment of the Socialist Super Bowl Party was held in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and it, once again, lived up to its billing....
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Death of Magic in the NYC Subways

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 · 1 comment

The magic of the NYC subway system is dying. An important piece of it perished last week as in independent contractor mounted a ladder to make...
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Obama’s State of the Union: Year One of a Corporate Presidency

Friday, January 29th, 2010

From the start, Barack Obama’s presidency has seemed like one big public relations campaign. His State of the Union address did little to...
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Reading Dr. King in the Age of Obama - Why We Can’t Wait

Albert Boutwell’s election as Birmingham, Alabama’s mayor in 1963 might have signaled the end of the modern civil rights movement. As a...
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Does Nuremberg Matter? American Military Ethics in the Age of Empire

Qualifying as an American hero has always been a slippery proposition. Slave owners such as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington are recognized for...
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Hipster Culture Visits the North Bronx

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A little yellow creature appeared at the Pelham Bay Park Public Library on Friday. This creature claimed that he was from the sun, but at least one...
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Next Holiday Season – Hold the Meat!

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For years I never thought twice about the contents of the holiday dinner table. Turkeys, hams, and roasts were necessary parts of any holiday meal....
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Healthcare Bill a Nightmare Before Christmas

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Call it the nightmare before Christmas or Santa’s lump of healthcare coal. Either title captures the disastrous qualities of the healthcare...
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As Jazz Defeat Nets, Fans Talk Turkey

I went to the New Jersey Nets game last night. No, this is not some Roman Catholic ritual of confession--just an admission that I am both slightly...
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