LEARNING THEY’LL HAVE TO PAY MORE TOSTAY IN SCHOOL, CALIFORNIA COLLEGE STUDENTS EXPRESS THEIR RAGE.

by Emily Kelley for HUSTLER Magazine – June 2010

Uncertainty continues to reign at California’s public colleges and universities. Many students may drop out—but not because they loathe lectures, writing term papers and boning up for exams.

In July 2009, after lawmakers had slashed education budgets statewide by hundreds of millions of dollars, the California State University and community college systems raised tuition fees 20% and 30% respectively. Then, just before Thanksgiving, the University of California announced a 32% tuition-fee increase for all ten UC campuses. Of course, students were outraged, and they demanded to be heard.

Back in July, hundreds of CSU students gathered outside the chancellor’s office in Long Beach to adamantly voice their disapproval. By late November, UC students were echoing their sentiments.

“We did have several protests which were organized over Facebook and had quite large turnouts,” recalled Jon Seibert, 21, a chemical engineering major at UC San Diego. There were also walkouts, sit-ins and even building takeovers at several other UC campuses, including Berkeley, Santa Cruz and UCLA. But it’s.....

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from HUSTLER Magazine – July 2010

You have a reason to be angry. You are being screwed. The bankers get bailed out, but the working class is left to fend for itself at a time when jobs are hard to find. But your anger is misdirected.

You are being lied to. It’s the corporations that have brought this about. They have corrupted both the Republicans and the Democrats. Aside from shipping your jobs overseas, corporations want their taxes reduced as a way of further increasing profits. Reduced tax revenue means less money for schools, hospitals, police, roads and everything else we need to keep our country running. The focus of your anger should be not just the government but also the banks and corporations that are looting taxpayer dollars. Your taxes—the taxes of working Americans—have already been cut by the Obama Administration.

It may indeed be time for a revolution. Just make sure you go after the right people.

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Asshole of the Month – from HUSTLER Magazine – June 2010

Is he insane, stupid or just a clever cynic manipulating the public in pursuit of a buck? We think that Glenn Beck, who hosts a syndicated radio talk show and a televised counterpart on Fox News, is all three. Whatever the case, Beck is certainly an ugly, misshapen blob who spews out hate and misinformation that’s poisoning how Americans think and thereby weakening our country.

Still, we can’t help but pity Beck. There’s good reason for his twisted, corrosive mind-set. The poor guy’s childhood was a nightmare: His parents divorced when he was 13, his mother drowned in a boating accident two years later, and his stepbrother committed suicide. The Internet paints an even worse picture, but we choose not to go there and pray, for Beck’s sake, that the rumors aren’t true.

Considering his background, it’s no wonder that Beck is a mess of putrid contradictions and noxious bile. But a person like that should be given medical and psychological assistance. Instead, he’s been elevated to one of the highest rungs of our consumer-driven society: media star. What is it about Americans that makes so many flock to freaks?.....

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THE PRESIDENT AND POLITICIANS WHO SUPPOSEDLY SPEAK FOR THE “LITTLE GUY” HAVE FAILED TO DELIVER WHERE IT MATTERS MOST.

by Robert Scheer
for HUSTLER Magazine – June 2010

So the Democrats lost their much-vaunted“filibuster-proof” majority in the Senate?Well, they’re probably relieved: ScottBrown’s arrival gives them another excuse notto deliver on campaign promises that upsettheir financiers from Wall Street and theFortune 500.

Seriously, the Democrats are not so muchinept or unorganized—as the frequent accusationsfrom frustrated supporters would haveit—as they are simply locked in an impossiblecontradiction: The companies that fund theirpricey TV-ad-driven political campaigns have acompletely different agenda than the actualAmericans who vote for them.

Case in point: The healthcare reform debaclethis past fall highlighted that, when it comesto any progressive legislation that would favorAmericans over corporations, the Democratsare simply unable and unwilling to deliver. Theyfear the bite of Big Business more than thebark of the vox populi. Forget filibusters; this isabout who is paying whom in a form of legitimizedbribery.

Of course, the voters get their punches in.Witness the recent creaming of the President inMassachusetts, where dispirited liberalsallowed Republican Brown to clock the Demswith a stiff right, and the tea bagger triumphantlyentered the Senate. Yet even thoughObama’s opportunistic search for win-win solutionsto our healthcare concerns and our.....

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WHERE WAS THE BLUE-COLLAR COMMUNITY ORGANIZER WHEN TIMOTHY GEITHNER TOLD HIM TO TRUST THE BANKS?

by Robert Scheer
for HUSTLER Magazines – May 2010

What’s up with Barack Obama? I thought this guy had some tough, everyday smarts and, having witnessed life a bit on the mean streets of Chicago, would stand up to the Wall Street big shots who’ve made life so miserable for the little people back in the blue collar communities he once tried to organize. Instead, he got bamboozled by the banking bandits big time and may have fatally sunk his own legacy in the process.

Sure, the President inherited the banking mess rather than helping to create it. That distinction goes to his Republican predecessor George the Second, who fiddled while the financial markets burned. And while the fires raged through the mortgage market, destroying the savings of 15 million families whose homes were suddenly “under water” and in danger of foreclosure, it was Bush who decided to save the bankers and not those they had swindled.

Yet it was Obama who decided to blindly follow Bush’s example and turned to the Democrat toadies of Wall Street who had cooperated in that scam to be his point.....

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THE FEAR OF OFFENDING CERTAIN GROUPS HAS GIVEN THE THOUGHT POLICE LICENSE TO SUBVERT HIGHER EDUCATION.

by Nat Hentoff

from HUSTLER Magazine – May 2010

Long ago, when I was a student at Northeastern University in Boston, a sociology professor—a white guy from South Africa—glared at us as he handed back our essay exams he had just graded. “You’re just giving me back,” he charged, “only what I said in my lectures! When are you going to start thinking for yourselves?”

Never having heard that from a teacher, I thought it was a helluva good teaching moment, and I was ashamed that I’d left out most of my disagreements with him in my paper. But that therapeutic explosion took place before the virus of “political correctness” had infected—and still does—so many of our colleges and universities. Whether liberal or conservative (a minority among the professoriate), there are professors who insist on the validity of only their views on politics, religion or irreligion, sexual proclivities, patriotism and the very meaning of life. As a member of the advisory board of FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), I get to continually see complaints across the country from out-of-step students and even out-of-step.....

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STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE GIVE DEPARTING HEAD COACH LANE KIFFIN A RIOTOUS SEND-OFF

by Bradley Merritt
for HUSTLER Magazine – May 2010

Lane Kiffin’s surprise resignation showed those outside Knoxville just how serious the Big Orange Nation takes its football. As soon as ESPN spread the news he would be succeeding Pete Carroll at the University of Southern California, around 1,000 enraged UT students quickly took to the streets.

Some torched Kiffin’s promotional “It’s Time” T-shirts, and a mattress was set ablaze. The legendary Tennessee Rock was defaced with “Fuck Lane Kiffin” and other derisive slogans. Cops donning riot gear and firefighters rolled in, but campus police—many of whom are Vols fans—had little intention of stopping the mayhem. After his impromptu farewell press conference, Knoxville’s new public enemy number one had to be escorted by lawmen through the heckling crowd gathered outside the Neyland-Thompson Sports Complex.

In the meantime a group of UT football players began to lash out against their former coach. They were understandably angry, in shock and looking for answers. Most of all they were defiant. Tennessee football is a proud program, one steeped in tradition, and players scoffed at the notion that Kiffin was the key.....

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from HUSTLER Magazine – May 2010

Over the past year it has become more than apparent that our government is being held hostage by a small group of incredibly powerful people: Wall Street, multinational corporations and the military-industrial complex. How else can you explain President Obama’s complete betrayal of his campaign pledges? He’s sold out real healthcare reform, escalated America’s wars, maintained Bush-era surveillance and torture—and that’s just for starters.

Obama has discovered that there are two realities—running for President and being President—and that they are not always compatible. If Obama wants to win a second term, he must stand up to the bankers, CEOs and generals.

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WHY IS IT THAT EVERY TIME I TURN ON CNN, FOX NEWS OR MSNBC, THEY’RE ALWAYS CLAIMING TO BE ON TO SOMETHING BIG?

by Alex Bennett
for HUSTLER Magazine – May 2010

While I’m doing my radio show on Sirius XM, we usually have a TV tuned to CNN. More often than not, when I look over at it, there’s a graphic announcing “Breaking News.” But the story it heralds is usually very inane. That’s one of many things wrong with TV news. Because of their need to fill the airwaves 24/7, producers take a small news item and make it into something big. Breaking News: Obama Pardons a Turkey; Breaking News: Balloon Boy Speaks; Breaking News: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Has H1N1.

I often feel like a dog chasing a ball that my master only pretended to throw. I see “Breaking News” and jump to attention. Ninety-nine times out of 100 it amounts to nothing. Television news is becoming a kid who cries “Breaking news!” The words news and breaking have been cheapened. As a result, real news gets obscured.

The “Breaking News!” tag should be reserved for blood, carnage or Joe Lieberman caught in a tryst with a young boy. It.....

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Asshole of the Month from HUSTLER MAGAZINE May 2010

What can you say about Dick Armey? Here’s a piece-ofshit Republican who probably flushed his soul down a toilet bowl when he was still a kid in North Dakota. Did he do it for money? Or was he always the kind of cynical son of a bitch who didn’t give a rat’s ass about anyone but himself?

Money, it seems, has always been a prime motivator for Armey. After earning a Ph.D in economics from the University of Oklahoma, he took a professorship at what is now the University of North Texas. But teaching economics is really no substitute for actually going out into the world and stealing— uh, making—money for yourself. So how might this best be done? Armey must have asked himself.

The obvious answer: politics! Given the level of corruption in government, a young man with no conscience could easily pluck the low-hanging fruit and maybe even plant a few money trees of his own.

Armey was elected to the House of Representatives in 1984 as part of the Reagan Revolution. By 1995 he was House Majority Leader, using that position to throw his friend and benefactor Newt Gingrich under the bus......

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