Joey LeMay

Joey LeMay is a former MintPress Staff Writer. He has worked in the newspaper industry as an editor, editorial board member and award-winning editorial writer.

Feds Use Of Warrantless Searches Up Over 600 Percent

(MintPress) – New reports are demonstrating the extent of which the federal government is relying on social networking websites to follow the accounts of users that show “suspicious” activity. And because there are few laws regulating the government’s use of the Internet as an investigative tool, a majority of the online surveillance against individuals is […]

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Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, speaks at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

(MintPress) – New reports are demonstrating the extent of which the federal government is relying on social networking websites to follow the accounts of users that show “suspicious” activity. And because there are few laws regulating the government’s use of the Internet as an investigative tool, a majority of the online surveillance against

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A Welcome Ruling In Calif., But Room For Growth Within Student Protest Factions

(MintPress) – Peaceful student protesters earned a slight victory for their cause when 21 plaintiffs stemming from a pepper spraying incident at the University of California-Davis last November were awarded around $30,000 each. During the incident, students demonstrated against rising tuition costs at the school by interlocking arms and occupying a portion of campus. When campus police […]

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By Joey LeMay
In this Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school's quad in Davis, Calif. (AP Photo/The Enterprise, Wayne Tilcock, File)

(MintPress) – Peaceful student protesters earned a slight victory for their cause when 21 plaintiffs stemming from a pepper spraying incident at the University of California-Davis last November were awarded around $30,000 each. During the incident, students demonstrated against rising tuition costs at the school by interlocking arms and occupying a

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Built Around Narcissism, The Modern Economy Will Remain A Struggle

(MintPress) – What was originally dubbed the “Me” generation – a slang term to describe self-involved qualities of a segment of the baby boomers – is eroding America by becoming a “Me” epidemic, psychologists say. The measurable effects of narcissism are a growing worry in today’s susceptible economy, as short-term thinking and a do-anything attitude […]

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By Joey LeMay
A woman looks at herself in the mirror. (Photo by Helga Weber via Flikr)

(MintPress) - What was originally dubbed the “Me” generation - a slang term to describe self-involved qualities of a segment of the baby boomers - is eroding America by becoming a “Me” epidemic, psychologists say. The measurable effects of narcissism are a growing worry in today’s susceptible economy, as short-term thinking and a do-anything

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Record-Low SAT Scores Provide Case For New Education Philosophies

(MintPress) – The struggling state of education in America has found itself at a new low, as SAT reading scores of high school students hit a four-decade low. The College Board, the SAT’s administrative service, estimates that 57 percent of test takers did not score high enough to indicate college success. College Board President Gaston Caperton […]

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By Joey LeMay
High school juniors try to stay focused as they take the SAT test. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

(MintPress) – The struggling state of education in America has found itself at a new low, as SAT reading scores of high school students hit a four-decade low. The College Board, the SAT’s administrative service, estimates that 57 percent of test takers did not score high enough to indicate college success. College Board President Gaston Caperton

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Former Colombia Workers Sew Mouths Shut To Protest GM

(MintPress) – After nearly two months of protest, workers at the General Motors (GM) Bogota, Colombia, Colmotores plant are continuing with a hunger strike that was implemented on Aug. 1. The workers are calling for GM to compensate employees for serious injuries they suffer while on the job and to provide re-employment services when they are fired […]

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Buried up to his head, a community leader stages a protest at a Catholic Church in poor neighborhood of southern Bogota, Colombia Wednesday, June 12, 2002. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

(MintPress) – After nearly two months of protest, workers at the General Motors (GM) Bogota, Colombia, Colmotores plant are continuing with a hunger strike that was implemented on Aug. 1. The workers are calling for GM to compensate employees for serious injuries they suffer while on the job and to provide re-employment services when they are fired

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DOJ Investigation In NC Could Expose Workings Of AZ Immigration Law

(MintPress) – The highly contested immigration law in Arizona has formally gone into effect, putting into practice legislation that has stoked fears of racial profiling and targeting those based on outward appearance. That scenario has already played itself out over 2,000 miles away from Arizona in North Carolina, where an investigation turned up routine racial […]

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By Joey LeMay
Illegal immigrants prepare to enter a bus after being processed at Tucson Sector U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

(MintPress) – The highly contested immigration law in Arizona has formally gone into effect, putting into practice legislation that has stoked fears of racial profiling and targeting those based on outward appearance. That scenario has already played itself out over 2,000 miles away from Arizona in North Carolina, where an investigation turned up

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Lagging Economy Reignites Gentrification Across Nation

(MintPress) – In 2010, a record 2.9 million properties were foreclosed on as the height of the housing crisis played itself out across America. Two years prior, in 2008, the worst of the economic collapse set in, launching the burst of the housing bubble and sending homeowners scrambling for options. During the first year of […]

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By Joey LeMay
A man walks down a residential Brooklyn street on the site of the proposed $4 billion mega-development Atlantic Yards project in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

(MintPress) – In 2010, a record 2.9 million properties were foreclosed on as the height of the housing crisis played itself out across America. Two years prior, in 2008, the worst of the economic collapse set in, launching the burst of the housing bubble and sending homeowners scrambling for options. During the first year of the downturn, 10

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