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Wed - January 17, 2007What $1.2 Trillion Can BuyThe way to come to grips with $1.2
trillion is to forget about the number itself and think instead about what you
could buy with the money. When you do that, a trillion stops sounding anything
like millions or billions.
Posted at 02:56 PM Read More Tue - December 26, 2006Should we have executed Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee?A very thought provoking piece from Sandy Levinson over at
Balkinization. It is brief so I have reproduced it here in full. Please take a
minute to read it.
Posted at 01:46 PM Read More Wed - December 20, 2006Reality check: 95 percent of Americans had premarital sexMore than nine out of 10 Americans, men
and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high
rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that
people were more chaste in the past.
Posted at 05:40 PM Read More Mon - December 11, 2006The Strange Death of Liberal AmericaWhy have American liberals acquiesced in
President Bush’s catastrophic foreign policy? Why have they so little to
say about Iraq, about Lebanon, or about reports of a planned attack on Iran? Why
has the administration’s sustained attack on civil liberties and
international law aroused so little opposition or anger from those who used to
care most about these things? Why, in short, has the liberal intelligentsia of
the United States in recent years kept its head safely below the
parapet?
Posted at 06:19 PM Read More Fri - December 8, 200626 Years Ago Today...."An Unspeakable Tragedy in New York City" Remember Love
Posted at 06:30 PM Read More Tue - December 5, 2006Richest 2% own 'half the wealth'The richest 2% of adults in the world own
more than half of all household wealth, according to a new study by a United
Nations research institute.
Posted at 07:00 PM Read More Thu - November 2, 2006The Corrupting Power of Military-Industrial ComplexRecent kickback scandals involving Rep.
Curt Weldon prove that Congress would do well to remember President Eisenhower's
warning against "unwarranted influence."
Posted at 06:22 PM Read More Sat - October 14, 2006If Only George Bush Had Been AmishThe Amish response to the brutal slaying
of five of their own offspring in an old fashioned, one-roomed school house was
a blueprint for how President George Walker Bush should have responded to the
slaughter of nearly 3,000 of our own citizens in the tragedy of September 11,
2001. The merciful decision to forgive a deranged man who, for whatever reason,
chose to project a self-inflicted sense of hate upon a classroom of nothing but
innocent children was exactly as God would have had it, exactly how he would
have responded if it had been one of his own children who had been slain.
Something like that of “the cross” when his son, Jesus, spoke the
immortal words, “Father forgive them for they know not what they
do!” A message for the ages, one for all of mankind to hear, even to
understand. A reminder that hate might well rule the day, but, in the end, only
love has the genuine capacity to heal a world caught up in the agonizing grip of
pain and suffering.
Posted at 01:20 PM Read More Mon - September 18, 2006A Christian view of war"Pray for our
troops."
Millions of signs and bumper stickers carry the message, and part of me likes it. But part of me keeps waiting for another bumper sticker - the one I still haven't seen. Whether Jesus would drive an SUV, I'm still not sure. Truth is he'd probably ride the bus. Or the subway. But if he had money for a car and didn't give it all away to the hookers and the homeless before he got to the used-car lot, I'm pretty sure that his bumper sticker would say "pray for our enemies." Posted at 10:39 AM Read More Thu - September 14, 2006Lou Dobbs: Patience favors the enemyWhile American troops in Iraq and
Afghanistan are fighting some of the most intense battles of the war against
radical Islamic terrorists, our national debate on the future of the conflict
has descended to platitudes of campaign rhetoric and a pathological, partisan
refusal on both sides of that debate to acknowledge the harsh realities and
difficult choices that confront us.
Posted at 10:20 AM Read More Wed - September 13, 2006What has happened to Christopher Buckley's party?Bob Woodward asked Bush 43 if he had
consulted his father before invading Iraq. The son replied that he had consulted
“a higher father.” That
frisson
you feel going up your spine is the realization that
he meant
it. And apparently the higher father
said, “Go for it!” There are those of us who wish he had consulted
his terrestrial one; or, if he couldn’t get him on the line, Brent
Scowcroft. Or Jim Baker. Or Henry Kissinger. Or, for that matter, anyone who has
read a book about the British experience in Iraq. (18,000 dead.)
Posted at 10:16 AM Read More Tue - September 12, 2006Just thinkingIf the war on terror is really a "struggle
for civilization" itself, as President Bush claimed
last night, why do we have just 130,000 troops in Iraq?
Posted at 10:24 AM Read More Mon - September 11, 2006Tue - August 22, 2006Geneva Conventions Now UniversalThis is a landmark month in the
history of international law: with the accession of the Republic of Montenegro
on August 2, the 1949 Geneva Conventions have become the first international
treaty in modern history to
achieve universal acceptance.
Posted at 01:04 AM Read More Fri - August 18, 2006Why Democracies evolve into DictatorshipsIt took only six years with Bush Jr.
as President to give birth to a new generation of radical political activists,
journalists, and commentators, whose main concerns are subjecting the insane
policies of the President to exposure and condemnation; this, it seems,
constitutes the foundation for nearly the entire realm of real political
opposition in the U.S. The strategy here is limited to educating people about
the destructive policies of the Republicans and hoping that in response, a
protest or political movement will evolve powerful enough to either reform or
displace those in power. Education of course, is absolutely crucial in
transforming any dissident organization into an entity capable of action and
results. However, by focusing only on the policies of the Republicans, without
explaining the larger framework from whence they came, political education is
greatly hindered, limiting the potential for effective action.
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