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Impeach Bush now
Even a month ago, I was content to let the electoral system punish President George W. Bush for his incompetence in prosecuting the war in Iraq. Let him deal with more Democrats than he bargained for after the 2006 midterm elections, I thought. That would sufficiently punish him for his failures; anything more would set a dangerous precedent discouraging future presidents from launching big endeavors that might not work.
article tags: impeach, bush, president, white house, iraq, torture, nsa, wiretap, constitution, freedom, liberty, privacy, republican, democrat, interrogation, politics, precedent, machiavelli
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Why Are Politicians Corrupt?
Most politicians bend the laws of the land and steal money or solicit bribes because they need the funds to support networks of patronage. Others do it in order to reward their nearest and dearest or to maintain a lavish lifestyle when their political lives are over.
But these mundane reasons fail to explain why some officeholders go on a rampage and binge on endless quantities of lucre.
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Heal Our Republic: Change Our Electoral System
Consider the presidential election system we have today: Every state has a number of electors, equal to their amount of representatives and senators, who vote for the President of the United States. In most states, every elector goes to the candidate who achieves the most popular votes, regardless of his margin of victory. This means:
1. Presidential candidates have little reason to campaign to the whole country.
article tags: reform, election, popular vote, electoral college, president, senate, constitution, amendment, plurality, winner-takes-all, candidate, campaign
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Gun Control Will Solve Nothing
Statistics from the National Federation of State High School Associations reveal that, in 1999, 15 students perished while playing in high school football games. This fact received little to no coverage in the national media. Angry parents did not parade into Washington, D.C., in order to demand stricter regulation of high school football. Politicos feigning intense anguish did not bemoan football’s domination of most learning institutions’ sports programs.
article tags: gun control, guns, nra, death
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America the Narcissist
The majority of worldwide respondents to the last two global Pew enter surveys (in 2002 and 2006) regarded the United States as the greatest menace to world peace - far greater than the likes of Iraq or China. Thinkers and scholars as diverse as Christopher Lasch in "The Cultural Narcissist" and Theodore Millon in "Personality Disorders of Everyday Life" have singled out the United States as the quintessential narcissistic society.
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" The Failure is Sundered Within"
The failure is sundered within each of us, it festers as blame to others, a manifestation of the shame that belongs not to ourselves but of the participants of a deadlier game. Yet innately the affectation begins with our own visceral manumission of guilt, and sadly, empirically lies buried in our own personal failings.
We ponder all that which seems inherently wrong.
article tags: politics, op-ed, philosophy, republican, democrat
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Prohibition's Other Ending Remembered On April 7
While Prohibition's repeal came on December 5, 1933, American brewers celebrate the end of that era with "Brew Year's Eve" on April 7. It seems the country's brewers were back in business on this earlier date, when Americans enjoyed beer as their first legal drink in 12 years.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's support for repeal helped him win the 1932 presidential election.
article tags: prohibition's other ending remembered on april 7
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On the Nature of Evil
In psychological terms, evil is an aberration of the ego. An evil ego has a strong desire to dominate other egos. An evil person knows that terror is the most effective way to dominate other people because terror induces incapacitating fear. People who are stricken with fear cannot take effective action to defend themselves and while they are in that state, an evil person can do anything they want to do to them.
article tags: evil, psychology, philosophy, spirituality, politics, united states, united nations, ego, free will, terror, torture, nazis
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“Blood Extravasation: Israel’s Journey to the Precipice of Nowhere”
Western civilization’s lone bastion in the Middle East has lost sight of its holistic long-term visage, and is behaving like a fracturalized cornered animal, lashing at all within its grasp. Israel fails to remember Chaim Weizmann’s precursor to entering Palestine, an inclusive benefice for both Palestinian and Israelite, while Hezbolla solidifies its political gains by building hospitals, schools, and sadly, but historically predictable, terrorism.
article tags: politics, commentary
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Islamic Militancy – Seed for the Next Dark Ages
We teach our collegians well about the period known as the dark ages but do we thoroughly explain what brought on this horrible period across the globe? With little fanfare the answer to that question is an unequivocal no.
Let’s do the math here. The marriage of civil and ecclesiastical power is without dispute the singular cause of the horrors of the dark ages.
article tags: islam, dark ages, body politic, indonesia, central sulawesi, pope, muslim, iran, iranian, motamdi, militant muslims, christian, catholic, religion, constition, governing religion, apostasy, united states, news, bbc news, bbc, jesus christ, prosecuted, persecuted, christian books, president, presidents, religious preference, islamic state, execution, beheaded, civilized
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Forget Politically Correct – Check out Politically Ignorant
In August of 2006 CNN News conducted a poll that was meant to see how the average American viewed the Hezbollah. The result would leave anyone with an ounce of political savvy in a state of disbelief.
The poll concluded that forty seven percent of those polled think Hezbollah is friendly toward America. Leaving aside the generally accepted idea that our allies’ enemies are our enemies you’ve got to wonder if those polled have a clue.
article tags: hezbollah, muslim, beirut, israel, marines, iran, super power, 9/11, middle east, cnn, cnn news, news, polled, poll, politically correct, complacency, u. s. embassy, embassy, embassy annex, israeli border, sucide bombers, ayatollah khomeini, ostrich, ignorant, political, politically ignorant
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Television Stations and Freedom of Expression
Thank goodness for the Internet. The best thing to happen to freedom of expression in a long time allows for voices to be heard, and necessary voices of dissent. You'll no longer here it on commercial T.V. You won't get it from the major news channels, and you certainly won't get it from that 'fair and balanced' channel otherwise known as Fox.
It seems that since a few of the intellectual elites gobbled up all the remaining independent stations and turned them into government lap-dogs, that you hardly hear a voice of dissent anymore.
article tags: media, freedom, television, internet, politics
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The Exclusionary Conscience
The self-identity of most nation-states is exclusionary and oppositional: to generate solidarity, a sense of shared community, and consensus, an ill-defined "we" is unfavorably contrasted with a fuzzy "they". While hate speech has been largely outlawed the world over, these often counterfactual dichotomies between "us" and "them" still reign supreme.
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The Killer For Our Country
Several years ago Gillette relocated their manufacturing to China because the cost of labor over there is so much less. They are also the makers of Duracell. Because of this thousands of US workers lost their source of income. Wal-Mart has been buying factories in china because they are figuring that their cost will go down and yet their profits will rise.
article tags: star trek, gene rodenberry, outsourcing, immigration, economic, politic, fprefathers
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Spike Lee and Ray Nagin - What do They Have in Common
Spike Lee was born Shelton Lee in Atlanta, Georgia in 1957. He came from good African American stock his father being a jazz musician and his mother a school teacher where he was raised in Brooklyn, New York.
Lee’s When the Levees Broke aired as a four hour long documentary on the Katrina disaster replete with a appearances and comments by Lee himself.
article tags: spike lee, ray nagin, lee, nagin, cnn, katrina, levees, new orleans, louisiana, gulf coast, bush, charlton heston, ara.american rifle, imdb, atlanta, chocolate, chocolate city, 9/11, disaster, public apology, new york, brooklyn, white house, media, power, administration, mayor
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American Sleeping Giant Awakes – But is too Heavy to walk on Islamic Jihadist Eggshells
One of America’s largest Christian broadcasters, Trinity Broadcasting Network has decided to drop one of its shows because it does not want to agitate Muslim Jihadist. Of course they say it is because they don’t want to offend Muslims in general and that because they are beginning to broadcast into Arab countries. Nevertheless the dye is cast and with a brand of political correctness of their own making they plan to bounce the long running show created by the late Zola Levitt.
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17)
Struggle for Freedom
Being in college in 1969 meant being in the midst of history as the most charismatic president in Philippine history cemented his hold on the imaginiation of the Filipino people. Ferdinand E. Marcos was idolized and considered a hero by the generation who survived the Second World War. He was a be-medalled hero of the war against the Japanese Imperialist ambitions and his exploits as a young lieutenant gained for him various medals.
article tags: freedom, struggle, dictatorship, wealth and power, politics, struggle for freedom, marcos, marcos dictatorship, corrupt media
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Yellow Ribbons Of Hope
Incidents of ribbons worn on collars, backpacks, cars, or hanged on house doors have been first seen when various people attempted to envision a better future and inspire hope. Wearing and otherwise displaying ribbons of various colors to remember loved ones far away or to identify with a particular cause is a contemporary custom that has its roots in both popular culture and folk tradition.
article tags: ribbons, material, decoration
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The Red Ribbon Story
On February 7, 1985 at 2:00 p.m. the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique (Kiki) Camarena was attacked by five men while opening his truck doors intending to drive and meet his wife for lunch. The beige Volkswagen where he was forced in disappeared that warm winter afternoon in the streets of Guadalajara, Mexico. One month later, Camarena’s body was found savagely and grotesquely murdered.
article tags: ribbons, material, decoration
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Us Should Not Continue Tightening The Economic Grip On Cuba
The US government is one of the three countries in the world that have initiated and maintained the Cuba blockage. Specifically, only US, Israel and Uzbekistan are the rejecting the voice of the United Nations General Assembly to seize this type of trade treatment. More cases appear every year in the news regarding the US embargo consequences on the lives of millions of Cubans.
article tags: economic grip on cuba, cuba making, cuban
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Is War Ever Justified?
To those of us who are horrified by war, it is easy to say at once that war is never justified and disagree totally with the question. However, a little thought will lead us to conclude that there are at least a few instances that a country is justified in going to war. In other words, war can be just under certain circumstances.
article tags: war, justification
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Globalization Explained
What is Globalization?
In simple Globalization means opening up of national boundaries for foreigner to start their business. For developing countries, globalization means integration with the world economy. Globalization is cross border economic transaction.
article tags: globalization, international organization, benefits of globalization
23)
San Francisco Quake Survivor
Born on January 10, 1903 (103 years old), Herbert Hamrol is one of the oldest employees at the grocery store where he works arranging shelves two days a week.
"I've been there going on 68 years. Two days a week — and you wouldn't want to work for nicer people."
But this year his celebrity status has increased ten-fold, because he is one of the Eyewitness survivors of the 1906 San Francisco quake (the San Francisco earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906 - 05:12 AM local t...
article tags: san francisco quake
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A Prayer for World Peace, Part II
A Prayer for World Peace, Part II
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Why Women Are Protected From Consensual Acts
When a woman stays in an abusive violent relationship, societies won’t simply declare that it must be inconsensual and illegal.
Societies will ask the woman first whether she wants to stay or not. Yet when a woman happily chooses to share a rich smart male, be a prostitute or concubine, societies simply say that it’s so bad it must be inconsensual, and it must be illegal.
When a woman gets stuck in a bad marriage with a violent, financially irresponsible male, societi...
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