Politics
Iraq and the Misery Index
By Richard Stoyeck · 17 years ago
The other day it occurred to me that during Ronald Reagan's run for the Presidency he created a "Misery Index". This index represented a total of the rate of inflation, plus the prime rate, as ...
New Defense Secretary Changes Everything – Perhaps
By Richard Stoyeck · 17 years ago
On Election Day, the American people spoke very strongly that the direction the President and the Republican Party was taking America towards, is not the direction the country wanted to go in. Presidents are not ...
Internet and Cable TV Shake Up Democracy
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
Very rarely are we given the opportunity as citizens to participate in a revolution. The citizens that founded our republic participated in a revolution that has affected every corner of the earth for more than ...
"Blame It On Gay Marriage… $1,000 Reward."
By Paul Sterling · 17 years ago
The US environmental policy is being dismantled by a government in denial, while more and more evidence pours in about global warming (small things like hurricane Katina).
Politicians cry about our dependency on foreign oil ...
Are too many political candidates campaigning in "the Cave"?
By Hal Gieseking · 18 years ago
Is negative political advertising harmful or helpful in getting political candidates elected today?. This article examines some of the moral highground politicans give up if they sink too low in attacking their opponents. It uses ...
Navy Seal dies the hero’s death in Iraq
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
It may surprise you to learn that during the entire Iraq war and post war engagement period, only two of the elite Navy Seals have paid the ultimate price of service. I remember when the ...
"America's Goliath, IRS code sec 501(c)(3)?"
By Randall Fisher · 18 years ago
Has anyone noticed all the hoopla recently about the non profit status of the church? Many have become concerned. It seems that ministers have not read this code. The censorship in this code, is in ...
North Korea – Yes, you have our attention
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
North Korea has tested a low yield nuclear device with 4% of the destructive power of the bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II. Some believe ...
Disney / ABC deserve credit-Sept. 11th ABC movie
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
It is rare, rare indeed when a major media entity bucks the trend, and does what it believes in. Recently ABC under Disney’s guidance aired the $40 million production, “The Path to 9/11”. This was ...
Afghanistan given up to the warlords
By John Taylor · 18 years ago
Fifteen thousand American soldiers, helped by two thousand back-up troops of the allied troops, try, without much success, to ensure a pretence of order in Afghanistan. The presidential election wanted by Washington is quite unable ...
Sept. 11th ABC movie-Historically accurate
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
Sometimes Hollywood does get it right. The landings at the beaches of Normandy in the Steven Spielberg movie, “Saving Private Ryan” is a vivid, stunning, blood and gore portrayal of the horror that young American ...
The War on Truth
By Amy Goodman · 18 years ago
President George W. Bush has long preferred illusion to reality. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to ...
What Does It Really Mean To Be A Real U.S. Citizen?
By David Maillie · 18 years ago
It means we have rights. Rights that many have fought for and given their lives for. Unfortunately in current America there is, for the most part, two separate classes of citizenship, a bipartisanship if you ...
For the Love of Charity! The Economics of Parasitism
By Croydon J Hounslow · 18 years ago
Britain’s urban centres have been invaded by ‘Face-to-Face Fundraisers’ over the past few years. Termed ‘chuggers’ (shorthand for ‘charity muggers’) in popular parlance, these brightly-tuniced purveyors of bubbly roadside patter are the ambassadors of a ...
Nuclear Terrorism
By Andrew Horan · 18 years ago
The major obstacle to nuclear terrorism is not obtaining the weapon. It is obtaining the terrorist group. A single terrorist fired the weapon that ignited World War 1. When the Archduke Ferdinand died, Europe erupted ...
Gas Prices To Come Down Unless George Bush And Big Oil Intervene
By David Maillie · 18 years ago
The average price of gasoline has now reached an all time high in the United States at $3.03 per gallon. Higher even than in the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. The recent cease fire and UN agreement ...
The Arrogant Path To Extinction
By Nancy O'connor Phd · 18 years ago
If the richer developed Nations don’t help the poorer undeveloped nations on planet earth we are just speeding up the extinction of our species. People from the underdeveloped countries will continue to move legally or ...
Truths about the Nehru Dynasty
By Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan · 18 years ago
At the very beginning of his book, The Nehru Dynasty, astrologer K.N.Rao mentions the names of Jawaharlal's father and grandfather. Jawaharlal's father was Motilal and Motilal's father was one Gangadhar Nehru.
And we all know ...
A Brief History of Flags
By Jatin Chawla · 18 years ago
In this day and age, the origin of flags is a highly debatable matter even though flags were used as symbols thousands of years ago by ancient cultures. There is a section of people who ...
Al Gore’s Inconvenient Infomercial: A Movie Review
By James Finch · 18 years ago
Who is the chubby, aging baby boomer waddling through airport after empty airport, wearily tugging along his 2-piece luggage roller? Hey, it’s not Michael Moore (again). Why, for heaven’s sake, it’s none other than a ...