America

  • Pushing Fallujah

    November 9, 2004

    Well, I don’t think bombing a city is necessarily the best way to approach a problem (notice I think Islamic facism is a problem), but neither is ignoring them and yanking on Patton’s chain like Roosevelt did. We have this very ineffective way of handling war these days – beat ’em just enough to make... Read More

  • Illogical and Self-Contradictory Reactions

    November 7, 2004

    Man Commits Suicide At Ground Zero Over Bush’s Reelection “Franca’s friend, Jeffim Kuznetsov, a 25-year-old student from Russia who lives in Atlanta, said the suicide is evidence of how deeply many Americans were affected by Kerry’s defeat: ‘It’s a national tragedy,” he said. “This election is devastating to all who believe in democracy’.” This is... Read More

  • Normality Has The Final Say (or Bush Wins!)

    November 3, 2004

    http://election.sos.state.oh.us/results/SingleRaceSummary.aspx?race=PP This was it! A closer nail-biter than the Yankees-Sox game 7, but with greater ramifications. And to think, Ohio, the heartlands, the center of normality in this country made the final call who was going to be President of the United States.

  • Is There Media Bias?

    October 28, 2004

    Well, I wanted to take just a quick sampling of headlines to explore the bias we find in the media. These are headlines taken from the websites of various media outlets. The question is LEFT, RIGHT or CENTER:

  • CBS Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry

    February 4, 2004

    For being a large, multibillion-dollar network, CBS seems to have made quite a few mistakes lately. Number Ones, a prime-time collection of Michael Jackson’s, was scheduled to run in November, but got rescheduled after his child molestation case broke. Oops. Then CBS executives gave the greenlight to a Ronald Reagan bio piece (that it now... Read More

  • America the Vulnerable

    September 11, 2001

    I stood atop the roof of my school building today, the building in which I teach freedom and love, and I watched as the horizon was smudged with the thick, black smoke of terror and hatred. The hallways echoed with tragedy and children looked out the window at nothing, perhaps visualizing a scenario, almost unthinkable... Read More