Archives for March 2007
When will it stop?
Western governments and their societies continually stand down to Middle East fanatics who cloak themselves in religious ideology, talk of war and recriminations, and hold modernity and progress hostage to Iron Age superstitions and dogmatism. Their only real power: the ability to turn off the oil spigot. If this is not a […]
Questions are democracies’ currency. There is no subject unqualified for scrutiny. Shields of authenticity and stamps of approval in a dynamic cultural and political environment ought be rare. Questions cause changes of mind; answers help implement those changes.
Thomas Mallon has asks, in the Spring ’07 issue of The American Scholar, some 10 difficult yet revealing […]
The irony of Israel’s anti-semitic policies has plagued their government, news agencies, and people for decades with the reasoned world, even as Israel and world Jewry project their “we’re the victims” attitude with such vitriol across the globe. Question: what is the half-life to using WWII’s Nazi Holocaust as defense for acting with impunity (and […]
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to everything but trying to kill George W. Bush’s father. Of course, as we all know, Saddam Hussein tried to do that, and look where that country is and the USA is headed.
Now Bush and the Republican party have their fall guy in place just in time for next year’s elections: […]
In a cynical pre-entry into the 2008 Republican-party presidential-nomination race, Newt Gingrich wore hypocrisy like a laurel leaf crown. With typical conservative-republican pandering to the religious right—the lowest-common-values factor that now strangles the United States’ political, social, and cultural arenas—Mr. Gingrich offered up his soul for pontification to James Dobson’s “Focus on the Family” radio […]
