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Media in Society
Last night I saw a debate on television about what role the media is to play in our society. I found one speaker to be somewhat appalling. This person argued against the involvement of media in our societal discussion on issues that matter.Read more…Creating the Perfect American
"He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good.Read more…What the Iraq War Is Really About?
For those of you who think you already know and say it is about oil, sorry you are wrong, or at least not telling the whole story. Yes it is linked to oil, but it is not about oil. It’s about the need for America to continue to have the Greenback as the dominant world currency.Read more…Yankee Doodle Con Men
Shill ’shil, n : one who acts as a decoy (as for a pitchman) If I were selling twenty dollar bills on the street corner for ten dollars the natural inclination would be to suspect that I was up to no good. As a child we are admonished that all the glitters is not gold. Conversely if I were on that same street corner selling twenty dollar bills for twenty five dollars you wouldn’t expect business to be very brisk, yet that’s exactly what caught my attention.Read more…Iraq and the Misery Index
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 an indicator of how the American people felt about how they were doing. No one has suggested resurrecting this index in recent years.Read more…Is George Allen's Political Career Over?
In the wake of George Allen's defeat by Jim Webb, let's not write Allen's political obituary just yet. Sure, it was a disappointing loss for Allen, who, just four months ago, seemed like a cinch to win overwhelming re-election to his Senate seat and be on his way to a formidable run for the White House in 2008. Now, after several gaffs and a poorly run campaign, he sits as a lame-duck senator with his 2008 presidential aspirations having been dashed.Read more…Iraq: What Next
In the recent U.S. election, approximately 6 in 10 voters opposed the current approach in Iraq and a similar share supported U.Read more…Nebraska's Contentious Political Environment
The bi-annual open season for mud slinging and dirty tricks is quickly coming to a head. On November 7, 2006, Americans go to the polls to elect local, county, state and national leadership. However, the difficult question to answer is, are leaders elected?Read more…The Core Problem With Radical Islam
Not many people - especially those with no spiritual, or religious experience, understand the commitment that has attached to Radical Islam. It is woven into the fiber of their being because the tenets of the religion call them to destroy or subjugate the non-believers. It is central to the writings of their major religious texts and has emerged as the central theme in the admonishments of their current day holy leaders.Read more…A Nation to Die For!
You have been made to believe the government of the United States of America is what you serve to fulfil the commandment to love your neighbor and do your DUTY to God and country. Nothing could be further from the truth. Your parents will not tell you so.Read more…Politics and the 80/20 Principle
We all know by now that the 80/20 principle states that 80% of our business comes from 20% of our customers and 80% of our complaints come from 20% of them as well.So what do I mean when I refer to an 80/20 principle in politics? If seems to me, and this is just my opinion based on decades of observation - that maybe 10% of the people are on the far left.Read more…America – United We Stand Divided We Are
The two party system in America has not been troublesome up to recent days for several reasons. Firstly, it was always taken for granted that the singular goal of each party was identical. That goal was doing what was best for the country.Read more…U.S. Mexico Foreign Concerns: Tijuana Drug Trafficking, Police Killing, and Illegal Immigration
Bloody battles between Mexico's drug cartels and police are intensifying as backlash from previous arrests leads to the death of more Tijuana police. Mexico's booming drug trade seems to be something the government does not want to stop considering police in Tijuana are insufficiently armed. Only the Mexican military is adequately armed to face off against drug cartels armed with military grade artillery.Read more…New Defense Secretary Changes Everything – Perhaps
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 oblivious to polls. They may not honor them, but they are not oblivious to them.Read more…After The Implosion - What Now?
As I write, I am listening to the President announce the resignation of Don Rumsfeld. While I for one do not hold Rumsfeld solely responsible for the current situation in Iraq (there is plenty of responsibility to share) I do somehow wonder what would have been had the President started with a fairly clean slate of Secretaries and fresh eyes after the 2006 elections. It reminds me that the end effect of stasis is often disease.Read more…The Only Presidential Primary of 2007
Now that the 2006 mid-term elections are over, it will soon be time to focus on the presidential politics of 2007. There will be only one presidential primary in 2007 and it will be a big one -- the "money primary." Reports released at the end of each quarter of 2007 will slowly but surely reveal the story of who's winning and losing that all-important "primary.Read more…Conventions
Conventions are system of exercise applicable to the three organs of the supervision. It is based on approval and not on lawful responsibility. Conventions are frequently observed practices with no legal foundation and are not enforceable in magistrates.Read more…Liberalism
Principles adapt according to changing communal and biased circumstances and can even combine with, or take on principles from, other ideologies. Liberalism as a philosophy has undergone consecutive modifications since its beginning some 300 years ago. In scrupulous, Liberalism’s outlook of the position of the state has transformed since 1880 in reaction to the financial failings of its own ‘Laissez faire’ philosophy, but all through Liberalism has retained its primary obsession with the liberty of the personality.Read more…Changes, They are Coming
In response to my yet to be approved Article "Political bigotry at its Best" (at time of writing just 24 hours after the US midterm 2006 Election), the polls and the word in the streets of America have read true. I congratulate the voters and trust that the country's division is narrowed and that common sense and true reform eventuates for the tens of millions of struggling families and individuals that live in quiet desperation.I constantly read of the tens of thousands of lay-offs across America every month.Read more…Rebuilding a Republican Majority
On November 7, voters colored the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate blue—Democratic Party blue.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Politics category
- The Politics of a Great Headline - By: Colleen Davis
Election time is just around the corner and candidate's are out in full force pushing their campaigns with posters and signs on every other corner. Add this to the regular influx of ads hitting the streets every week - President Searching With a Fine Tooth Comb - By: Ajeet Khurana
The US Presidential elections are due in 2008. Intelligent voters always weigh their options before choosing someone as President. - The Insurgency in Southern Thailand - By: Matt Crook
Thai premier Surayud Chulanont has reacted to escalating violence in Thailand’s southernmost regions by traveling to the area and making his latest move towards ending decades of violence.The insurgency in southern Thailand has received major media attention in the wake of a series of violent incidents centered in the three southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat.The history of this separatist movement can be traced back to the early twentieth century when in 1902 Patani was annexed by Thailand (then known as Siam). - John Kerry, Republicans, & Our Military: So Irate Together - By: Stephen Oakes
What do John Kerry, Republicans, and now the U.S. military have in common? - Fighting Dem's, Hiding Dem's, and All Things in Between - By: Greg Reeson
The latest television campaign ad in the Virginia Senate race features two of the primary election approaches engineered by Democratic strategists for this November's mid-term contest: attacking the President's judgment and competence and appealing to the patriotism and dedication to service of current and former military members. These two campaign tactics, along with a third, newer strategy that just emerged in recent weeks, form the core of Howard Dean's plan for winning back the House and Senate after twelve years of Republican control.The first part of the campaign strategy centers on attacking the Republican candidate, Senator George Allen, by framing him as "guilty through association" for his support of the President and his policies. - American Government's Chief Cornerstone and Indissoluble Bond - By: Paul Davis
Our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor for the freedoms we now possess and so casually take for granted.Samuel Adams, the Father of the American Revolution, the patriot and leader who brought about our famous saying, “No taxation without representation” he said:“The right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty… The rights of the colonists as Christians…may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institution of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.”On September 6, 1774, the second day of he Continental Congress, Samuel Adams proposed that one session be opened with prayer. - Will Europe Go Left Or Right - By: Eric Sutherland
With Merkal in West Germany being pragmatic by pushing through benefit reforms and the big German companies pushing the unions to agree new conditions in exchange for jobs to remain in Germany and respond to Globalisation by moving production to low cost Eastern European or Asian countries. These conditions covered both working practices and redundancy benefits payable. In Germany it appears to be working, with the increase in output and the only country in socialist Europe. - New Era in the UN - By: Ziv Maor
Does the appointment of Ban Ki-moon as UN Secretary General bode well for UN-US relations? What challenges does Ki-moon face? A quick sketch of the pre-eminent diplomat On September 13 2006, the UN Security Council approved the appointment of Ban Ki-moon as the next UN Secretary General. - Creating Righteous U.S. Government - By: Ed Howes
In truth, I am more than a little surprised nuclear regime change has not yet happened in America. Whatever has prevented it is certainly not the Department of Homeland Security. Far more likely millions of sincere prayers for mercy on these miserable offenders have delayed what may be inevitable. - Winning the War - By: Ann Stewart
Who is winning the war? Do you want to know the final outcome of the wars that are being fought globally? Everyone you talk to has a different opinion about which war should or should not be waged and whether or not the sacrifices are worth it.