Be Afraid - Be Very Afraid
By John McDonald06/29/2005
“There is only one course of action against them: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home.”
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I Used To Own A House
By Stephen Macklin06/23/2005
Forget flag burning. We need an amendment banning desecration of the Constitution.
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GITMO Prisoner Abuse Reality Check
By Stephen Macklin06/17/2005
When ranking members on one side of a war send out video for news outlets to air that is really nothing more than propaganda what happens? Well if the video comes from an agency of the Bush White House there is a great uproar and the media drips with righteous indignation. When the video is an Al Qaeda snuff film from Iraq, if it gets covered at all, it's just news.
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Howard Dean Is Right
By John McDonald06/16/2005
Let me see -- George W. Bush lies about the reasons for going to war in Iraq. Howard Dean called Republicans “mostly White Christians.” O.K., I agree, Democrats should attack Howard Dean.
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Is Decadence a sign of Growth?
By Alexander Rai06/15/2005
“Relationships”: Perhaps the most widely abused concept in the dating scene amongst teen and young people today. It has a certain subversive inflection to it that connotes a decadent euphemism.
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The Führer’s Sex Appeal: The powerful allure of dictatorships
By Alexander Rai06/12/2005
Adolf Hitler was indubitably the sexiest man in Germany, at least between the years 1933-1941, when Germany redefined modernity with its weltanschauung, with such potent concepts as Geopolitik, Blitzkrieg, Autarky, and a vehement and unfettered polemic of Aryanism.
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Jeez honey, I got horrible breath!: A micro outlook on Globalization
By Alexander Rai06/12/2005
My mouth is positively rancid. It is stale with the decadence of excellent dark coffee (with sugar and without cream) brewed by a family of cheerful and industrious North Indians that run a Dunkin’ Donuts franchise store in a convenient and prosperous corner of a convenient and prosperous corner of Southern New Jersey called Voorhees.
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The need for “Elitism” in an era of public educating: Hope in an era of unprecedented global accountability
By Alexander Rai06/10/2005
Public education is based on the simple principle that education is something that everyone should have.
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When China Explodes
By Stephen Macklin06/08/2005
US and European corporations are staking a lot of hope for the future on China. Both as a manufacturing resource and as an emerging market. What I do not know is how much faith to have in the future of China.
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Western Naivete in the Case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
By06/07/2005
The Russian “legal system,” which would be funny if it wasn’t so painful, has declared Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty on a dozen or so counts of anti-social behavior. For this, he has been stripped of all assets and will spend the next nine years in jail.
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Strange Bedfellows
By John McDonald06/04/2005
Can the fight against poverty bring Evangelicals and Democrats together?
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