Just as everyone has breathed a sigh of relief at the end of 2004 presidential campaign, I would like to take a quick look ahead to 2008. Unless George W. Bush is unable to complete his second term, 2008 will bring the third open presidential election (no incumbent running) in 20 years. Even though that’s [...]
As pictures and videos surface showing young American soldiers humiliating and dehumanizing Iraqi prisoners, we, as a society, recoil in disgust and disbelief. Friends and family of those charged with such crimes, shake their heads in bewilderment and assure the world that the perpetrators are normal, caring, loving individuals without any prior sadistic or bullying [...]
An American soldier is taken behind enemy lines and brainwashed as an unwitting assassin by communists in league with American political figures. This soldier then returns to the States to kill a presidential candidate as part of a political scheme to escalate and exploit Cold War tensions.
Sound familiar? It does if you’ve seen the classic [...]
# “It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”
– Albert Einstein
# “Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”
– Ambrose Bierce
# “Man is by nature a political animal.”
– Aristotle
# “I have come to the conclusion that politics are too [...]
President Bush and Secretary Powell should hang their heads in shame. The administration professes to value America’s childrenand touts the phrase “No Child Left Behind.” Simultaneously,they have abandoned an estimated 16,000 American children abroad.
According to Joel Mowbray’s book “Dangerous Diplomacy,” the children have been kidnapped by their parents and held in foreign countries, such as [...]
I. WARS ARE BASIC CONFLICTS OVER LAND.
II. BOUNDARIES. THE STATE OF ISRAEL SHALL BASICALLY BE HER PRE-1967 BORDERS, EXCEPT FOR THEIR MUNICIPAL JURISDICTION IN JERUSALEM. THE BOUNDARIES OF THE STATE OF PALESTINE SHALL BE THE WEST BANK AND GAZA. THE BOUNDARIES OF SYRIA SHALL BE HER PRE-1967 BORDERS.
III. CITIZENSHIP. JEWISH PEOPLE CURRENTLY LIVING IN THE [...]
One of my favourite pieces of music is the Sex Pistols’ classic ‘Holidays in the Sun’ - a song that begins with the line, ‘a cheap holiday in other people’s misery’. This would have made a fitting epitaph for my holiday in Israel, except that the $3000 air ticket meant that it wasn’t exactly cheap.
I [...]
The predominant discussion in the Indianapolis media over the proposed $500 million Colts stadium is how to fund it, not over the wisdom and propriety of taxpayers going into debt to build it.
Apparently the leaders of both major political parties in Indiana have signed off on the concept, including a poor building design, and are [...]
Heavens, what are we up against?
It seems these days that we are inundated with worsening situations, not just in Canada but worldwide: Increasing terrorism threats; Global arrests of Al Qaeda operatives; More corruption in our Canadian Liberal federal government; A backlash against Official Bilingualism resulting in Mini Official Bilingualism referendums, that incidentally are overwhelmingly against [...]
Why President Bush should have his second term? The arguments can be drawn from Gas price, Job creation and War in Iraq scientifically. If it is scientific, it must observe the same result, test in the same experiment and constitute a mathematical truth. For example, we all know that goose is white because we see [...]