Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Why can't choice be a settled issue?

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The debate over artion rights has consumed our politics for decades. It seems that each time the freedom to choose seems like a settled issu...
Friday, January 27, 2012

The need to go there!!

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I have a friend who doesn’t understand the value of travel. He thinks that the virtual world provides him all of the insight he needs into n...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

How

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It was Oscar Wilde who said "the cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." For to long we've been very ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

San Francisco Bay

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San Francisco Bay is a remarkably resilient body of water. In spite of the urbanization and cosmopolitan life of the 46 cities that surround...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Up is down, down is up...

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Just as we often use living viruses to cure disease, so the Right argues that the cure for financial crises, environmental degradation, mini...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

The conscience of Los Angeles

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Bobby Kennedy used to be fond of quoting George Bernard Shaw in saying that “some men see things as they are and ask why, other see things t...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Nuremberg, 9/11 and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

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The subject of how to deal with war crimes has plagued the moral conscience of civilized man for millennia. In more modern times, after Wor...
Monday, January 16, 2012

How mad are they?

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Conservatism evolved from the reaction against the elitism of the French Revolution. It was given up for dead in the mid 1950’s then redefin...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Beyond Capitalism

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If nothing else is clear about this years Presidential election, it’s certain that not only our economy, but our current forms of capitalis...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The Plots Against the Presidents

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The shocks of the current economic crises have confused the country. Historically like all such confusion, it can give rise to fear and allo...
Monday, January 9, 2012

Spy vs. Chip

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After watching  Mission Impossible  and  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy  you've seen both the past and the future of espionage. We all re...
Monday, January 2, 2012

What makes New York City so safe?

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It estimated that in the next decade as much as seventy percent of the world's population will be living in cities. How we make those ci...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Is something rotten in Denmark...and the rest of Europe?

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Around 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville revealed a unique set of American character traits. Traits that in total, would come to define the Ameri...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Voices of Poverty

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What does poverty look like in America today? Almost fifty years ago, Lyndon Johnson, during a State of the Union address, proposed a War ...
Monday, December 19, 2011

How Ahmad Chalabi lead the Bush administration into Iraq

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Now that the war in Iraq is officially ending, just maybe we can go back and look at why there really was an Iraq war. Not because of the s...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Why are we so interested in foresnics?

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More than twenty years ago, Patricia Cornwell originated the modern-day forensic thriller. In so doing, she changed the face of contemporar...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The God particle, Higgs boson and what are we looking for?

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Scientists announced Tuesday that they had found hints, but not quite definitive proof of the particle that is believed to be a basic compon...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The Greats of the Game or why sports continues to grow

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This weekend it was reported that movie attendance is at a recent low. Our interest in politics and politicians couldn't be lower. Howev...