Quick, what do the People’s Republic of China, Soviet Russia (along with the rest of the Warsaw Pact states), Iran, and Britain in Orwell’s 1984 all have in common? They all censor ideas that they don’t want their citizens to hear about. Soon, if the US Congress gets its way, the United States could...
Perhaps you’ve already heard about the growing movement known as Occupy Wall Street. This broad social movement has protested against a variety of social problems in the heart of New York City’s Financial District since mid-September, and it has since spread to a variety of other cities in the US and around the world....
Texas Governor Rick Perry entered the 2012 Republican Party field of Presidential candidates a couple of weeks ago with a splash; so much so, in fact, that the winner of the Ames Straw Poll, Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann, was upstaged; ordinarily, she would have had the media spotlight all to herself for the weekend....
Well, that must’ve been awkward. Today, Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel, met with President Obama. Ordinary state visit between allies, right? Well, yesterday, President Obama gave his anticipated “Arab Spring” speech, and it definitely ruffled some feathers. For decades, any thought of the U.S. wavering in its commitment to the preservation of Israel...
Given how the internet, the mainstream media, and indeed much of America itself, has absolutely erupted with the news that Osama bin Laden has been killed, chances are you’ve probably heard the news before reaching this post. Perhaps you watched President Obama’s speech live on Sunday night, just as I did. In any case,...
Well, it appears that the government shutdown has been averted, at least for the moment. That’s hardly cause for celebration, though, as not only is the final deal still being written up and passed, but we’re also never truly out of the water on funding the government these days either. Put aside deficits, debts,...
On Sunday afternoon, another government official quietly, regretfully handed in a letter of resignation to his boss. That’s not very big news in itself; after all, stories pop up every now and then of a minor official stepping down because of some embarrassment, slip up, or something else that causes pressure to quit to...
…but I’ll be damned if they didn’t cause it to boil over. I’m talking, of course, of the mass demonstrations against the budget bill that Governor Scott Walker (a Republican), and the majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature (both also Republican) have been trying to ram through for the past month. You know, the...
The three men pictured below, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Ex-President of Tunisia Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and the Middle Eastern dictator du jour, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt represent a colossal failure of US foreign policy over the past thirty years. In the case of the first two dictators, decades of autocratic...
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about what happened in Arizona over the weekend. In case you’ve managed to avoid the news for the past few days, though, Rep. Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords (D-Arizona), U.S. District Judge John Roll, and eighteen others were shot by a lone gunman at a “Congress on your Corner” event...
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