Opinion Forum

The Marine Hymn needs to be rewritten, badly. I have tried.

May 14th, 2012

By Dan Miller It’s beastly and must never again be sung until changed. Then, we can finally be as proud of our country as we are of President and Mrs. Obama. Here are verses from the disgustingly warlike Marine Hymn: From the Halls of Montezuma To the Shores of Tripoli, We fight our country’s battles [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: alpha, beta, gay, Hymn, Marines, men, President, satire, USMC, wusses
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Trust but Verify Applies Not Only to Foreign Governments

May 6th, 2012

By Dan Miller Governance of a free people requires their continuously earned trust. Verification is needed to preserve that trust when it is justified and to destroy that trust when it is no longer justified. That is not solely the function of the principal media. Governance with decreasing mutual trust requires the use of ever [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Chen, China, conspiracy, culture, election, government, PSYOP, Zimmerman
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Is Technology the New Opiate of the Masses?

April 24th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor Karl Marx famously called religion the “opiate of the masses.” Well, to paraphrase Reggie Hammond, Eddie Murphy’s character in the film 48 Hours, “There’s a new opiate in town and its name is technology.” Yes, folks, everywhere you look these days, you see people “shooting up” their technological “drug” of choice, [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: addiction, dependence, games, internet, opiate, social media, technology
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How to Encourage Racism and Hatred for Political Gain

April 18th, 2012

By Dan Miller They are easier and more politically useful to encourage than to discourage. Despite claiming in 2008 campaign that he would unite us, President Obama and his allies are doing their best to drive us apart. This YouTube video of our post-racial, post partisan unifying President was posted by BarackObamadotcom on January 31st [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: black-on-black, crime, election, Gates, Obama, race, racial, Trayvon Martin
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The Media Trial of George Zimmerman Shows That We Don’t Need Courts

March 24th, 2012

By Dan Miller During Alice’s visit to Wonderland, she attended a trial. The queen demanded, “sentence first, trial later.” We can do even better! As just about everyone not comatose for the past several days now knows, twenty-eight year old George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, shot and killed seventeen year old Trayvon Martin almost [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: arrest, racial, racist, satire, shooting, Trayvon Martin, Zimmerman
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Mental Battles

March 3rd, 2012

By Jan Barry Remember the TV ad where several people congregate in New York’s Grand Central Station, each wearing a bright white T-shirt displaying a message revealing startling and very personal information: “bipolar,” “sister,” “schizophrenia,” “mother,” “post traumatic stress disorder,” “battle buddy.”

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: bipolar disorder, BringChange2Mind, families, Glenn Close, mental illness
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Why Can’t Muhammad Be as Funny as the Pope?

February 28th, 2012

By Tom Carter The media are loath to write or depict anything that might inflame Muslims to come looking for them with knives, guns, bombs, or airplanes. Part of the reason is fear, and who can blame them — no one wants to be murdered. Another part is their antipathy toward Jews and Israel and [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Catholic, fear, freedom, Islam, murder, Muslim, religion, speech, terrorism
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Is This the Future of American Values?

February 7th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor In researching my next parenting book, I came across several recent studies that I found truly disturbing. As you will see shortly, the results don’t paint a pretty picture for the future of our children or our society as a whole. Even more damning is what it tells us about how [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: children, entertainment, parenting, popular culture, TV, tweens, values
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Murderers of the Fogel Family in Israel Are Heroes

January 29th, 2012

By Dan Miller U.S warmongers who urinate on dead Taliban heroes are war criminals. According to this article, Palestinian television aired an interview with the relatives of the Fogel family murderers earlier this month, praising the two cousins convicted with the brutal attack as “heroes.” The broadcast was aired as part of a weekly show [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: children, family, Fogel, Israel, murder, Palestinians, peace, satire, terrorism
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After the State of the Union: Who Can Defeat Obama?

January 25th, 2012

By Tom Carter As I watched the President’s State of the Union address last night, this question was rattling around in my mind: Who can defeat Obama? Based on performance quality in delivering a prepared speech, the answer is that none of the current Republican contenders is up to the task. That highlights a defining [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: candidates, election, facts, Gingrich, Obama, Republican, Romney, SOTU
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Pros and Cons of the U.S. Higher Education System

January 20th, 2012

By Justin Herbert American education and higher education has taken a hit in the media in recent years. Education professionals continue to flood our news reports saying that America has fallen behind and that our education system needs to be radically reformed. The fact is, however, that higher education in the U.S. is actually gaining [...]

Articles written by Guest Author
Tags: funding, higher education, improvement, online, rankings, U.S., world
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Enlightened Self-interest and International Relations

January 18th, 2012

By Dan Miller In theory, it may beat commonly praised alternatives. But to what extent can we rely on it in practice? Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British mathematician and philosopher. He wrote prolifically in both disciplines and also wrote a few mediocre short stories. He stood three times, [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Bertrand Russell, foreign policy, Islam, North Korea, self-interest, Somalia
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Should Politics and Foreign Policy Affect Our Military Justice System?

January 16th, 2012

By Dan Miller The military justice system demands justice for our troops, not revenge upon them to curry favor with others. The video of U.S. Marines who apparently urinated on Taliban corpses has gone viral and not only the Islamic world is watching.

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: foreign policy, justice, Marines, punishment, Taliban, trial, UCMJ, urinate
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Fact and Opinion in the News

January 14th, 2012

By Dan Miller All the news and opinions that fit. Letters from Art Brisbane, the New York Times’ public editor, on the subject of “liberal” bias in opinion pieces, are excerpted here. A problem is that the line between fact and opinion, to the extent that one is a recognizable, can often be unclear. If [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: bias, Costa Concordia, Iran, liberal, New York Times, News, torpedo
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Ron Paul and Double Standards

January 12th, 2012

By Seth Forman Now that Ron Paul has achieved electoral respectability in the Republican primaries, the media is in high dudgeon over his extremism. Paul, according to the procurators of good taste at the New York Times, “long ago disqualified himself for the presidency” by, among other things, “peddling claptrap proposals” such as “cutting a third [...]

Articles written by Seth Forman
Tags: double standard, extremism, newsletters, Obama, pastors, race, Ron Paul
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Christopher Hitchens’ Death and Conservative Blogs

December 16th, 2011

By Dan Miller As almost everyone living in the West and able to read already knows, Christopher Hitchens (1949 – 2011) died yesterday at the age of sixty-two. Conservative fairness toward and even appreciation of Agnostics, Atheists and others with whom many disagree has long been a conservative energizer. The extent of this ability to [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: agnostic, atheist, Christian, Christmas, Christopher Hitchens, conservative
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A Commitment to Uncovering Local Environmental Issues

December 8th, 2011

By Jan Barry The headlines in a recent newspaper series unveiled a shocking story: “DEP let poison flow for decades” … “North Jersey riddled with failed cleanups” … “Desperate to move, but bound to stay; Residents say homes in Superfund site are worthless.” Got your attention? That’s the intent of the “Toxic Landscape” series that [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: chemicals, environment, Garfield, New Jersey, Ringwood, superfund, toxic
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What Would Woody Say?

December 1st, 2011

By Jan Barry “Woody Guthrie spoke plain About deportees and dust bowl days… So what would Woody write? Right now in these hard times” That’s the sobering, yet enticing question that activist-songwriter Sharleen Leahey raises in her new CD collection, entitled “Rumors of Peace.” What would the “Poet of the People” who sang about plain [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: activist, music, peace, Rumors of Peace, Sharleen Leahey, Woody Guthrie
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