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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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The Cain and Letterman Show

November 21st, 2011

By Dan Miller Here is a 24 minute video of Mr. Cain’s November 18th appearance on the Dave Letterman Show.

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Tags: election, Herman Cain, interview, Letterman, sense of humor, show
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Is Chris Matthews’ Thrill about President Obama Gone?

November 20th, 2011

By Dan Miller Here is an old video featuring Chris Matthews speaking of the thrill he got when he heard Candidate Obama speak.

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Tags: Chris Matthews, election, failure, Obama, thrill
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What Could Herman Cain Have Done to Revive His Damaged Candidacy?

November 17th, 2011

By Dan Miller A postmortem I drafted this article about a week ago and have updated it to reflect current realities. Due to the recent declines in Mr. Cain’s standing, there may be little sense in publishing it now. Nevertheless, here goes. Many articles have claimed that Mr. Cain and his staff bungled their responses [...]

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Tags: Cain, charges, cross examination, polygraph, response, sexual harassment
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Herman Cain Is Finished

November 3rd, 2011

By Tom Carter Herman Cain is finished as a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. The decline of his chances to win the nomination may be faster or slower, but it’s over. And it was inevitable. Sexual harassment charges from his days as head of the National Restaurant Association are getting more serious every [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Cain, campaign, charges, organization, Romney, sexual harassment, staff
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Lots of Lame Horses in This Race

October 3rd, 2011

By Tom Carter Like many other folks, I’ve watched most of the Republican primary debates and read and heard a lot of media reporting and commentary. Often — too often — political contests are explained in sports terminology, especially with terms drawn from horse racing. In that spirit, all I can say is that it [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Cain, Christie, debates, Huntsman, loser, Republican, Romney, winner
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I’m Terrified for My Daughters

September 28th, 2011

By Dr. Jim Taylor I have two young daughters and, in some ways, I’m really excited that they are growing up in this generation. These are amazing times to be young and female with so many opportunities available to them. More women than men are graduating from college and earning graduate degrees. We see women [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: appearance, culture, discrimination, girls, glass ceiling, men, women
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Texas Toast: Rick Perry, Ted Kennedy, Roger Mudd and 1979 Redux

September 28th, 2011

By Richard D. Bailey “Why do you want to be President?” It was the question that killed a candidacy the national media had conceived, created and cajoled. Ted Kennedy’s famous flub of a simple question asked by Roger Mudd on a national broadcast in November 1979 accomplished two things. First, it paved the path for [...]

Articles written by Guest Author
Tags: Carter, Christie, debates, Kennedy, Perry, primaries, reporters, Texas Toast
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He Promised Change

September 17th, 2011

By Richard D. Bailey He promised “Change.” In 2008, with a brilliant strategy, Clinton/Bush fatigue, an aspirational biography and a natural grace and eloquence before adoring crowds that brought the media world and popular culture to wistful, teary longings for the time of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Barack Obama mastered the moment and [...]

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Tags: change, defeat, eloquence, failure, hope, Obama, promises, slogan
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Peace Beat

September 11th, 2011

By Jan Barry War drums began beating across America before the dust settled at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It’s an all-American tradition to march to the beat for military action, the fountain of flag waving excitement that produces legions of war correspondents, bugle-blaring headlines and armchair commandos in newsrooms. It is rare [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, budget, Iraq, Keller, peace, Pentagon, war
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First Amendment Rights of Individuals Are Equal to those of Traditional Media

August 27th, 2011

By Dan Miller In Glik v. City of Boston, et al, a Mr. Glik had used his cellular phone to video and audio tape a police encounter with a man on the Boston Common. He was arrested for doing so but charges were thereafter dropped. He then filed suit in Federal District Court alleging violation [...]

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Tags: arrest, Boston, filming, First Amendment, Glik, police, press, video
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