Opinion Forum

North Korea and Occupy Wall Street

November 8th, 2011

By Dan Miller North Korea is a beautiful country with a few minor problems. Due to governmental repression and bad weather, there is insufficient food for the people and North Korea has been begging many other countries for food and other relief. She can, however, grow lots of poppies at her political prison farms to […]

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Tags: aid, food, happiness, hunger, North Korea, Occupy Wall Street, satire
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Embarrassed To Be American

March 15th, 2011

By Nancy Morgan For the first time in my life, I’m embarrassed to be an American. Last weekend, as tens of thousands of Japanese were fighting for their lives after an 8.9 earthquake devastated their nation, our President, after giving a generic “We’re with you” statement, remained noticeably absent. Not really absent — Obama could […]

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Tags: aid, America, earthquake, Japan, meltdown, nuclear, response, tsunami
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Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan

March 14th, 2011

By Tom Carter The earthquakes and tsunami that hit Japan in the last few days are a sobering reminder of the fragility of life on Planet Earth. The main earthquake has been estimated as having a magnitude of 8.9, 9.0, or 9.1 on the Richter scale. Nothing unusual about the variation; it sometimes takes a […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: aid, earthquake, Fuji, Honshu, Japan, Tokyo, tsunami, U.S. Navy, volcano
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The Tragedy of Haiti

January 18th, 2010

By Tom Carter Like most everyone else, I’m following the news out of Haiti pretty closely. The photos and videos are appalling. Estimates of the number of dead range from 50,000 to 200,000 or more, but no one knows the true number. Many more thousands of people are injured. Hundreds of thousands are homeless, living in the streets […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: aid, corruption, disaster, earthquake, Haiti, reconstruction, violence
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