Now that the elections have been fought and won by a once improbable candidate, Americans have quickly reverted to type – worrying about everything and nothing on how the new president will govern. It never ceases to amaze me how much influence a negative culture has on a nations psyche. Here is a candidate...
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A Nation of Hand-Wringers
John McCain’s Fantasy World
“I know how to win wars”
“I am a maverick”
“I have been tested”
“I know how to get Osama Bin Laden”
Hearing senator John McCain make these claims, the totally uninformed is wont to take the word of the 72-year old at face value. After all, he has been celebrated as a war hero; he is a...
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Why History Is Important
Friday October 10, 2008 will go down in history for a number of reasons, but mostly for being the day Americans were hit with the fact that after 200 years of nationhood and after strenuous efforts by our leaders to project an image of maturity, progress and tolerance, we are still a nation searching...
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The Return Of The Lynch Mob
The dangerous turn the rhetoric has taken on the campaign trail is sure to remind most of us of the ugly stories we have read about lynching of people in the dark days of the creation of the Union. Sarah Palin started us down this dark road and John McCain, as a further evidence...
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Pipe Dream: Palin’s pipeline to nowhere?
Since Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska was chosen as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican party, she has gone on the campaign trail burnishing an image of a “reformer” and as someone who can get things done and “stand up to big oil”. As she gleefully mentioned at the Republican National Convention in...
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