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Busting up Obama's Boys Club
Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Carla Murphy.
For the first time this past Sunday, President Obama golfed with a member of my sex. I’m supposed to be thrilled. Score one for equality and all that. Over the last few weeks, Obama’s gotten grief for his frequent and frequently all-male basketball games. Boys’ games, the argument goes, are where deal making occurs. All-male […]
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The Nobel Prize in Controversy
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by Robert Voris.
“The fame-making apparatus confers celebrity on an individual in a conflagration so intense that he or she can’t possibly survive.” – Don DeLillo John Bolton thinks that Barack Obama should decline the Nobel Peace Prize. In other news, John Bolton thinks that people care about what John Bolton thinks.
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The Nobel Prize Committee's Bold Call
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by Joel Schectman.
Obama didn’t ask for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the real nominating party will not be revealed for another fifty years under the rules for the competition. On its face it seems extraordinary, even unique, to have a statesman win the prize before he has achieved anything in either the areas of statecraft or peace. […]
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The Metrics of Education
Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by Robert Voris.
“Look to the left. Look to the right. Two out of every three of you will have dropped out by graduation.” – Ovidio Martinez, Vice Principal, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Fresno, CA, 1996. We showed him, though. Almost 700 of us walked in our robes out of a starting freshman class of 1500. Well above […]
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David Frum – The Man That Knows Too Much?
Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by Nicholas Martinez.
David Frum – – some people praise him, others want to run him out of politics completely. Some even think that he’s so politically confused, that he might just have a Jekyll and Hyde complex. But, what many people can agree on is that he loves drawing attention to himself. In his his most recent […]
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Chicago, Obama Lose Olympic Bid: Mass Media Hysteria Ensues
Posted on 03. Oct, 2009 by Collin Orcutt.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Yesterday, Chicago lost its bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games. One of four finalist cities, Chicago was cut in the first round of voting (receiving only 18 of a possible 94) by the International Olympic Committee, despite the presentations delivered by President Obama, wife Michelle and […]
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What A Wonderful World . . .
Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by Nicholas Martinez.
I woke up this morning in such a good mood. I beat Halo 3: ODST (it was a short campaign, but one hell of a game. 8.5 out of 10), my Yankees clinched the AL East Division Title after sweeping the Red Sox this past weekend and I think I’ve finally found the future Mrs. […]
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Blood Money
Posted on 20. Sep, 2009 by Robert Voris.
“One death is a tragedy. One thousand deaths is a statistic.” – Joseph Stalin
More than 1,500 citizens have been slaughtered in Ciudad Juarez in the past year. On September 4, 18 people were lined up and executed in a drug treatment facility. Since January of 2007, almost 10,000 have died violently in Mexico.
In Afghanistan, the United States military is struggling to hold godforsaken mountains against a group of folks who would rather the last 600 years didn’t happen, much as the Soviets did in the 1980s.
Since 1964, various Colombian governments have fought paramilitary forces across the country. There have been abductions, assassinations, untold civilian suffering and blackmail against companies that do business in Colombia.
The cornerstone of this violence is the profits from the sale of drugs to addicts in the United States.
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On the Anniversary of 9/11, Let Us Pause
Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by Collin Orcutt.
“… So on this solemn day, at this sacred hour, once more we pause.” ~President Obama, from his 9/11 anniversary remarks To pause is a rarity. To pause is to stop, to stop is to make no progress, and to make no progress is to fall behind. This goes against the unspoken American doctrine of […]
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The Quality of Mercy
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by Robert Voris.
In 2004, the State of Texas murdered Cameron Todd Willingham. It planned the murder in advance, picking a date, time and method. Though he pleaded for mercy, the state showed none. The murder occurred in public, with plenty of witnesses on hand as Willingham protested his fate one last time and exhaled his final breath. Under Texas state law, the state of Texas should be executed.
