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Many Americans blame oil-producing Arab countries for driving up the price of gas to prohibitive levels. But American oil companies (like ExxonMobil) and the politicians whose careers they fuel are really the ones to blame. Click here to see why the wrath of Americans who are addicted to gas guzzling vehicles should be directed more… Read more.
Armchair BRAC commissioners Sen. John Warner (center), Gov. Mark Warner (right) and Sen. George Allen (left) vowed to fight – all for one and one for all – to save military installations in their state of Virginia from closure, regardless of their military value to America’s national defense! Yesterday was D-day for many communities in… Read more.
Is Lance Armstrong a legitimate sports hero or a cycling dope fiend who used his cocktail of cancer drugs to mask the illegal drugs he took to juice his body through 7 consecutive victories in the Tour de France? Lance, buddy, say it ain’t so…. In fact, Armstrong has repeatedly denied doping accusations and has… Read more.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? [Jesus Christ from the gospel according to Mark] Christian crusader Pat Robertson striking his imperial (Napoleonic) pose… Televangelist Pat Robertson is a devout proselytizer of Christian fundamentalist dogma which holds that America should have dominion over… Read more.
When television is good, nothing–not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers–nothing is better .But when television is bad, nothing is worse….Sit down in front of your television set [and] I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland. [Newton Minnow, May 1961] Note: This foreboding message was delivered before the advent of… Read more.
Besides the role of Islam, control of oil production will determine the character and viability of Iraq’s governing authority… This evening at midnight, in Baghdad, the arbitrary 7-day extension the National Assembly granted itself to complete Iraq’s contentious draft constitution expires. And, in order to form a more perfect union, Iraqi Shias and Kurds (who… Read more.
Last week, New Yorkers were treated to sensational details about a contentious love triangle that make the titillation manufactured by TV soap operas seem relatively tame. The stars of this reality melodrama were the rector of the largest Catholic Church in America, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, his married secretary and her cuckolded husband. Click here to… Read more.
Almost a month ago, I participated in a blogosphere campaign to compel American law enforcement officials to dedicate half the resources to find a black woman in Philadelphia, Latoyia Figueroa who was 5-months pregnant when she went missing, as they were dedicating to find Natalee Holloway in Aruba. The good news is that they finally… Read more.
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Dennis Radar displayed the jitters of an actor more than the remorse of a killer at his sentencing yesterday… Evil, like beauty, is [often] in the eye of the beholder. And, the moral relativism that now governs our lives makes what is deemed evil invariably debatable. For example, President Bush described Saddam Hussein as evil… Read more.
