This is surely an example of one of the main differences between liberals and conservatives these days. The editorial below describes and criticizes the...
We academics are most fortunate to have a pension system, TIAA-CREF: http://www.tiaa-cref.com/ which is superbly managed, charges no fees, allows its...
I happened to catch a C-SPAN hour with YAF (used to be Young Americans for Freedom, but now apparently transmogrified into Young Americas Foundation:...
Why the use of quotation marks around "Left Wing" in the above title, but not around the term Right Wing? Assuming you think the term "Left Wing" is pejorative...
The reason was that this program -- mainly a diatribe by the YAF executive director (?) was characterizing any position that did not feature a list of right...
Okay, I'll look at the link more closely. Maybe you're right and they are mischaracterizing their targets as you suggest. But, as you know, I'm very sensitive...
I try to be sensitive to that, Stuart, but ideologies (your being libertarian) as well as religions tend to share reality to fit their conceptions of things....
... their ... As a non-dogmatic libertarian, I think there is less of that in my thinking than you suggest. However there certainly is some, as, I suspect,...
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR The Message Thing By JIM WALLIS Until Democrats are willing to be honest about the need for compelling political vision, they will never get...
... evangelicals -- ... was ... most ... Isn't it a bit presumptuous to suggest that, insofar as you can agree with him, "he gets most things right"? Granted...
I have a high regard for Jim Wallis. His whole key idea is that no one party has the monopoly of understanding of the Christian faith. I have to disagree with...
... shot ... Israel ... Yes, Israel needs to show restraint. But it will not be a lack of Israeli restraint that kills the peace process if it is ultimately ...
[One has to assume that those born without direct memories of those events are not aware of the extreme contempt Nazi (Gestapo) torture abuses engendered...
Once upon a time, a dangerous radical gained control of the US Republican Party. Details here: http://www.juancole.com/2005/08/fisking-war-on-terror-once-upon-...
American memories are short. I have not noticed a single mention of the assassination of Robert Kennedy, out best presidential hope in 1968, by Sirhan Sirhan:...
Blair Is Seeking to Curb Radicals Who Preach Hate By ALAN COWELL The new antiterrorism measures seem to nudge Britain toward policies adopted by the U.S. after...
swmaersky wrote: " ...many of our disputes here have revolved around our competing worldviews and how these shaped our take on particular claims of fact. You...
As a college teacher I am particularly aware of the fact that mental disorders tend to manifest themselves among adolescents and young adults -- particularly...
No one's forgotten Sirhan Sirhan, Ed, or at least I haven't. Actually I supported McCarthy for president back then, not RFK, though I certainly was troubled at...
Have no fear, Paxdora, I wouldn't dream of trying to engage you in a debate. But perhaps a comment or two. You can answer or not, as you ... to ... necessarily...
Stuart, it is always disconcerting to have words put in one's mouth. I no way did I absolve Sirhan of legal responsibility for his actions, which were...
Europe Zips Lips; U.S. Sells ZIPs By ERIC DASH The U.S. looks at privacy largely as a consumer and an economic issue; in the rest of the developed world, it is...
... mouth. I ... actions, ... and to ... naive ... "using naive ones"? What are you really saying here about Sirhan Sirhan and terrrorist bombers then? They...
It looks as though Mohamed Yousry is a scapegoat who is being imprisoned mainly on the basis of evidence from a dissertation which his advisors at NYU...
Letter from an Iraq War Veteran "I participated in the invasion, stayed for a year afterward, and what I witnessed was the total opposite of what President...
I am a lawyer, not a bomber Asians should not be prejudged because of the way we look Rabinder Singh Saturday August 6, 2005 The Guardian An open letter to the...
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