Category: Current Events

Looking back at the whole scene now, I don’t believe people really care about deficit spending. All they care about are jobs. Most of the first decade of this century was in deficit. No one cared because most everybody had a job that wanted one. Now that people don’t have jobs they are angry about…

I’m not ideological when it comes to politics. I just want to know the truth. Whenever a pundit or politician opens their mouth I might as well be listening to someone trying to convince me that Santa is totally real and will be coming to a chimney near me. The only thing I believe about…

On Jon Stewart Bill Clinton Calls Out the Tea Party Tea Partiers are being used. They are pawns in a game which is designed to weaken the federal government’s regulatory authority, because fewer regulations mean the ability to cut corners and reduce costs, which leads to increased profits. (the video is on that link above.…

I have been getting exhausted by news and politics recently. That’s a new development for me. Those have been some of my major forms of entertainment. But my Gulf Coast Oil Disaster experience really effected me. It made me completely distrust how current events are presented to the public. We, as viewers, have absolutely no…

I believe every story has two sides… at least. If you are truly interested in agriculture and the effects of GMO’s, I highly recommend you spend some time on the Monsanto blog itself. They are very open to allowing dissenting opinions and take a great deal of time and effort to make their case in…

From Michael Totten’s Blog:Michael Totten » Hey Ayatollah, Leave Those Kids Alone Take a look at the music video by Blurred Vision, an Iranian exile band based in Toronto. The song is a remake of “Another Brick in the Wall” by Pink Floyd, updated and changed ever so slightly to apply to Iran in 2010…

Check out this article. It’s from a scientist who thinks we can live forever:My bright idea: Aubrey de Grey on living longer | Science | The Observer I’m all for it

It’s truly rare for me to get an extremely clear perspective from a news organization that has a total different point of view. Educated Americans love to sight the BBC as “unbiased, unfiltered news.” It’s just news that fits with their own bias. I just read this fascinating story about the Dalai Lama: Dalai Lama’s…

Op-Ed Columnist – Paging Uncle Sam – NYTimes.com This is a Thomas Friedman (“Hot Flat and Crowded”) piece. He is writing it from Asia. There are many, many Americans who often feel embarrassed by their country and fellow countrymen. One reason is because we are so self-obsessed that we hardly acknowledge there are other countries…

I fight with a known prejudice I have concerning this whole economic thing. But I know I’m not the only one who does this. Factcheck.org points out an important fact: Why all the uncertainty among first-rate economists? Well, for one thing, economists have very little data with which to work. There are plenty of theoretical…

February 6, 2009 WASHINGTON  — U.S. President Barack Obama has announced that war against Winter has begun. In his address at 0315 GMT Thursday, Obama said: That every effort would be made to spare the lives of innocent civilians, But the campaign will be “broad and concerted” and will use “decisive force. No outcome but…