There’s a ballot in front of you. On it, there ...
›Susan Eisenhower, the granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, is an energy and international affairs expert and chairman emeritus of the Eisenhower Institute of Gettysburg College: “I’ve always found it rather haunting to watch old footage of my grandfather, Dwight Eisenhower, giving his televised farewell address to ...
›“I would rather have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it” is a nicely glib phrase that trips off the tongues of gun-toters and their interpretation of the 2nd amendment*. But on closer inspection you would have to understand the totally unbalanced equation between those people that have guns and those occasions when they need – or have needed – them. (Leaving out the factor of those who don’t have them and don’t need them.)And it begs the question that if semi-automatic ...
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When the boardroom took over the newsroom sometime in the 80s we lost an (the?) essential safeguard to our democracy and freedom. Where is the fearless journalism that brought down Nixon? Where are today’s campaigns against flagrant abuses of power? Iraq War? Illegal wiretaps? Wall Street piracy? If our leaders can operate without rigorous public scrutiny we leave ourselves horribly exposed and hostage to a predictably foreboding fortune. We live in an age in which the media wields immense ...
›If we happen to benefit from “lucky sperm” and achieve some universally-accepted standard of living in this ...
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