29 Articles

Friday, June 19, 2009
Ground the Airbus?
(11 comments) We do not know if Air France Flight 447 was brought down by a lightning storm, a failure of speed sensors, rudder problems or pilot error. What we do know is that its plastic tail fin fell off and the plane fell almost seven miles into the ocean killing everyone aboard.

Monday, June 15, 2009
Extremism and Suffering Children
(1 comments) What does a shootout at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., the confessions of a Khmer Rouge jailer and the murder of a Kansas medical doctor have in common? The answer is "children," and how they suffer from being targeted and used by extremists to advance their own hateful agendas.

Friday, June 12, 2009
From the Comet and Airbus to the Spaceplane: The Future of Commercial Aviation
(3 comments) As commercial aviation becomes increasingly dependent upon computerized digital technology and less reliant upon hands-on human control, we have to consider the crash of Air France Flight 447 into the Atlantic Ocean, with the loss of all aboard, and other similar disasters in the light of our collective experience and expectations.

Thursday, May 14, 2009
Fear of Crime and Things to Come
(1 comments) The fear of crime strikes all who live with its dread, as well as those who are personally victimized. Fear keeps us from doing what we want to do; it causes us to distrust friends and to view strangers with prejudice; and it can trick us into trading freedom for a false sense of security.

Thursday, January 8, 2009
No Victors in the War on Dissent
(3 comments) Among the wars currently being fought by the American government is one in which there can be no winners. The "war on terrorism" has spawned an internal "war on dissent" in which everyone loses.

Monday, December 1, 2008
Making Smarter Cars Instead of Stupid Decisions
(1 comments) With sales grinding to a halt and their credit ratings plummeting, the Big Three cannot borrow sufficient funds in the credit markets to survive. Like drunks on a freeway, they are racing down the fast lane without a seat belt, holding a bottle in one hand and flipping off the public with the other, daring everyone else to stop them before they crash.

Sunday, November 9, 2008
America Has Already Changed
(1 comments) Barack Obama campaigned on a platform of "Change"; however, the fact of his election proves that America has already changed.

Sunday, October 26, 2008
Abortion: Government's Choice?
(9 comments) Any government having the power to prohibit abortions has the power to require abortions. Any government having the power to prohibit birth control has the power to forcibly sterilize women (and men).

Thursday, October 23, 2008
A Dream Ballot for 2008
Can you even dream about a National Ballot that will establish your authority, one in which you, rather than politicians, create the policy guidelines for your government and you, rather than hacked computers, decide whom you want to implement your policy?

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Economic Chaos and Political Survival
(2 comments) No matter how deeply we ordinary citizens dig into our pockets, we cannot financially compete with the powerful special interests. No matter how well we organize, we cannot match the influence of the financial and political insiders. No matter how often we march and picket, they will always beat us through the side door into the corridors of power.

Friday, October 3, 2008
Betrayed by the Bailout: The Death of Democracy
(24 comments) On this date, October 3, 2008, the American people were betrayed by those whom they had elected to represent them. Perhaps democracy in the United States is not dead; if not, it's on its deathbed. Resuscitation in the form of responsible representation is possible, but time is growing short.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Gore Presidency: An Alternative History
(9 comments) An alternative history about what might have happened in the U.S. had Justice Kennedy voted for Gore rather than Bush

Monday, September 22, 2008
The Triple Whammy of Bigotry in the 2008 Election
(1 comments) We will soon know whether Barack Obama and the American people have suffered a single, double, or triple whammy and we will all suffer from the assault. Single Whammy - Overt and Latent Racism; Double Whammy - Religion, Sex and Other Prejudices; Triple Whammy - Class Disenfranchisement

Thursday, September 18, 2008
Valuable, Voluntary and Educational National Youth Service
(2 comments) Irrespective of who's anointed at the presidential coronation in January, many more Americans will soon be performing national service, including compulsory military tours of duty in the never-ending War Against Terror and the soon-to-be-announced Wars Against Sedition, Starvation, Unemployment, and Internal Insurrection, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Saturday, September 13, 2008
Deliver Us From Chaos: Ten Political Commandments
(1 comments) From a political standpoint, chaos theory requires us to consider the effect of a vice president flapping his lips on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf or in the former U.S.S.R. republic of Georgia on starting World War III or Cold War II.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
ROBOCOPS: PROFESSIONAL POLICING OF POLITICAL PROTEST
(1 comments) Last week, hundreds of protesters in St. Paul were arrested outside the Republican National Convention by helmeted police officers wearing black uniforms and full body armor reminiscent of scenes from the 1987 movie, RoboCop featuring: "Part man. Part machine. All Cop. The future of law enforcement."

Sunday, August 31, 2008
Holding Murderers Accountable: The Case Against Bush, Cheney, et al
(2 comments) Those whom we empower by our vote to either serve us in Congress or to lead our nation as president have a duty to use the power we give them to ensure accountability for its abuse. They have a duty to focus and to maintain attention on the most egregious and deadly violations of our laws and to not allow murder to go unpunished.

Sunday, August 24, 2008
America's Economic Future: Nightmare or Vision?
Offers a dynamic vision of the future and offers solutions for the interrelated issues of taxation, social security, retirement, health care and economic stimulus.

Monday, August 18, 2008
A Vision for Change: An American Energy Policy
(3 comments) Highlights the pitfalls of Obama's energy policy and offers an alternative and imaginative vision of an America that decided to generate the energy to power its national highways from outer space.

Saturday, February 16, 2008
Concentration Camps in America: The Consequences of 40 Years of Fear
(15 comments) Although Internet reports of the best known concentration camps in America are not supported by the facts, there is abundant evidence that the Bush Administration plans to declare martial law and is busily getting ready to do so. The calendar may say 2008, but, increasingly, we're living in 1984. America may not have concentration camps yet, but we're sure enough working on 'em.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The Iraq War Trial
(2 comments) The Democrats now have a golden opportunity to show the world how a democratic republic should work and what freedom's really all about. Democrats can fulfill the will of the people and do what's right by immediately holding hearings to establish whether Congress should fund an illegal war, and if so how much and under what conditions.

Friday, November 2, 2007
A Brief on the Use of Water Torture by American Officials in the War on Terrorism
(4 comments) A Brief submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the use of waterboarding as an interrogation technique and its implications in the appointment of Michael B. Mukasey to be Attorney General of the United States.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
War Without Win: A White Paper On Iran
(12 comments) Instead of attacking Iran, the United States should immediately reestablish diplomatic relations, negotiate unconditionally, and ensure Iran's protection from armed attack by Israel or any other nation under a comprehensive policy that seeks to avoid the expansion of nuclear weapons to Iran and all other nations and to disarm all nations within ten years.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Make Scholars -- Not War
Is the education of our children so critical to the future of our society that we should think of it in the same terms as national defense? What can we do to preserve public education, the very institution that set our nation on the path to greatness?

Monday, January 29, 2007
ONE HEALTH CARE POLICY – INDIVISIBLE – WITH BENEFITS FOR ALL
As a part of a comprehensive health care policy, we should establish a National Health Academy, whose graduates become professional officers in a National Health Corps.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
A Just and Fair Tax
(4 comments) Wouldn't it be more sensible and much fairer to simply tax the movement of money in our economy? Not a sales tax, not a value added tax, not a flat income tax, but rather a simple toll on every financial transaction that occurs within our economic system.

Monday, January 15, 2007
Hitler's Bulge -- Bush's Surge
A comparison between the administrations of Hitler and Bush and the Battle of the Bulge and Bush's Surge

Friday, May 12, 2006
Energy For The New Millennium
(1 comments) An alternative to $4 gasoline and enslavement to corrupt energy companies and undemocratic governments.

Saturday, April 15, 2006
This George Is No Washington
A compare and contrast between George Washington and George W. Bush