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Curt Day is a religious flaming fundamentalist and a political extreme moderate. Curt's blogs are at http://flamingfundamentalist.blogspot.com/ and http://violenceorsurvival.blogspot.com/

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SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 7, 2012
We Are Dehumanizing Society We are in the process of dulling people's sense of what it means to be human. We are losing touch with our feelings and losing our freedom because our uncritical acceptance of technology, the rules of business, and authoritarianism. And we will hurt our future if we don't change.
(20 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 15, 2011
Where Is The Beef Against Socialism? Since what Conservatives object to the most in Socialism is its image, we might do better to continue to bring up Socialistic issues and beliefs without bringing up the label.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 10, 2010
What And What Not To Say To A Marine What we should and should not say to those in the Marines and in any other branch of the military should mix respect for their position and intentions with a challenge not to be used as hired guns.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 13, 2009
A Few Good Problems With Conservative Values Conservatives pride themselves on their values. The core values that define Conservatives often show problems for the typical American and especially the American Conservative Christian.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 4, 2007
Why I Hate "24" I hate the show "24" because of how the hero, Jack Bauer, resembles the way Americans wish to see our nation. As our nation behaves as this TV character does, it endangers its future.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 31, 2009
Is Health Care A Right, Privilege, Or A Barometer? Asking if health care is a right or a privilege might be asking the wrong question to a democratic society. Rather, we should ask what our health care system says about how our society values human life.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 16, 2012
Paul Ryan Does A 360 Degree About-Face On Ayn Rand Paul Ryan has recently been distancing himself from Ayn Rand and has thus pulled a flip-flop since he use to be a big fan. However, when one examines Ryan's views, not only has he not changed his mind on Ayn Rand, his views on her are insignificant the policies he is advancing.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 11, 2013
Reflections On The Occupy Movement For 2013 Though the Occupy Movement is not grabbing the headlines it use to, it is alive and well though some think otherwise. Those who are disappointed because of the dropoff in participation need to persevere in what the Occupy Movement is doing and saying. In addition, we need to treat the "1%" as opponents to win over than enemies to conquer.
(40 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 18, 2012
Who Will Rescue Us From Post 9-11 Thinking? Noting that starting with George W. Bush's presidency, our government continues to reach for more power. This quest, along with its acceptance by the American people, is based on Bush's analysis of the 9-11 attacks. To stop the government's power grab, we must readdress this analysis and reeducate our fellow Americans as to why we were attacked.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 21, 2006
Who Is Winning the War on Terror? Will we win the War on Terror by forcing Western Authoritarianism over Islamic Jihad Authoritarianism?
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 14, 2011
America's Socialists Need New Symbols America's Socialists need to come up with new symbols and emblems for Socialism so that we can distinguish what we believe in from both actual and pretend forms of Socialism. To not do so will only hinder our cause
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 20, 2008
REAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS WE'D LIKE TO SEE A political rant on today's presidential candidates.
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Eenie Meenie, Chili Beanie, The Founding Fathers Are About To Speak When conservatives use the Founding Fathers to dictate the direction of our country, they use their idealized picture of the Founding Fathers to bolster their own authority. In addition, using the Founding Fathers to define what it means to be American takes away Americans' freedoms.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, January 12, 2008
A New Pledge And Allegiance Are Needed Rather than being concerned about the whether the phrase "one nation, under God," is in the Pledge Of Allegiance; we should question whether the traditional Pledge of Allegiance reflects where we are as a country and where we want to be as people.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Obama's Ironic Support For American Exceptionalism Obama's support for American Exceptionalism is ironic since, like racism, it is based on a group claiming superiority. Besides the irony, there are moral reasons for opposing our exceptionalism.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 27, 2012
The Boy Who Cried War With Iran It could be that the rumors of an upcoming war with Iran are merely a ruse to divert people's attention from our real threats. Regardless, the same people benefit from this ruse as would from an actual war.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 5, 2011
Hedges' Choice Of Words Is Unfortunate While Hedges' charges that Fundamentalism in America, particularly Christian Fundamentalism, true, though having merit, is wrong. Exceptionalism is what Hedges is really writing against and we need to distinguish between the two.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 27, 2009
Blinded By The Blind Side Despite its good qualities, the movie "The Blind Side" reinforces attitudes and belief in a system that oppresses people with poverty.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 18, 2012
Greed Kills Though we will be able to choose between Presidential candidates this November, we will not be able to vote against a greed driven economy. This is despite the consequences of living selfishly. Our only choice is to join the resistance.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 19, 2010
Why Opposing The Ground Zero Mosque Is UnAmerican The Conservatives object to the building of the Ground Zero Mosque because it shows both an insensitivity to New Yorkers and the 9-11 victims' families and a sign of domination. But such objections become suspect when the building of this Mosque is compared with American acts of insensitivity and domination.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 25, 2012
There Is More Than One Way To Resist The Status Quo One can resist the status quo without engaging in civil disobedience. Just by replacing society's conventions that contribute to the abuse of others with our own individual practices, we can disrupt the exploitation of others which our way of life depends on.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 24, 2010
The Paths To Middle East Peace Lie In America's Past If America's past is an accurate predictor, peace will come to the Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When we use America's history as a guide, there are two ways by which this peace will come. It will come either through the way America achieved peace with its indigenous population or through the promotion and practice of equality.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 1, 2010
The Road To A Corporate Republic: Are We There Yet Part 1 The recent Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United v Federal Election Commission repairs past damage more than it introduces something ominous.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 3, 2007
Has Patriotism Become A Religion? It is time to ask if patriotism has become a religion because of how far some of its followers will go in defending all of its actions as well as prosecuting all of its critics.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 12, 2012
Voting For BarMitt RomBama A review of a Bush-Obama presidencies tell us that if Romney is like Bush, whom he has not distanced himself from, then voting for Romney will be much like voting for Obama.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 18, 2008
The Golden Rule And The New And More Ominous Missile Crisis Because the US is threatening Russia primarily by arranging for missile interceptors to be placed in former Soviet Bloc nations and secondarily by moving NATO east, Russia is making dangerous threats and acting like a cornered animal. The Golden Rule provides one way out of a deadly future that will come if we continue on our present course.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 16, 2008
When a Bad President Sets a Bad Precedent for a Bad President An often overlooked fringe detriment to our invasion of Iraq is the example it provides for other countries. Russia's invasion of Georgia is a case in point.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 1, 2007
The Dark Side Of Christianity Christians often lose their Christianity when they try to make their nation a Christian nation.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Obama Will Unite The Left Against His No-Fly Zone Although some from the Left currently agree with Obama's no-fly zone, as time goes on and Obama strays from his no-fly zone, more of those on the Left will line up to oppose this new Obama policy.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Is The Rally To Restore Sanity Preventing Change? Rather than restoring sanity, as its name proposes, The Daily Show's Rally To Restore Sanity might just be another attempt to maintain the status quo.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 13, 2012
To Be Violent Or Not To Be Violent, That Is Not The Only Question Chris Hedges' latest article initiated a debate on using violence that goes beyond asking whether or not we use violence to protest to asking why we should or should not use violence in the first place.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Another Army-Navy Game, Another Perspective The Army-Navy football game has become a showcase of both athletics and, unfortunately, blind obedience to authority. Considering our current wars, perhaps it is time to rethink our actions and values
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 21, 2013
Money Rules! The decision not to prosecute HSBC officials for their crimes is proof positive that if one has enough money, one has immunity from the law. Therefore, that we have groups of people who are no longer under the same laws as the rest is proof positive that we are no longer under the rule of law. Finally, if the rest of us tolerate this, we will be just as guilty as those with this immunity.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 17, 2011
State Budgets And The Frog Pennsylvania's Governor Corbett avoided the mistake made by Wisconsin's Governor Walker by not attacking unions and collective bargaining. Thus, the protests have yet to occur. Will Pennsylvanians wake up from their slumber before it is too late.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 10, 2009
Obama's Prize Is Bush's Fault Obama's award jut might be due to the fact that he is not George Bush than because of his work to establish peace. That is because, to be truthful, Obama has not been working for peace.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 15, 2010
A Tale Of Two 9-11 Protests The rally supporting the building of the "Ground Zero Mosque" spoke against bigotry while the protest against it emphasized the need to stop what they consider to be evil.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 6, 2011
America Needs A N.A.P. It is time that all Americans protest the coming austerity cuts. It is not enough to just insist on collective bargaining. Rather, we must oppose the coming cuts in spending as well as undo the conditions that are causing the states deficits.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 14, 2010
A Couple Of Menacing Medical Metaphors To Watch Both cancer and anesthesia provide 2 ominous metaphors for the future of our country.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 24, 2012
Will Our Apathy Make Russia Our Future How the Russian punk rock group p*ssy Riot is protesting is not the issue. What they are protesting is. And the conditions they find abhorrent could occur here if we remain apathetic.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 22, 2011
There Still Be Drums In Zuccotti Park A recent visit to Zuccotti Park showed that there is life after a violent eviction.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 20, 2007
President AhmaBUSHnejad Though the denials of past genocides are different in nature, Presidents Ahmadinejad and Bush imitate each other as one denies the Holocaust while the other refuses to call a genocide a genocide.
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 30, 2013
What Should We Do With The 1%? Instead of vilifying the 1%, the Occupy Movement needs to help them see the financial and social harm they do to others. By doing so, we might win a few over to the cause of the Occupy Movement as well as show, through those who don't change, how some of them want does not belong to them.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Will The Peace Movement Survive Obama Or Will We Perish? The Peace Movement has lost many participants to those campaigning for the Democratic Party. The question becomes what will happen now that the Democrats have won? Regardless of what these Democrats do, for the Peace Movement to succeed, it must rely on the principles provided by past leaders like King and Gandhi.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 15, 2009
Will America Have the Courage to Do ... The world should consider responding to the U.S. as it is currently responding to Israel. That is as parts of the world are participating in boycotts and other actions against Israel, the same should done to America for its complicity in Israel's crimes as well as its own crimes.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 10, 2011
The Sun Is Rising In The East, Again Much inspiration can come from the pro-democracy/anti-government protests in Egypt but only if we stand in solidarity with them and at least partially imitate what they are doing. But considering our penchant for comfort and ease, we have a lot of work to do just to get started.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Caring Sucks! Despite all of the attraction that being a caring person has, it can be hazardous to your life.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 3, 2011
A Tale Of Two Mass Murders The different ways in which we react to murder such as the mass murder committed by Jared Loughner and that committed by our military as shown in the video "Collateral Murder" sends mixed messages about the value of human life to both the healthy and unhealthy in our society.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 19, 2009
How Do You Solve A Problem Like North Korea? Currently, North Korea has been issuing threats to its neighbors and the US. With its nuclear capability, we are stuck between having to respond and being careful not to start a regional war. How we solve this problem, regardless of any immediate success, will help determine whether our future will contain sequels of North Korea.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 9, 2007
Should The Eagle Be A Symbol For A Christian Nation? Unfortunately, many American Christians embrace the Eagle as a national symbol. As we observe the predatory nature of the Eagle, we note that though the Eagle is an apt symbol for our country, it is not a symbol that reflects the teachings of Jesus.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 2, 2007
Will America's Idle Be America's Downfall Most Americans oppose the war and yet they are participating less and less in today's protests. We need to see why this is the case so we can move them to speak out and change the direction of our country before it is too late.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 11, 2010
If Leaking Information Is Wrong, Should Wikileaks Want To Be Right? Whether what Wikileaks is doing is right or not depends on the information they have leaked and their intentions. So far, not only are they doing what is right, we should ask how we can support them.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 14, 2009
Did Von Brunn Kill Out Of Hate Or For Loyalty? Certainly, James Von Brunn killed because he hated others. But was loyalty to his group, his race, also a motivation for his actions? And if so, do we join in his sin when we advocate killing for our group even when our most significant group is not our race, but our nation?
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 18, 2009
Will The Real Palestinian Solution Please Stand Up A number of proposals have been made provide a solution for the Palestinian Question. Unfortunately, these proposals do not include the necessary ingredient of equality without which there will be a never ending conflict.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Gorillas In Our Midst Our society is being overrun by gorillas. We are not referring to the literal animal such as the ones in a zoo but by the kind from the movie, "The Planet of the Apes." Our gorillas are the aggressive ones who seek to dominate. They rule our public sector and freely roam throughout parts of our private sector such as in our financial institutions. And our only hope is to outnumber and outlast them.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 15, 2012
Restoring Impotence Just as Society many Blacks use to feel that they were powerless before Whites, our current system is trying to make Americans feel that they are powerless before the government and those who pay for that government.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Prognosis For Change Under Obama In determining whether we will experience change from Obama, two criteria stood out: American Exceptionalism and domestic financial paternalism. If there is no change in either, then whatever change Obama does bring is merely a change of facade rather than a renovation of the building.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 14, 2008
Revolution Today Or Death Tomorrow Because of our advancing technology and our refusal to learn from History, people are on a collision course with their demise. To avoid our elimination, we need a revolution that addresses why we refuse to practice peace.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 27, 2011
OWS Is Both Footloose And Noah's Arc OccupyWallStreet's contribution to our lives is that it provides an inspiration and example of a different way of being together. Their example is not just an exercise in freedom, it may be the only way to save us from the coming doom of our present system.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 24, 2007
Dress For Success, Vote For Failure We are being pushed to continue an unhealthy tradition of choosing Presidents by appearances. It is time to change.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Try The President, Save The World If today's peace movement is to succeed, then we cannot be content with the mere cessation of the War On Iraq. We must also demand that President Bush stands trial for war crimes. This is both a lesson that history teaches us and an action that could reduce the chances that the world will suffer catastrophic attacks with WMDs
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 24, 2007
Who Will Be The Best Actor At Annapolis? History dictates that we prepare for Annapolis by recognizing the best actor with an award. Who will win the award? We don't know but here are the signs to look for.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The Road To A Corporate Republic: Are We There Yet Part 2 Corporations not only control our government, they control us. They do so by making us dependent on them for almost everything we need. As a result, the general public has neither the ability nor the willingness to break away and become free from its influence.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 26, 2010
How Government Is Like Love By comparing the relationship between a government and its people with the relationship between two lovers, not only do we get a better idea of how the government should treat its people, we realize that we have committed ourselves to an insane relationship by enable our government to cheat on us.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Between a High Debt and a Hard Place At best, the current debt ceiling resolution does nothing more than prolong our financial demise. The only way to reverse course is through changing our tax structure.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 9, 2009
What Obama Didn't Say About A Palestinian State Obama' speech in Egypt did not promise anything new for the Palestinians. If he had, then he would have spoken of a Palestinian state that would be an equal to Israel
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Informed Student Activists Are Needed Student activists will soon lobby their representatives for increased funding. But unless they do so with the big picture in mind, they will only end up in a competition with others who are in need for state funds.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, December 7, 2008
Save Money, Live Better, or Die The tragic trampling death of a Wal-Mart employee on Black Friday might be just an extreme example of an evil that we call "The American Dream."
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 23, 2008
Fun In DC With SDS March 19th provided a variety of protests in Washington, DC. Based on my time there, the SDS protests were the most fun to attend. However, some SDS members, as evidenced by their responses to the police, need to prepare for future protests by adopting Martin Luther King's passion to win people over. But despite their youthful flaws, the suffering that exists in today's world requires that these kids speak out.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 11, 2012
How Candidates Are Like Harlots There are similarities between the story of the harlot and her prey in Proverbs 7 with today's political candidates and the American voter.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The First Debate Was Just More Of The Same Unfortunately, all we saw in a debate between two candidates who are promising change was more of the same. This more of the same could especially be seen in the messages of the candidates.
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, January 6, 2007
Why Being Pro-Life Should Include Being Pro-Palestinian Pro-lifers seek to protect the unborn because they believe in the equality of all human life. A consistent belief in the equality of all human life would then require one to be pro-Palestinian as they seek to have their own state.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 20, 2007
Listening Is Patriotic Too! One of today's national debates is on whether supporting the troops or dissent is patriotic. But there is another act that is just as patriotic. That act is listening. Listening is Patriotic because it allows us to fully benefit from the 1st Amendment.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 3, 2013
A New Year's Resolution For Survival What is needed to for the human race to survive is a New Year's resolution that forsakes blind loyalty to any of the groups we belong to. That is because what most threatens our existence is the combination of an ever-advancing and accessible technology and tribalism.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 27, 2008
Random Thoughts On A Vague Election From the candidates' refusal to answer questions to the voters' refusal to fully examine the candidates, we are being led to place our hopes in another election.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 15, 2008
Antiwar Activists Should Not Let Antiwar Activists Vote Democratic Currently, the two remaining Democratic candidates object to the Iraq War for business rather than ethical reasons. Thus, we can conclude that neither candidate is truly antiwar. And since neither candidate is antiwar, antiwar activists should vote for third party and independent candidates in order to stop war and promote peace.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 20, 2008
A 60th Anniversary that Resembled America On the 60th anniversary of an important Middle East event, a commemoration was held outside the UN in New York City. The event resembled what America stands for by the "melting pot" of speakers who spoke, the openness of the event, and the calls for peace and justice.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 26, 2007
The Differences Between Us Peacenics And Them Warniks As we prepare for a series of antiwar protests this fall, we must prepare to respond to counter-demonstrators who celebrate war. We can do so by recognizing the differences between us and them and by looking at our pro-war counterparts as people to win over.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 3, 2007
An Open Letter To Canada Asking For A Place To Stay
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 4, 2008
Are Massive War Protests Gone With The Wind? Another protest against the war, another disappointingly small crowd. Certainly there are reasons why fewer are protesting the war. But with those reasons comes lost opportunities.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 12, 2007
How To Encounter Patriotic Counter-Demonstrators Before responding to the taunts of patriotic counter-demonstrators, antiwar protesters should think about the following. First, we should think about what we have in common with the counter-demonstrators. Second, we should think about the how we differ and identify their logical errors. Third, we need to remember where we are lest we discredit ourselves in how we respond to them.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 11, 2008
Let Rachel Corrie's "Let Me Stand Alone" Keep You Company This is a review of the recently published book: "Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals Of Rachel Corrie". What I learned was that Rachel's compassion for those who suffered gave her a wisdom that few learn.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 14, 2006
What The Foley Scandal Can Teach Us About Terrorism As horrible as the Foley scandal was, perhaps we can use the experience to help us understand and better react to other problems. This can be the case when we apply what we know about Foley's abusive behavior and abuse in general to how we should confront terrorism.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 29, 2007
Bush And Kerry Are Sitting In A Tree Though Kerry refuted President Bush's last speech regarding his policies in Iraq, he agreed with Bush on a fatally flawed point: that American actions did not cause the previous terrorist attacks against us. This point must forever be challenged history for our future's sake.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Who Hurts America more, Guiliani or Moveon.org? When first comparing the advertisements by Guiliani and Moveon.org, we are tempted to like the positive ad and hate the negative one. Yet the positive support that Guiliani's ad gives Petraeus just might be a wolf in sheep's clothing.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 3, 2008
Is the Surge's Success a Delusion? Despite the blitz of reports supporting the surge, not all of the statistics agree. And yet, our opposition to the War on Iraq should not be based on the success of the surge; but rather, our opposition to the war must be based on moral values.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 28, 2006
Breaking The Two Party Addiction Our democracy is ruled by a two party system that is designed to limit our choices. Thus our leaders and candidates neither listen to the people nor work to provide real solutions. Our only hope of changing our government is to work to create more choices by electing third party candidates.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 30, 2007
Without Dissent Soon we will be seeing a surge in protests against the war. And though the government will probably not respond favorably to our dissent, we should not grow weary. To realize how important our demonstrations are, imagine our country without having the right to dissent. And if dissent had not occurred in the past, think of where we would be now. Our dissent will affect our country positively only if we persist and are peaceful.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Why There's No Peace In The Middle East The reason why there is no peace in the Middle East is because the involved leaders are commited to using violence. Thus to achieve peace, we the people of each involved society must act as managers over our leaders.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Will Change Be In The Air This January Despite the hopes of many, a number of indicators point to a future that lacks significant change under an Obama Presidency. These indicators include the identity of his key contributers and his refusal to call the Iraq War immoral.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 6, 2009
On Health Care, War, And Football The goal post used in football well illustrates how we the people are guided into hold acceptable those diverse views. What is an acceptable view depends on who benefits.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 7, 2006
Is America The Home Of The Brave? Some mistakenly think that we can measure America's courage by our willingness to fight. But such courage is vicarious valor because the only ones showing bravery are our troops and their families. For America to show that it is the home of the brave, we must be willing to change. Changing how we vote by voting for third party candidates is one way to show our courage.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Unhappy 4th Anniversary to the Iraq War This 4th anniversary of the Iraq war should cause us to reflect on why we have both started and remain in this war. Faulty reasons why we started the war included acting on available intelligence and liberating Iraq. Faulty reasons why we remain in Iraq include the price of failing and how it might both help our enemy and hurt American prestige. Therefore, we should continue to protest until the war is over.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 28, 2007
Hey Hill, Wasn't Bill The First Bush-Lite? Though initially repulsed by the Bush-lite label from Obama, there are multiple reasons why Hillary should embrace the description rather than run from it. Not only that, she should complain that Obama is not Bush-lite.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 29, 2008
Acknowledging Another UnWanted Milestone In Iraq How should we recognize the death of the 4,000th American troop when it occurs? By realizing our part in their deaths. Then, perhaps, we will honor our troops sacrifices by ending the war now!
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 8, 2006
What Would Jesus Say At The UN? While Presidents Bush, Chavez, and Ahmadinejad gave UN speeches that praised themselves and condemned their enemies, the world came no closer to peace. Jesus' parable of the two men praying contains a lesson that if practiced by these leaders, could bring the world closer to peace.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 19, 2007
Lead, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way: Aggressive Driving And American Foreign Policy Our attitudes towards our aggressive driving habits can explain our attitudes towards our foreign policies. Just as we deny the effects of our aggressive driving habits so we can feel free to drive as we please, we do the same with our foreign policies. We need to change and take responsibility for our actions to avoid hurting others and ourselves.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Betting On The Ceasefire Despite the claims to the opposite, there were no winners from the latest Lebanese-Israeli war. There were lessons to be learned that could prevent future wars. Otherwise, because of technology, there will be a future war that will destroy us all.

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