Democracy and Stupidity
by Jonathan Wallace
George Bush is not smart enough to be President of the United States.... |
by Sarah Berman Campaign finance reform encompasses the populist impulse to equalize individuals. Limiting money would move the political system towards greater equality... |
by Seymour Schechtman Our incomparable, most successful, least efficient political system is again in full frenzy with its most important quadrennial function--the presidential ballet, quadrille, follies, or election! |
Rabbi Joshua Heller Next week, Jews around the world will observe Tisha B'av, mourning the destruction of the First and Second Temples and commemorating many other tragedies of Jewish history. |
By the International Action Center Thousands of youths poured into the streets of Philadelphia Aug. 1, surrounding the buses of Republican Convention delegates, blocking intersections and courageously holding their ground against heavily armed police. |
From Jim Warren Doesn't it make you proud to be an American, knowing that our government's "School of the Americas" has provided funding and military training for some of the most vicious military officers and police in Latin America's police states? |
by Larry Pratt, Gun Owners of America Considering the fact that the Episcopal Church in America has lost hundreds of thousands of members during the past two decades, you'd think that these folks would be doing everything possible to protect and preserve this endangered species of Christians. |
by Vin Suprynowicz The Bill of Rights has an integral structure, like a castle. Folks who believe they can give up one of the first 10 amendments to the claim of "compelling government interest" -- yet still keep the others intact -- are like soldiers who fight to defend nine of a castle's gates while leaving the tenth gate open and unguarded. |
I have not seen, heard, felt, smelled, or (God forbid!) tasted Mr. Lizard's brain. In fact, I have no quantifiable evidence of its existance. I must therefore conclude, by the scientific method, that Mr. Lizard has no brain. |
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