News & Society
"Blame It On Gay Marriage… $1,000 Reward."
By Paul Sterling · 18 years ago
The US environmental policy is being dismantled by a government in denial, while more and more evidence pours in about global warming (small things like hurricane Katina).
Politicians cry about our dependency on foreign oil ...
Are too many political candidates campaigning in "the Cave"?
By Hal Gieseking · 18 years ago
Is negative political advertising harmful or helpful in getting political candidates elected today?. This article examines some of the moral highground politicans give up if they sink too low in attacking their opponents. It uses ...
Murder, Policies and Procedures
By Dot Olonovich · 18 years ago
On a recent Sunday, the Philadelphia Inquirer shocked our local community by stating the obvious: "Even after the carnage at an Amish school in Lancaster County last week, a spot check by Inquirer reporters found ...
Terrorism in Kashmir – India
By Jennifer Taylor · 18 years ago
India is fighting the terrorists in kashmir since 1989. Pakistan fought three war on kashmir- 1947-48, 65, 1971. but his every attempt to snatch kashmir from india become futile. Pakistan army understood the edge of ...
Navy Seal dies the hero’s death in Iraq
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
It may surprise you to learn that during the entire Iraq war and post war engagement period, only two of the elite Navy Seals have paid the ultimate price of service. I remember when the ...
Coup in Paradise
By John King · 18 years ago
Sprouting like a flower in the rough yet beautiful red sea Thailand sports some of the most spectacular sites within Asia . A land of elephants, beaches, and beautiful women, Thailand is a hotbed for ...
"America's Goliath, IRS code sec 501(c)(3)?"
By Randall Fisher · 18 years ago
Has anyone noticed all the hoopla recently about the non profit status of the church? Many have become concerned. It seems that ministers have not read this code. The censorship in this code, is in ...
North Korea – Yes, you have our attention
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
North Korea has tested a low yield nuclear device with 4% of the destructive power of the bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II. Some believe ...
The Freedom Tower – Signature of the New World Trade Center Complex
By Fabiola Groshan · 18 years ago
The new World Trade Center complex currently under construction in Manhattan, New York City is a very ambitious project designed to fulfill multiple roles: stand out as a symbol for national strength and freedom, pay ...
Terrorism – A Major Concern Worldwide
By Fabiola Groshan · 18 years ago
In an already insecure society dominated by crime, conflict and injustice, terrorism has a major impact on global level, having the ability to generate panic, chaos and destruction of indescribable proportions. Terrorism adds even more ...
Triumph Forsaken
By Mark Moyar · 18 years ago
The effects of the South Vietnamese government's poor performance from Ngo Dinh Diem's death until the middle of 1965 have been understood widely, but its causes have not. According to one standard explanation, the Saigon ...
African Countries Must Speed Up Enacting Biosafety Laws
By James Wachai · 18 years ago
Opponents of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) regularly cite lack of biosafety policies as the main reason why there should be no rush to introduce genetically modified crops in Africa. I agree with them on this, ...
Disney / ABC deserve credit-Sept. 11th ABC movie
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
It is rare, rare indeed when a major media entity bucks the trend, and does what it believes in. Recently ABC under Disney’s guidance aired the $40 million production, “The Path to 9/11”. This was ...
Afghanistan given up to the warlords
By John Taylor · 18 years ago
Fifteen thousand American soldiers, helped by two thousand back-up troops of the allied troops, try, without much success, to ensure a pretence of order in Afghanistan. The presidential election wanted by Washington is quite unable ...
Sept. 11th ABC movie-Historically accurate
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
Sometimes Hollywood does get it right. The landings at the beaches of Normandy in the Steven Spielberg movie, “Saving Private Ryan” is a vivid, stunning, blood and gore portrayal of the horror that young American ...
The War on Truth
By Amy Goodman · 18 years ago
President George W. Bush has long preferred illusion to reality. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to ...
Croc Hunter and the notion of risk in business and life
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
Steve Irwin the international crocodile hunting celebrity from Australia died while filming a new TV program on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. A videotape of the incident is purported to show Irwin on one side of ...
Sumner Redstone Fires Viacom CEO Tom Freston
By Geoff Gannon · 18 years ago
On Monday, Sumner Redstone fired Viacom’s CEO, Tom Freston. Yesterday, Viacom announced that its Board of Directors had appointed Philippe Dauman President and CEO and Thomas Dooley Senior Executive V.P. and Chief Administrative Officer (a ...
Katrina: The Big One
By John Burnett · 18 years ago
Storm refugees, nearly all of them black, are on the move throughout the city. And they are refugees, as in, people fleeing misfortune and seeking refuge. NPR and other news organizations caved to pressure from ...
What Does It Really Mean To Be A Real U.S. Citizen?
By David Maillie · 18 years ago
It means we have rights. Rights that many have fought for and given their lives for. Unfortunately in current America there is, for the most part, two separate classes of citizenship, a bipartisanship if you ...