Consumer Confidence Not Matched by Reality
A closer look behind the Conference Board's rosy consumer confidence survey released on Monday reveals an economy, at the individual and family level,...
Opinion
Republicans, Big Government, and Daniel Somers
The suicide note of Iraq War veteran Daniel Somers sheds light on the logical inconsistencies and moral confusion of Republicans. ...
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Random Thoughts
Edmund Burke said, "There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men." Evil men do not...
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Amnesty v. Reason
To believe the Gang of Eight, one must be a fool. To spout its nonsense, one must be a liar. ...
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Obama’s Plunging Popularity
What a difference a month can make. Last month, a majority of Americans said they liked the job President Barack Obama was doing...
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Motives Aside, the NSA Should Not Spy on Us
You need not suspect the motives of those responsible for NSA surveillance to detest what they are doing. In fact, we may have...
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FRACKNATION: A Journalist’s Search For the Fracking Truth
FRACKNATION takes viewers on a journey that includes visits both to fracking’s proponents and foes, interviews with government officials, commentary from scientific experts...
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Obama, Maybe Catholicism is “Divisive” — and Maybe That’s Good
It isn’t always true that “united we stand.” United in the wrong things we can fall, and sometimes, for some to stand on...
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Unasked and Unanswered Questions
What's the difference between a progressive, a liberal and a racist? In some cases, not much. ...
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Obama Speaks With Forked Tongue on Surveillance
The government’s response to Edward Snowden’s leaks about the National Security Agency’s secret monitoring of the Internet and collection of our telephone logs...
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Pres. Obama’s Secret CIA Hit Squad Detailed in “The Way of the Knife”
President Obama's secret CIA hit squad is detailed in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Mazzetti's book The Way of the Knife. ...
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People Die — Live With It
If there is one overlooked aspect of the current federal-government surveillance scandal, it’s modernist America’s attitude toward death. ...
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Aldous Huxley and NSA Leaker Edward Snowden
“In 1931, when Brave New World was being written, I was convinced that there was still plenty of time,” wrote Aldous Huxley in...
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Man of Steel Draws Strong Parallels Between Superman and Christ
A bird? A plane? Nope. A Superman remake. And a darn good one. Man of Steel is an exciting superhero flick with some...
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Unnecessary Tragedy
Why should people have to depend on altruism and voluntary donations to provide something that one day they may need more urgently than...
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