Manufacturing Ignorance
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By Jessica MacGilvray on May 29, 2011 - 8:54:19 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As our great country becomes more and more polarized and divided, more and more simple truths become unacceptable to more people.
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Starvation For Profit
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By Jessica MacGilvray on May 22, 2011 - 1:44:59 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C.
—The cost of food has doubled in the past two years. There are many injustices in this world, but few are so plainly wrong as the profiteering of food.
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Legislating Intolerance
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By Jessica MacGilvray on May 12, 2011 - 7:30:11 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C.—What if my sincerely held religious or moral belief made me unable to work with black people or with Hispanic people or women or Muslims?
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Values
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By Jessica MacGilvray on May 7, 2011 - 12:37:48 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C.—It is interesting to compare the rhetoric and actions of groups like National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and Focus on the Family (FOF).
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Union Uprising
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By Jessica MacGilvray on Apr 24, 2011 - 2:06:15 PM
WISCONSIN—The fracas in Wisconsin between the governor and the Public Sector Unions received considerable press play, the follow up activities received almost no coverage.
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Organizing Chaos
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By Henry Meyerding on Jan 16, 2011 - 8:46:27 AM
WASHINGTON D.C.—It is no surprise that government in the hands of people who do not believe in government does not work very well. They believe in profit.
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Oily Nightmare
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By Henry Meyerding on May 9, 2010 - 11:13:08 PM
WASHINGTON D.C.—The prospect of ruining the entire marine habitat of Atlantic Mexico and the Southern US is bad enough, but could there be worse damage?
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Creeping Conservatism
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By Henry Meyerding on Jun 28, 2009 - 5:08:43 PM
UNITED STATES—Why do so many people become more and more conservative of view as they get older? Quite often, people adopt views as seniors that they would have made fun of as teenagers.
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Education In America
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By Henry Meyerding on Mar 1, 2009 - 10:04:22 PM
I believe in government as more than a vehicle for comic relief, but sometimes you have to wonder about the collective intelligence of people drawn to government service as a profession.
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Banking Bandits
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By Henry Meyerding on Oct 19, 2008 - 9:41:33 AM
The thrift industry has concluded a major bailout deal with the federal government that will have us paying for their mistakes for decades to come. How and why did this debacle come about?
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Counter Education
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By Henry Meyerding on Nov 25, 2007 - 6:48:57 AM
It is so depressing to discuss labor issues or labor unions with the typical American worker. One after another come the same inane clichés that everyone has been taught, which they've never examined, but which they spout as if they'd thought them up.
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News Squint
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By on Sep 5, 2007 - 7:59:46 AM
All the news coverage about Senator Craig of Idaho and his alleged bathroom habits demonstrated very well how news coverage can be slanted to prove things that aren't so.
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In Their Court
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By Henry Meyerding on Jul 15, 2007 - 6:08:00 PM
The US Federal Appeals Court overturned a ruling by a lower court to shut down the NSA warrentless wiretap program implemented by the Bush administration. Now the case will go to the US Supreme Court. How they rule may set the tone for this nation for the next century.
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Impeachment
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By Henry Meyerding on May 6, 2007 - 7:45:00 PM
Impeachment is one of the most consistently misunderstood facets of American government and jurisprudence.
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Veteran Bush
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Labor Week
By Henry Meyerding on Mar 4, 2007 - 8:53:00 PM
It is not uncommon for the Bush administration to be caught in a lie. It is interesting to see how veterans respond to being blind sided by the very leaders they thought were most on their side.
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Amazing Free Press
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By Henry Meyerding on Feb 4, 2007 - 12:43:00 PM
Isn't it amazing how a free press manages to cover, or not cover the same evens (often in the same way) so consistently! How convenient, too. Much easier to just leave irresponsible journalism to the Internet.
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Postponed
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By Henry Meyerding on Dec 3, 2006 - 10:00:00 PM
A good friend of mine has a bumper sticker that says, "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." This illustrates a problem with funding social programs - the cost of the cure shows up on the current budget, but many of the costs and consequences of not funding the cure don't show up until today's office-holders have retired.
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Substance Abuse
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By Henry Meyerding on Nov 26, 2006 - 10:00:00 PM
What is the true measure of a nation? Gandhi said that you could measure the moral condition of a nation by looking at how it treated its poorest and weakest citizens. Cicero said that the nation lives through its deeds not its words. Jefferson said that the moral integrity of a people is shown by the place in the world to which its people aspire. I wonder what posterity will make of the legacy we prepare for them.
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Faith Based Graft
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By Henry Meyerding on Sep 3, 2006 - 10:00:00 PM
The 21st Century has broken new ground in the perversion of moral and ethical values—turning principles inside out in the name of personal advantage and profit. This has been made possible largely through the application of ignorance on a grand scale.
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Disconnected America
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By Henry Meyerding on Aug 27, 2006 - 10:00:00 PM
Our country is full of disconnects. More and more, the left hand has no clue what the right hand is doing. It's sad and it's also dangerous to be so incompetent, nationally.
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Fired For Cause
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By Henry Meyerding on Jul 9, 2006 - 7:50:00 PM
The University of Coloardo at Boulder has fired Professor Ward Churchill for his unorthodox views. They did it very carfully, with substantial documentation. It is a further source of irony that this act of institutional castration patterns so well its intellectual predecessors in method as well as mindset.
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Internet Unfettered
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By Henry Meyerding on Jul 2, 2006 - 7:26:00 PM
The telecommunications industry is lobbying hard to transform the Information Superhighway into a series of Information Turnpikes, all under the polite lie of reducing government regulation. What will this mean to the Internet?
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