Buying Green
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By Henry Meyerding on Apr 6, 2008 - 9:12:51 PM
There's lots of talk these days about "green" products and how people can be supportive of environmental issues. But what can an ordinary person really do to make a difference to the global ecology?
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Good Government
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By Henry Meyerding on Apr 6, 2008 - 9:11:08 PM
There are basically two competing theories of government and they are at the heart of any discussion of what government is, what government should do and why it should do it.
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Silent Press
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By Henry Meyerding on Jan 20, 2008 - 9:07:26 PM
Critical analysts of the fourth estate have often noted that it is more interesting to note what is missing from mainstream media press coverage than what is reported. The two biggest tells of bias are the ubiquitous question and the unanimous silence.
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Poor Justice
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By Henry Meyerding on Dec 2, 2007 - 12:28:05 PM
The Supreme Court of the United States has just refused to hear a case involving the government requiring warantless searches of people's homes as a prerequisite to receiving benefits from public assistance. Evidently, poor people don't have any right to an expectation of privacy, that is reserved for people of means.
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Enemies
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By on Sep 15, 2007 - 9:41:20 AM
It is amazing how the media defines things for people. When the press labels something, right or wrong, the label acquires a permanence it does not deserve. If you watch how these labels change over time, and how they change everywhere at once, you can learn a great deal about how media is used to shape public perception.
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Katrina Logic
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By on Sep 5, 2007 - 8:01:15 AM
Two years later, and the disaster of Katrina is still an awful mess. Money's been squandered, in some cases stolen, and people are still homeless. Why can't the government deal with these problems? Because they don't want to.
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Ashamed of the Nation
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By on Jul 30, 2007 - 10:18:11 PM
We Americans have so much to be afraid of these days. We have become a nation driven by fear. Our children, our spouses, our brothers and sisters, and especially our parents are all at risk. Any misstep can be fatal.
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Sanctity of Death
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By Henry Meyerding on Jun 23, 2007 - 12:20:00 AM
President Bush likes to straddle moral issues with a very broad stance. On the one hand, he is a proponent of pre-emptive war and on the other, he vetoes stem cell research initiatives. Evidently, some human life is more sacred than other human life.
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Tragedy
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By Henry Meyerding on Apr 22, 2007 - 5:37:00 PM
Senseless Tragedy in Virginia unwinds on television. More hype and hysteria at 11:00.
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War on Peace
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By Henry Meyerding on Mar 4, 2007 - 11:01:00 PM
War certainly has a good press agent. There is practically nothing, with the possible exception of sex that gets more positive reviews for less reason.
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Pipe dreams
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By Henry Meyerding on Dec 3, 2006 - 10:00:00 PM
I work with a fellow, a person of more than average intelligence, who surprised me the other day by stating his belief in the movement of huge amounts of weapons from Iraq to Syria. I was flabbergasted. I'd previously thought the only people who believed this obvious fabrication also believed in Bigfoot, astrology, and Atlantis.
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A war story
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By Henry Meyerding on Nov 5, 2006 - 10:00:00 PM
Most war stories are sad, when true. One of the saddest I'm personally acquainted with was told to my father fifty year ago on Halloween. It was an old story when he heard it. It is no less sad for being old.
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Ecofolly
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By Henry Meyerding on Oct 29, 2006 - 10:00:00 PM
It does not seem to me very long ago that our current President was claiming to be an environmental president. He may pretend to champion many good causes, but his administration is doing great harm.
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Detainee Justice
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By Henry Meyerding on Oct 1, 2006 - 10:00:00 PM
Why I'm going to have a hard time voting Democrat: The bipartisan support of the Detainee Bill clearly shows that neither party in our two-party system is prepared to act on behalf of protecting the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.
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Fantasy Land
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By Henry Meyerding on Aug 27, 2006 - 10:00:00 PM
I'm sick and tired of hearing people talk about the 1950s or the 1960s or even the 1970s, who were not alive then and have not the slightest conception of what those years were about.
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Viva Cuba
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By Henry Meyerding on Aug 9, 2006 - 9:08:00 PM
There has been quite a lot of hot air expended in the American media about Cuba lately. To judge from most comments, Fidel Castro has single handedly oppressed the Cuban people and opposed any kind of Cuban democracy single-handed. Many commentators, for no clear reason, think that when Mr. Castro dies, the Cuban nation will awake, as from some dream. God, I hope not.
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Posterity
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By Henry Meyerding on Jul 30, 2006 - 8:14:00 PM
Change happens in our lives. Some changes we welcome, while others just make us feel old. Perhaps that's why older people tend towards conservatism and younger people tend toward progressivism - a conflict as old as people.
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Institutional Thievery
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By Henry Meyerding on Jul 16, 2006 - 7:36:00 PM
I previously thought that ours was becoming a more enlightened age, where many of the old abuses against human rights might still occur, but that people generally would know that they were wrong. But now, major American corporations are stealing peoples' money just because their name sounds Arabic -- and it isn't news.
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War Is Hell
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By Henry Meyerding on Jun 25, 2006 - 7:25:00 PM
Only in the modern era have we achieved even a little bit of freedom for the press in war time. In earlier times, opposition voices were summarily silenced. So it is only during the last few lifetimes that we have heard even a rumor of war's reality.
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Oaths
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By Henry Meyerding on May 21, 2006 - 7:15:00 PM
Our president, who has constitutional responsibility for implementing our laws, has stated publicly that, at least in time of war, the president is above the law. Does this make any difference? Why shouldn't the government be able to do anything necessary to protect the people?
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Open Road
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By Henry Meyerding on Apr 23, 2006 - 6:39:00 PM
There's nothing like travel to give you fresh perspectives on old things.
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Honesty
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By Henry Meyerding on Apr 16, 2006 - 6:45:00 PM
What is honesty and how does it affect the living of each person's life?
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