I highly recommend the work of Free Press. The answer to the question in the title of this post (from the Free Press FAQ page) is that our massive dysfunction of our media is not caused by malicious or incompetent individuals: There may well be media owners who are especially…
Commuting the sentence of Scooter Libby was just the latest of many pressing reasons, it's not the most serious reason. Here's a discussion of additional, more serious, reasons for impeaching Bush and Cheney immediately. Visit the website of Bill Moyer's Journal and click on "Watch Video." Why impeachment? It's a…
The Bush Administration reported this week that despite six years of waging war against al-Qaeda, losing more than 3,600 American lives, spending nearly half a trillion dollars, and decimating the nation of Iraq (the so-called "front line in the war on terrorism"), it has neverless failed to seriously cripple the…
As if America's widespread religious beliefs were not evidence enough of America's superstitious beliefs, last Saturday's flood of marriages should end any speculation. l refer, of course, to the relatively large number of Americans who jumped at the chance to get married on July 7, 2007 -- reportedly on the…
The official number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq recently topped 3600, with total casualties (dead or injured) exceeding 30,000. So-called "collateral damage" has also killed more than 70,000 innocent Iraqis, or about twenty times the number of Americans killed. If we apply this same 20x factor to total U.S. casualties, then we would…