Bush sure has a talent for driving up the retail price of oil (and, thus, oil company profits). This week, with gasoline hitting all-time high prices, Bush directed the U.S. DoE's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to *buy* gasoline -- a move that enriches oil companies both directly (i.e., by making long-range…
What's it mean to be neutral? Is it possible to be neutral? I referred to the trusty Bible for guidance: Matthew 12:30: "He that is not with me is against me." Mark 9:40: "For he that is not against us is on our part." OK . . . BTW, there…
Should one actively crave knowledge? Here are two extreme opinions: Oh, my greed! There is no selfishness in my soul but only an all-coveting self that would like to appropriate many individuals as so many additional pairs of eyes and hands—a self that would like to bring back the whole…
Tom Shales of the Washington Post describes the rot that our national media has become: When Barack Obama met Hillary Clinton for another televised Democratic candidates' debate last night, it was more than a step forward in the 2008 presidential election. It was another step downward for network news --…
What John F. Kennedy would, indeed, say to George W. Bush: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=zkryNyxlubY[/youtube]