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January 05, 2006
It may seem to many that we are living in a period in which there are potentially insurmountable problems facing us on every side. Certainly the world is on the precipice of a population explosion that we will be unable to sustain. The consumption of our natural resources and the destruction of our ...
November 14, 2005
Since World War II our political entanglements with the rest of the world have been increasingly, rightly or wrongly, intended to secure or engender the business interests of our corporations. Suddenly our international companies are enamored with the opportunities to move labor-intensive segments o...
October 18, 2005
What is a person to believe? Has oil production already peaked? Is Peak Oil another twenty years away? Or perhaps Peak Oil is a misunderstanding or even a hoax perpetrated by those controlling the oil supplies. Recent articles indicate that new or renewable sources are ready to save the day in any c...
October 12, 2005
It?s time we stopped kidding ourselves! The continuation of the illegal immigration from Mexico is the direct intention of our government. When a government enforces a law, we are inclined to think that the enforcement is their duty. However, when a government does not enforce the law, we are inclin...
September 22, 2005
A funny thing happened on the way to fifty-dollar-plus crude oil. The oil producing countries have been claiming that they are producing more oil than the world can refine. This week, they said they would produce even more, by a couple of million barrels per day. As it turns out, the problem is not ...
September 19, 2005
Katrina has devastated New Orleans and also the sensibilities of citizens all over this country. We watched it approach for days on the news and weather programs. There was much talk about the warm waters and their propensity to empower the approaching storm. Most of us were not aware of the potenti...
August 22, 2005
This pandemic is for the birds! It appears that birds around the world will become infected. Certainly there is substantial danger that the avian flu could spread to people and become a threat to mankind. But the media is getting carried away, as if a human pandemic is a foregone conclusion. It is f...
August 16, 2005
To hear some people tell it, this is a crisis threatening civilization itself. Others claim that we will have more oil than we need for many years to come and seem to be unconcerned. Just what is Peak Oil? When will it arrive? What are the major ways it will affect us?
For the last forty years...
August 12, 2005
As we have seen, in economic terms, there is a tendency for the name of an economic system (ex: liberal economic system) to keep its name permanently. However in the political sense, the name Conservative is acquired only after the political system is firmly established and in control. The political...
August 10, 2005
I am no fan of our President George W. Bush. But when he is right, he is almost right! The Theory of Evolution, as it is taught in our schools is deplorable. But, theory’s just “ain’t necessarily so”. A good theory is just an idea with a very high probability of credibility. How much time is attribu...
August 09, 2005
Just as economic conservatism is related to the preservation of established powers, political and social conservatism is rooted in the traditions of those same powers. The political Conservatives are historically regarded as strict guardians of the law and intolerant of deviations, however slight. O...
August 06, 2005
The modern political “Conservative” politician usually believes in “Liberal” or “Neo-liberal Economics”. Although we usually think of Republicans as Conservative, some are called Liberal Republicans. Are they really Liberal, or just more liberal than the Conservative Republicans? What about the Mode...
July 25, 2005
After the 9/11 attacks, President Bush seemed to be doing all the right things. Little did we realize what a turning point in history, this would be for the United States. He enjoined the European countries in a “War against Terror”; indeed even some of the Asian and mid-east countries were offering...
July 18, 2005
The Countries of Asia are the natural beneficiaries of the new American trading system that is currently deified in the western world, namely the Globalization of trade. The outsourcing of any and all business in search of lower labor costs leads to Asia, and mostly to China and India.
China is ...
July 11, 2005
Since the end of the Cold War, we have entered into a new phase of the market economy generally known as globalization. Diverse companies with international interests such as Wal-Mart and Exxon have expanded and acquired huge profits. The national economy is experiencing record GDP growth. The stock...
July 05, 2005
We have been successful at Nation Building in the past. The shining examples are Germany and Japan. Nation Building is in reality, another less violent continuation of warfare. The intention is to establish a new government that has political and especially economic ties to the American and/or at le...
June 29, 2005
I watched the President last night. The speech seemed pretty typical of other speeches given to us in the past. He stressed the importance of our staying the course, and gave his assurance that progress is being made. Tying the security of the United States to the war in Iraq, he pointed out that ...
June 18, 2005
Pakistan find’s itself in an awkward position with the US as it makes an attempt to provide its people with energy. In the past couple of years, ties have warmed between Pakistan and India to a degree that had not seemed possible. Both of these countries have growing needs of continuing supplies of ...
June 11, 2005
A panel set up by the Counsel on Foreign Relations wants Americans to stop thinking of themselves as United States citizens and to think of themselves as just North Americans. The panel has published a report called “Building a North American Community” in which it proposes a single common border ar...
June 03, 2005
We do not have an immigration problem with Mexico. We do have a border problem with Mexico. Without making more jokes about Homeland Security, borders are important. Without borders, there is no country…or security. Some public political debate has begun, but don’t expect too much.
The easiest way ...
May 09, 2005
The United Sates is currently embroiled in the questionable experiment of Nation Building in Iraq. Having recently removed Hussein, we are now engaged in the occupation of that country with the intention of creating a new, democratic government.
We could easily have stayed just long enough to l...