Parents and schools, bad combo for education Your title bothers me more than anything you wrote below it. As a high school teacher with 30 years of experience, I would have to say that parents and schools are an excellent combination -- in truth, the only workable solution for the problems of education. Despit
1) Honestly, I do not think there is any question that George Bush honestly won the election. I would be stunned if any contrary evidence showed up. 2) It is time to end the tradition of challenging election results. If something like this happens once, it is a fluke. Twice, and it is a tradition -- one that would amount to a fatal cancer on our type of government. Dependable succession is one of the necessities of government, and the fact
One of the interesting things in politics is to watch the dance among the victorious party, the losing party, and the press as to what kind of mandate an election grants. It is my sense that this is one area where the mainstream media retains inordinate influence. I have been watching ABC news in recent days, and here is what I see. On economic issues, they have annointed the Bush agenda victorious. One inidcator is on social security. Unt
1: Liberal (100%) 2: Totalitarian (77%) 3: New Labour (71%) 4: Anarcho-syndicalist (70%) 5: Traditional Societies (52%) 6: Authoritarian (45%) 7: Libertarian (40%) 8: Conservative (15%) However, there were a few questions that left me without any reasonable answer. Just for example: 5. Should the United States create a socialized system of free health care for all? Yes No Not sure
Just a little spice for the day: From Race 2004: Exit polling results State: Bush - Kerry Arizona: 55 - 45 Colorado: 51 - 48 Loiusiana: 57 - 42 Pennsylvania: 40 - 60 Ohio: 48 - 52 Florida: 48 - 51 Michigan: 47 - 51 New Mexico: 48 - 50 Minnesota: 40 - 58 Wisconsin: 43 - 52 Iowa: 49 - 49 New Hampshire: 41 - 57 On the other hand, Zogby as of noon had Colorado and Wisconsin go
Good, because Im blacklisting you for the following reasons: You dislike Texas Spoken like a true redneck southerner. Seriously, your retort shows just how unlikeable people of your ilk are. You write your opinion. He writes his opi
A very important distinction: It is true that the United States is foolish to try to accomplish major objective unilaterally. The difficulty of subduing a third rate power like Iraq points up the real life limits on what even the world's most powerful military can accomplish all on its own. Thus, I oppose President Bush's outlook on the world. However, it is quite another thing to cite polls from other countries as to who they want the Unit
It's not that straight forward though is it? It isn't a Canadian product since we are producing it, exporting it then we would be buying it back. Does that make any sense? Since when does government or anyone else have to deem an economic decision "rational" to make it legal? It is a very strange argument
Interesting map... Kerry takes Wisconsin and Bush takes New Mexico -- both kind of surprising calls. This also assumes that Kerry takes both Ohio and Iowa, which appear to be dead heats, plus litigation-prone Florida. Seems to me that each of these three is maybe a 55% shot for Kerry, so if I were Mr. Kerry, I wouldn't start the celebration quite yet. <TABLE cellp
Why should we. A lot of us see John Kerry as a traitor! Sorry, personally I'll take a liar over a traitor any day. Therein lies the reason I have so little sympathy for the contingent you speak for. * Step 1: Characterize in terms of exaggerated evil. *
You are defending "freedom of speech" for companies, the cost of which is then passed on to consumers. An awfully big industry (advertising and all the dominoes further down the chain) would be out of work quick if that "freedom of speech" were denied. Nothing's ever as simple as it seems. Cheers, Daiwa <
Isn't getting drugs from Canada actually outsourcing US pharmaceutical jobs? You are (playfully, I think) confusing two related but separate issues: 1) Freedom of consumers to buy either American or foreign products, and 2) Freedom of corporations to hire either American or foreign workers.
That's an over-simplification. Canada doesn't allow for advertising of prescription drugs. The United States does (we have that whole freedom of speech thing here). The millions spent in marketing is then passed on to American consumers in the form of higher prices. It's funny how the left and right can look
Funny, those same pics could be turned around and used for a Pro Kerry blog in the same manner. Just what I was thinking.
although i have no idea why the term proactive came to being (one acts or reacts but ive yet to see someone proact), i gotcher point. <img src="../images/smiles/smile.gif" border=0
In his article, COL Gene asked: Is George W. a strong leader? That thread has gone off in a different direction -- more a question of General Tommy Franks and his viewpoints, than a discussion of leadership. Since I think that the issue of the President's leadership is central to the election, this is my attem
What becomes of their souls? Some one from this religion educate me. We can reasonably guess that the mainstream Muslim view of these victims is about the same as our view of McVeigh's victims.
Perhaps you are naive enough to believe Kerry was talking about Bush and Condi Rice guarding the facility. The major network sources quoted people who had been on the scene as making the point that the troops who went through the area simply did not have the manpower to secure such a facility. The imp
he has said that Osmas anger is understandable because of the USA's foreign policy in the Middle East for the past 6 decades. Understandable? Murdering innocent people is understandable? I have no knowledge of this other than your stateme
Interesting you bring up Jimmy Carter. I haven't heard what he has to say about Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, but I would be surpised if he did not want to eliminate them as summarily as possible. If he didn't, then I'd have to vote for Nader. Truth is, there are very few Americans I would not prefer to Bush. Heck, look at me, I'm voting for Kerry -- which pretty well proves my point.
Responding to the title, not to the message... I think that there is a good chance for a huge irony, that in the fiercest presidential election in memory, the winner in November may be the loser in the long term. The problems we currently face are not likely to diminish quickly: * Even if we capture Bin Laden, the hate wing of the Mulim extremists are likely to pos
Even as a Bush supporter I would vote for Sen McCain. Holy cow, I never thought you and I would agree on anything. If McCain's name showed up on the ballot unexpectedly on Tuesday
Want to make your predictions as to who will win which state? Race 2004 has an ongoing content, and you can see how other people have it called, too. http://www.race2004.net/contestcover.php
Are you telling me conservatives are as aware of Bush's?
Some knob-jockey planted a political sign in my yard - I think it should be well within my rights to pull it out and beat the candidate around the head with it. Uh, lets go after the guy who put it there, not the candidate. Many an idiot has done things like that just to be a pain in the rear. In fact, very fe