236 years ago today, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress...after defeating an amendment to name the new country, "Cool Dude Nation".
The Dickensian disdain for the poor resonates with some people today.
Hello, planeteers! Although I haven't posted here in a while due to an overflow of work, I've been lurking from time to time and am glad to see that the quality of commentary here has not declined in the...
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the...
Robert Gates has served 9 different Presidents over the last 45 years. Join us as we look back on that service and look forward on the challenges that face our nation.
Dr. Gates, thanks so much for joining me this...
The Italian word for "secret" is segreto. Remember that.
About 38 years ago, when Watergate was making a splash across the news media, one Bob Woodward was directed to California, by one of the plea-bargaining culprits and told to speak with...
Here in Ireland there will be a Presidential election on the 27 October.
لا إله إلا الله ، وأن محمدا رسول الله.( There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.)
~Sunni Shahada
The Arab World Before Islam
Before we delve into the religion of Islam itself, let's look at Arab...
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in...
On the Debt Ceiling deal, the word was that Obama "caved". Did he? The evidence indicates otherwise.
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How different would this country be if not for the logic of Jefferson and the citizens of the fledgling country we call the United States, clinging to their views of their right to enslave people who were free in their country but kidnapped and brought here against their will as enslaved individuals, designated as non-human and doomed to the inhumanity of enslavement?
