If you think of humans as the creatures most capable of learning from past mistakes, the ongoing saga of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans after the federal levees breached should give you some pause.
Why would I fly across the country on my own dime knowing I would most likely end up in jail in one of the poorest parts of America? Well, have you ever heard of MTR?
Whatever personal problems that public officials deal with privately, leave them alone. This could happen to anyone, in any state, regardless of party.
Leadership, Governor Schwarzenegger, means doing the right thing: serving people, not victimizing them.
Believe it or not, the Brooklyn Bridge, as we know and love it, is in danger of being completely overshadowed by a monstrous commercial development.
While on the David Letterman program, I joked that I might need a "mail-order bride" to achieve the goal of having more children in my life. I believe that most people understood that this was a joke and took it as such.
There can be only one legitimate response to the auto crisis. Let energy conservation and fuel efficiency rule the day. Let the carmakers go under.
This is not an issue of partisan politics. It's a police matter... the investigation of a crime scene in which many more of us are complicit than is comfortable to recognize.
To have the love that I hold dear for the community of the Skid Row residents called into question is hurtful.
Why keep buying foreign crude when we could be making energy right here in Utah from sunlight, wind and geothermal power?
Can we really run the risk of becoming a culturally bankrupt nation because we have not inserted a curriculum into our educational institutions that will teach and nurture creativity in our children?
Sufi music represents spiritual kryptonite to the Taliban -- and it offers a fresh but ancient face of Islam to a West that is wary of invading hordes.
I hope this administration will utilize scientific information and fund programs that work to reduce teen pregnancies, HIV and STDs and teach young people to make healthy, responsible choices.
If our youth don't have the priorities to help others, we are in trouble. If children who need and fundamentally deserve that right for food and education, don't get it, we are in trouble.
Waterboarding works. American lives are at stake. And Dick Cheney has the all the information we need. What's a patriot to do?
There is something profoundly venerable about an artist who is not afraid to speak up. Krystian Zimerman spoke out against President Obama intention to press ahead with George W.'s plans to install a missile-defense shield in Poland.
How could our society grant more rights to a heterosexual one night stand wedding in Vegas than a gay couple that has been together for 3, 5, 10 years of true love?
The criticisms of President Obama's warm greeting toward President Chavez of Venezuela have been the posturing of our nation's most bitter and humanly impotent voices.
I was initially delighted to see that you had joined so many other American Christians in responding to the Born Again American campaign. But it's now clear that you have misunderstood the campaign.
If Republicans are able to prevent Dawn Johnsen from taking office, they'll have demonstrated an ability to block any nomination for the most craven, partisan reasons.
Journalism is what is required now. And, yes, some commentary. But more journalism than commentary. That's what a newspaper does.
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Cafferty for Congress - Baldwin for Movies.
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ALEC .....................you continue your political activism...........PALIN quit so she could go on the attack dog role agianst OBAMA....................................................................................................she is OBSESSED that she was not able to defeat OBAMA in the election............so now she is FREE to rant all she wants as she did in TIME magazine page 44................she is the female LIMBAUGH
America would do better if those in elected office were bound by term limits and we were rid of the career politicians. If normal people, not bent on being in office for life, were in the Congress, there would be much more sincerity and trust of campaign promises.
As it is, we elect our representatives to represent their own interests and to apologize to their constiuents when the go back on their promises. Too bad we have moved away from honest Americans representing us and have settled for the gang we have "representing" us today.
You actually believe "normal" people are more trustworthy than career politicians? What town do you live in? What is your career? Sounds like a fantasy world to me.
"Normal" does not mean "trustworthy". "Normal" means what the majority of people do. My experience with normal people has not shown much more familiarity with the truth than the majority of elected officials.
You can't pigeon-hole people like that. Throwing inexperienced crops of first-timers into the breach every two or four years guarantees nothing resembling trustworthyness, and certainly not competence.
Just because I said term limits does not mean one term. I would support 3 terms (6 years) for a congressperson, 2 terms (12 years) for a Senator. We already took care of the Presidential term.
You must live in a larger city (usually Democrat controlled...that WOULD explain your cynacism...lol)
the case could be easily that a fundamental problem in american politics is harvard, yale, and the rest of the breeding grouds that include foriegn service apts. and on down.
the fact you did not go to harvard wd itself be a qualifier.
that business about hitting a biker is knarly and he sd. have known better than starting a pissing contest.
and as you made it clear, if one is to enter a pissing contest,
stand on a chair................................
Nice try but Harvard is a great school. Even Bill O'Reilly went there.
Yes, Alec...fair enough!
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