Why Do We Need Fifty Four Hundred Nukes Again?

Now that President Obama is in London preparing his first ever appearance at a Group of 20 meeting, one of the issues that I am hoping will come on the sidelines when finance is not being discussed is nuclear non-proliferation. With Russia being one of the members there, it will give President Obama a chance [...]

Our Soldiers Paying For Their Health Insurance Doesn’t Get Any More Stupid

Whenever there is some sort of a global problem such as Hitler’s armies rolling into France, North Korea invading South Korea, North Vietnam invading South Vietnam, Iraq invading Kuwait, and Al-Qaeda destroying the World Trade Center and Pentagon, our soldiers in the armed forces have gone to fight the wars. Time and time again, these [...]

The Amount of Good Stem Cells Can Do is Astronomical

Since the discovery of stem cells, the research on them has been an issue of both ethics and morals, one that has split the two parties down the line for the most part. On the left, there are those that suggest that stem cell research is a necessity and has the capability to save tons [...]

If You Don’t Ask, I Won’t Tell…No Thanks

I had the chance to sit down and ask a friend of mine who happens to have served in Iraq what his opinion was of a homosexual man or woman being in his unit. After a few laughs about who was covering whose butt, we got down to the seriousness of the topic. We talked [...]

Capitol Hill’s Bad Joke

A Democrat and a Republican stumble in a bar carrying two identical empty bottles of Jack Daniel’s and a draft of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act after a long night of friendly debating and reaching across the aisle to help one another achieve balance and peace through this critical legislation.  The bartender, who [...]

Thou Shalt Keep Thy Religion To Thyself

In 1802, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to a group of Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut, saying “…I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between [...]

All Those Little Liberties? Yeah, They’re Still Mine, President Bush

I thought when President Obama was elected, we would finally be able to rid ourselves of President Bush. He would go off into hiding and President Obama could make his attempts at fixing the economy, ending the two wars we’re in, and creating all the programs he wanted. We had our eight years of President [...]