To promote a political public discourse through a rational and intellectual debate
In the last issue of 2007, John McCain wrote an essay describing his vision for America’s foreign policy during his presidency in Foreign Affairs journal. In his essay, he highlighted several important things he plans to do if elected president of the United States, most crucial of which was of course establishing freedom and democracy […]
Every presidential election cycle we are faced with rhetoric, slogans, catch phrases, and endorsements. Endorsements come in any way, shape and form and from all sorts of sources, from Hollywood stars, political pundits and commentators, newspapers editorials, magazines, to other politicians. The standard, doctrinal, question is to ask about the effect of endorsements. The […]
After about a week of non-stop mainstream media coverage of Obama’s and Clinton’s campaign rhetoric, which involved a courteous exchange of race and gender-based rhetoric and posturing, the Democrats finally decided to consciously make peace for the Las Vegas audience to prevent further deterioration and collapse of democracy. All three candidates indicated at the beginning […]
In the latest GOP debate, shown on Fox News, Thurs., January 10th, familiar themes were seen. Rudy has virtually morphed into Mr. 9/11, since there is nothing else he can possibly run on within the Republican party. Fred Thompson is trying to wake up from his hibernation, because he has been a no-show thus far. […]
According to the NY Times editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal, the hiring of Bill Kristol, an icon of the neoconservative movement, has been on the merit that Mr. Kristol is “serious, respected conservative intellectual”, as reported by Politico. Of course the term “intellectual” is supposed to refer to someone who is utilizing their mental capacity […]
The short answer is no. The great modern mythology that the NY Times is a so-called “liberal” newspaper is unsurprisingly persistent. I say unsurprisingly because the country has been so tilted to the right that the hiring of Bill Kristol by the NY Times has a good chance of tilting the earth on its axis. […]
Now that the annual “war on Christmas” is over, it’s time to get back to “real” politics - that is wasting time covering the 1st round of the Iowa caucuses for both parties. At least for the moment, the world comes to a halt, Pakistan’s chaos is on pause, and national news can wait. Sorry […]
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