A young man was recently sold a Mossberg 500 shotgun and casually shot two total strangers in a shopping mall. The man who sold him the gun said, without any sense of irony, that the gun was an “entry level” shotgun for “home defense”. On an average day in America 32 people are murdered with …
Happy Christmas to our numerous readers. Here is something to humbly ponder upon over the holiday: A new book by Michael Ryan, “Decoding Al Qaida’s Strategy: the Deep Battle against America”, among other things, discusses what it is that Al Qaida and its loose affiliates (and by extension much of the Islamic world) so heartily …
The Israeli Prawer Plan that aimed to forcibly relocate over 40,000 Israeli Bedouin from their ancestral lands is no longer under consideration by the Israeli Knesset. Demonstrations on both sides of the Green Line, and throughout the world, succeeded in raising enough doubt about this plan to help take it off the table, however temporarily. …
Continue reading ‘More good news! Israel shelves relocation of 40,000 Bedouin’ »
There is encouraging news about US political gerrymandering and the damage it does to politics, the country and democracy. Several states are trying to do something about the gerrymandering and the hyperpartisanship it causes, by changing the way congressional districts are drawn and the way elections are held. Their goal: Force members of Congress to …
Continue reading ‘Where politicians choose their voters there is good emerging news.’ »
According to the Center for American Progress, 58% of Republicans in Congress deny the existence of climate change or oppose action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. However, their voters are much smarter and believe the evidence of their own eyes, let alone the research of every respectable scientist concerned in the matter. 87% of Oklahoman …
