Monthly Archives April 2003

politics

Painting homeland terrorism black. Right-wingers worry that Islamic African-Americans are potential terrorists, call for nation’s Muslims to “clean house”. I think it’s actually a reasonable fear that disaffected African-American citizens will turn to terrorism. It’s the pragmatic reason that the racism in our society is bad. The (long-term) answer, of course, is to fight racism, [...]

politics

Gramma and the chickens by W. David Jenkins III– proposes a “What About America?” platform for the Democratic Party. It is not clear exactly what the North Koreans said to the US delegation. According to US media reports, the head of the North Korean delegation pulled aside his opposite number and said that the North [...]

politics

“Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that’s what? Children. Monogamous relationships. In every society, the definition of marriage has not [...]