Jan 10 2012 - 6:06pm
I hate clichés. I love clichés. I just find it weird when I feel as if my whole life is one big cliché! Being a parent means you will undoubtedly experience any number of them. Here’s an arbitrary list of parenting clichés. Be honest, how many have you used?
Read more
Jan 9 2012 - 6:30pm
Don't take it from me. Take it from the book being published today that will mainstream the movement to end corporate personhood: "Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do, And What You Can Do About It," by Jeff Clements with a foreword by Bill Moyers.
Read more
Jan 9 2012 - 4:36am
Additives have become the appealing draw to the most essential ingredient
in our daily diet. Without potable water many of our body's metabolic processes cannot function properly. Water is an essential substance for the proliferation of life. Every form of life depends on water. Read more
Jan 8 2012 - 12:20am
State Democratic Party leaders and activists have been crowing this past week due to a federal three-judge panel striking down the legislature's plan for redistricting the state's three Congressional Districts. Read more
Jan 6 2012 - 7:22pm
The push to attack Iran has been on for so long that entire categories of arguments for it (such as that the Iranians are fueling the Iraqi resistance) have come and gone. At DontAttackIran.org we've been collecting the arguments for and against attacking Iran for years. We've campaigned against an attack, but never been able to claim a success, because decisions not to launch wars are never announced, because those pushing for wars never give up, and because those believing what their government tells them think the Pentagon never campaigns for wars but is forced into them defensively on short notice by attacks from evildoers. Read more
Jan 6 2012 - 7:19pm
January 12, 2012, is the 10th anniversary of the day when terrorism suspects were subjected to indefinite incarceration in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, generally in the absence of any charges or trial.
Read more
Jan 6 2012 - 7:16pm
U.S. behavior long ago provided one causal context for our unease about the presumed nuclear aspirations of the Islamic Republic of Iran: the U.S. and Britain messed with Iran’s last authentically democratic election in 1953, fearing communist influence and the nationalization of oil. U.S. oil corporations, a minor partner before the CIA overthrew elected Mohammad Mossadegh and installed the dictatorial Shah, then became the largest profiting entity, even more than the country from which the oil came.
Read more
Jan 5 2012 - 6:22pm
Standing in front of 40 religious and academic leaders in Najaf, Iraq this summer, I wondered how they would react to the presentation I was about to give. I was an unarmed, Christian American spending five weeks in Iraq with the Muslim Peacemaker Teams (MPT). The topic of my presentation was the relationship between Iraqis and Americans and the possibility of “reconciliation.”
Read more
Jan 5 2012 - 6:19pm
At the first meeting of the new Charlottesville, Va., City Council Tuesday evening, four of the five city council members publicly expressed their intention to support a resolution asking Congress to reduce military spending, a resolution likely to be discussed and voted on at the council's next meeting on the evening of January 16th, Martin Luther King Day. The fifth member expressed no view, so the possibility exists for unanimous support. One of the four members who expressed support for the draft resolution that we had proposed added that he would like to see it amended to also oppose the launching of a war against Iran. Another member also expressed an interest in revising the draft in some unspecified way prior to the next meeting.
Read more
Jan 5 2012 - 6:16pm
The Government of Canada has placed itself in the front of the drive to reform the 54-nation Commonwealth. The 62-year old organization should be all the better for Canada’s initiative.
Read more
Jan 5 2012 - 6:03pm
Say the name "Mitt Romney" and besides a good set of hair for a sixty-something, what else comes to mind? Governor of Massachussetts...twice a candidate for President....flip-flopper on the issues. Though Romney has been in the public's eye for over twenty years, beginning with his failed run for U.S. Senate against Ted Kennedy, he really hasn't achieved that much. Some business successes, yes, and a good job on the Salt Lake City Olympic Games. But what else? Read more
Jan 4 2012 - 6:28pm
Nov. 4, 2008
Greetings from Joe Honick on this Election Day: Good morning...there will be no winners in this year's election: not Obama, not McCain and certainly not the nation given the nature of what has passed for campaign gobbledegook from all sides as well as from sides who would not identify themselves.
Read more
Jan 4 2012 - 6:23pm
Note: this three part series of essays are inspired by the desire to understand the contradiction between the political and human values that we Americans cherish, such as freedom, equality, the importance of the individual, with our historical and contemporary destructive actions abroad. In this essay, we will attempt to show how this contradiction was established early on, as the Founding Fathers integrated a fundamental distrust of human nature into the very fabric of the republic—a lower conception of human beings which contributed to the abuse of other human beings and their environments, from the cotton gin to the atomic bomb, from American slavery to child labor to the wars and self-centered foreign policy of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Read more
Jan 4 2012 - 6:20pm
When I began my writing career, and then my radio show, I promised myself I’d avoid politics. I’m breaking that promise via this first column of 2012, though it is not exclusively political. I’m old enough to remember when people spoke the truth, even if it was uncomfortable. Political correctness has comprised that value in my opinion. And, one of my strong beliefs as a parent is we must speak, live, and model the truth for our children. With political correctness, that often means going contrary to what they might be taught at school.
Read more
Jan 4 2012 - 6:16pm
Sir Winston Churchill once remarked, ‘Lee was the noblest American who had ever lived and one of the greatest commanders known to the annals of war.’
Read more
Jan 4 2012 - 3:13pm
Iowa always surprises, and this year was no different. Who could have dreamed even a couple of weeks ago that Rick Santorum and Ron Paul would have such a razor-thin margin between their vote counts in Iowa and that of Mitt Romney. Remember: Romney has been running in Iowa for the past four years and dumped a motherlode of negative ads against rival Newt Gingrich. Yet he only wins by...eight little votes? Bizarre. Read more
Jan 3 2012 - 6:06pm
The way I see it, First Love can be broken down into two categories:
Romantic love.
Other.
Read more
Jan 2 2012 - 11:11pm
Why aren’t more women working in careers that can tilt the scales of innovation and global competitiveness in the United States’ favor?
Read more
Jan 2 2012 - 11:26am
GOP Presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney wants nothing more than to finish the Republican nominating contest early by winning Iowa. Iowa was always the tough nut for Romney to crack, given its traditional role in representing the conservative base of the GOP. Plus, Republican voters there have shown a flair for upsetting the establishment's applecart. Read more
Jan 1 2012 - 10:24pm
In any argument the first undertaking should be to determine the premise of one’s opponent: whence its source and how valid. For if his premise is suspect, his whole argument is suspect.
Read more
Jan 1 2012 - 10:21pm
These were among the complaints registered the last time this nation had a king: Read more
Dec 30 2011 - 6:55pm
At the start of the New Year, when checking out at the grocery store, our seniors, individuals and families will keep more of their hard earned money. In working with members of the legislature, my proposal to decrease the sales tax on food for home consumption by 1 percent goes into effect. The decline from 3 percent to 2 percent means a savings of $25 million for taxpayers. For a family of four, that's an extra $52 dollars a year that can be used toward life's other necessities. The food tax is scheduled to drop another percentage point down to 1 percent in July. That is $54 million of food tax relief that goes into place this year. And, as long as our State's Rainy Day Fund meets certain criteria, the food tax will be eliminated altogether this time next year.
Read more
Dec 30 2011 - 6:03pm
I cannot stress sufficiently that we will best move Congress toward peace and justice by keeping it at arm's length and pressuring it without self-censorship, compromise, or entanglement with one or the other of its two branches: the Democratic or Republican. We are engaged in a long-term campaign to undo a plutocratic war state. Moving that campaign forward in the general culture is more important than which criminal enterprise has a majority of seats: the Democratic or Republican.
Read more
Dec 29 2011 - 6:35pm
When I was very young, I thought about wisdom the way other children think about prince charming or castles in the air. As if it were something glistening and perfect and true. Shining, the way Excalibur shone when young King Arthur pulled the sword out of the stone. Glowing from the inside, like a fortune teller’s crystal ball.
Read more
Dec 29 2011 - 6:32pm
2012 dawns on a gloomy horizon for the 15 countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). It is a dawn whose breaking, although foretold, was largely ignored. If the inertia continues in the vague hope that external conditions will improve to the extent that global buoyancy will lift the region, it is a hope without basis
Read more
Dec 28 2011 - 7:10pm
Exercise.
Lose weight.
Be nicer. Read more
Dec 27 2011 - 6:12pm
I stopped by a corporate chain bookstore this week and checked out the "Current Affairs" section. I was a little surprised to discover that according to a dozen or more books dominating the display we are all under a vicious life-and-death assault from a raving, drooling mob of communist devils led by that well-known pinko guerrilla Barack Obama. Read more
Dec 26 2011 - 7:11pm
The following is a letter verbatim that appeared in the September 4th edition of the Charleston Gazette: “Editor: California’s assembly recently passed four bills designed to prohibit or punish anyone who promotes traditional views on marriage and family in the state school system.
Read more
Dec 24 2011 - 5:57pm
As you know if you've been awake the past several years, Bush began the unconstitutional practice of rewriting laws with signing statements, there was a little scandal when people found out, candidate Obama promised not to do it, Obama did it, Obama declared it OK in an executive order, and now it's all perfectly fine. Read more
Dec 24 2011 - 5:55pm
So, how is that violent liberation working out for 'ya? How much did the US spend trying to topple dictators Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt? Oh, that's right, like Filipino strongman Ferdinand Marcos, those brutal, corrupt, murdering leaders were essentially installed and supported by the US. We spent zero helping the nonviolent revolutions in those countries.
Read more
Dec 23 2011 - 10:46pm
Huntington, WV - The West Virginia Federation of Young Republicans kicks off their 2012 Campaign this week with a new video detailing decades of disgraced and defeated Democrat incumbents statewide.
Read more
Dec 23 2011 - 7:22pm
Caribbean people are fun-loving and at Christmas they particularly enjoy celebration in the spirit of the Season. A brave attempt has been made by many throughout the region to maintain that spirit this year. But, across the Caribbean, it is a blue Christmas that not even the reduced Christmas lights and decorations can dispel. In the majority of countries, the poor economic conditions are the principal cause of gloominess; in others, political uncertainty is also a factor.
Read more
Dec 22 2011 - 4:10pm
These days, more often than not, we search for answers. Answers about the state of the economy, and answers about jobs and opportunity. This has seemed to be the case here in West Virginia, as our economic prosperity is typically classified as “not so much of it”. Notable national think-tanks, such as Forbes and US News, have often ranked West Virginia at the bottom for business climate and the like. Read more
Dec 21 2011 - 10:28pm
Editor's Note: The American Association of Physicists in Medicine last week adopted the following position statement:AAPM Position Statement on Radiation Risks from Medical Imaging Procedures
December 13, 2011
Read more
Dec 21 2011 - 10:26pm
One of the most important questions to ask of leadership of any kind is the simple inquiry as to what made them make the decisions they did. This is especially so when such decisions impacted the lives of millions of people, families and the fortunes of nations.
Read more
