Assuming that by “we” he means regular folks and not pundits or bloggers, I think we do need to talk more about race. Yes RefineryOperator (awesome name) discussing race does involve a lot of talking about how you feel. But in doing so it allows your counterpart know why you hold a particular view on [...]
The Democratic party needs to wake up and think hard about the choice they are making in this election. Thanks to Bush, we have a window of opportunity to build the Democratic party and pull in Independents and some Republicans that we would never have had otherwise. With this majority we can get the change [...]
“Theodore Hertzel is the father of Zionism. He was a Jew who at the turn of the 19th century said, this land is our land, God wants us to live there. So he went to the Jews of Europe and said ‘I want you to come and join me in the land of Israel.’ So [...]
I’m afraid the burden of proof is with you as you’re the one claiming there are aliens on the moon, not me. The lack of pictures does not constitute evidence, rather, the lack of evidence doesn’t support your theory. As to this wager, sure, i’m game. Just give me all of your personal information and [...]
Personally, I’m not worried about low voter turnout. I interpret it to mean that people are generally satisfied. As any town councilperson knows angry people show up to complain, satisfied people stay home.
Few words have the power to upset individuals and corrode a conversation more than the N-word. Its very use short-circuits rational discourse. Thrown around with frequency in certain circles, the N-word provokes and torments, gaining totemic power with each use. The N-word I refer to is, of course, “Nazi.” Over 60 years after the end [...]
Have an idea but I need to think a little how to realize it better… See for updates.
During his November 11 Meet the Press interview with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (IL) on NBC’s Meet the Press, host Tim Russert asserted that “critics will say you’ve not been a leader against the war,” and then read a quote he attributed to Obama: “In July of 2004, Barack Obama: ‘I’m not privy [...]
I don’t know if it’s better to just simply ignore Pat Buchanan. We have been ignoring him for the past few years and he obviously isn’t going away. I think we can learn a great deal from his bigotry-his reasons for why black people are unpatriotic and why they ought to be grateful for slavery [...]
