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America At The Crossroads
September 2 2008 A little more than two months from now, American voters will be faced with a stark choice at the ballot box. They can either support Obama and the Democrats to get change (probably for better, but maybe for worse) or they can go with McCain and the Republicans and be......Read More

Posted on: 2008-09-02 17:19:03 | Rating:

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Voting And Emotion
September 5 2008 The current American electoral race is a fasinating one because there has seldom been an election that has so sharply contrasted a campaign based on logic against one that is pitched to appeal to emotion. High school civics courses tell us that voters should carefully......Read More

Posted on: 2008-09-04 15:31:48 | Rating:

| Views: 203 | Comments: 2 | Tags: emotion

Canadian Voters
September 5 2008 If some Canadians are envious of the current American electoral hoopla south of the border, then they can now rejoice in knowing that we will have our very own federal election in The Great White North during October. Of course, we do things in a smaller way up here on......Read More

Posted on: 2008-09-05 11:17:26 | Rating:

| Views: 175 | Comments: 0 | Tags: election

Church And State
September 14 2008 When Western democracies began to form during the Enlightment, the politcal leaders in these countries, with the exception of England, all tried to sharply separate government from any official state religion. This was especially true for the United States......Read More

Posted on: 2008-09-14 10:40:10 | Rating:

| Views: 157 | Comments: 2 | Tags: church state

Racism In Ardonia
Septhember 17 2008 Consider for a moment the imaginary nation of Ardonia. Once the most prosperous and powerful country on Earth, Ardonia has fallen upon hard times. The nation is mired in two hopeless foreign wars that are killing its soldiers and costing the Ardonian taxpayers......Read More

Posted on: 2008-09-17 14:19:12 | Rating:

| Views: 155 | Comments: 1 | Tags: racism

Conspiracy Theories
September 20 2008 A few weeks ago, I was at the barber shop. While I waited for my barber Dominic to finish with another customer, I read through a copy of The Toronto Star and I noticed a story about a man who had tried to blow up a local water filtration plant because he was......Read More