In These Times

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• • 01 Oct 09
  • 8:34 pm

  We have a president in Barack Obama who is utterly unprepared for his role as commander-in-chief, at times seemingly disinterested in carrying out the duties entrusted to him. We have a festering problem with the war in Afghanistan that has no end in sight, but the Obama administration continues to obsess about domestic issues that are at the core of their far-left agenda, rather than attempt to tackle the issue of what to do about the mess in Afghanistan that is costing this country money we can't afford, all the while our deepening involvement results in higher casaulty numbers. Are we …

  Posted to Democracy and Action

• • 28 May 09
  • 6:51 pm

  Sonia Sotomayor's spot on the Supreme Court will become an automatic Hispanic one for the rest of the 21st century, just as Clarence Thomas followed Thurgood Marshall in the black seat. I hope President Obama doesn't forget Asian-Americans the next time. It could have been worse, I guess. At least Harriet Miers's name wasn't thrown into the ring again.

  Posted to President Obama has nominated federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. Wha

• • 28 May 09
  • 6:54 pm

  A world free of nuclear weapons is not going to happen. The technology to make the weapons can't be "unlearned," and the weapons assume great geopolitical purpose for those that possess them.

  Posted to The Aspiration of Global Zero

• • 18 May 09
  • 10:36 pm

  There will be no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem because Israel does not want one and will never allow it to come to fruition.

  Posted to Israel’s Center Does Not Hold

• • 28 May 09
  • 7:13 pm

  "But history, Holmgren writes, shows that nations experiencing rapid decreases in complexity generally become deeply unstable and experience food insecurity, mass migration and a breakdown of law and order." Japan somehow finds a way to ensure stability and harmony to a great extent throughout its islands, even with food self-sufficiency at around 40%, and the importation of fossil fuels at close to 100% for its needs. When push comes to shove over the peak of oil production, they will find a way to greatly increase other available energy sources. There is considerable angst in the country over expanded use of nuclear …

  Posted to Rethinking the Future