Our country’s illegal immigration policies, or lack thereof, are little more than a bad joke. Our borders are sieves and our ability to track non-permanent foreign nationals is minimal. Is this what Americans want? What you believe – or perhaps it is more aptly stated as “what you feel” – about this issue depends largely…
Author: marc
Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.
The Nature of the Islamic Enemy
Who are our troops fighting in Iraq? Men who are little more than rabid dogs, judging from their recent “activities”. As I’ve said before and as David B. stated in a comment last week, the issue isn’t whether how this scum should be dealt with – there is only one way – it’s the fact…
Ideas: Disagree and Die
What is it about people and their ideas that makes rejection so impossible to accept? We can’t touch an idea, hold it in our hands, or kiss it goodnight. What is so important that they are worth killing for? It seems to me that there’s a fundamental failure in people’s thought processes that stems from…
Cool Pic of Japanese Satellite
Science rocks! Picture and article about the new satellite designed to investigate solar flares. But why is it a Japanese venture? Why aren’t we doing that?
Big, Bad Government
California was in the news today in 2 cases that meet the criteria of this entry’s title. First, the big, bad state angle: Cali has filed suit against automakers because cars emit greenhouse gases. Get out! You’ve got to admit that Arnie’s got them dead to rights there… Second, the bigger, badder federal angle: apparently…
Muslims Due an Apology?
The Pope’s recent speech has started the hornets flying, stingers out. I’ve been wondering if this was going to die down. Current indications are that it will not. Like all offended minority groups, a signficant portion of Muslim leaders have decided to be offended by this speech. I say decided because that surely must be…
5 Years Later
Americans often have short memories, as shown by a recent CNN poll that people are shifting their blame from Clinton to Bush in regard to 9/11. Many do not, however, and a cool thing is happening in the blogosphere today – blog-based tributes to the victims who died that day. Here are some: Matthew Vianna,…
The Future of Food
Rick Strahl writes an pretty good, seat-of-his-pants programming blog. But today he’s talking about the commoditization of food. Scary…
Where Would We Be?
Great Question, Dick… Dick Cheney says that “the fact is, the world is better off today with Saddam Hussein out of power” and that we should be grateful and “Think where we’d be if he was still there.” Polimom, a Houston-area blogger of some note called gives an him answer I can’t take issue with….
A Female-only College No More
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College is going co-ed, to the dismay of its students. It’s amusing as hell that chicks broke down the door at the Citadel and virtually every other males-only organization in the country but now whine when the shoe they threw drops on them.