As I read over the account of Leslie Burke, the British citizen who argued for the right to stay alive if circumstances arose where doctors thought he should be put to death by starvation, a case which he lost on appeal, I prayed that I would never find myself infirm and helpless and unable to [...]
Folks, Italian politics are a riot!. Trust me, I know – I’m Italian (well, used to be). There are in Italy some 22 political parties and affiliations of all colors, shapes and forms reflecting all lines of philosophical thinking and social doctrines ever pipe-dreamed by humans since the time Homo Erectus decided to step out [...]
Also consistent with past years, the vigil consisted of several and diverse non-violent civic activities. Activities included a demonstration by the “puppetistas” (participatory street theatre consisting of large puppets), a procession, a “die in” (a display symbolizing massacres carried out by SOA graduates), and citizens crossing over the SOA fence to express their discontent with [...]
There is a group of online anti-Globalist, anti-US, anti-Free Enterprise and anti-elite family with European royal bloodlines; who want to remove the Bush Administration from power. That’s all we need a group of psychotic, conspiracy theorists and lunatic fringe dictating US policy? Some of these conspiracy nut cases like David Ike from the UK are [...]
Over the last few weeks I’ve tried to get an interview with a high White House official. I was not successful in this, but I did catch Jose Caliente when he got off work. When he came out onto Pennsylvania Avenue, I said, “Ho! Jose!” He stopped and looked at me and said, “Do you [...]
My brother told me the most dangerous place to be in the whole world today is a mothers womb. I knew he was speaking of abortion and I was ruffled by his candidness but I could find no way to argue with what he said. 450 million abortions in America to date have convinced me [...]
I believe that the right to die should, in most cases, be a personal matter and not a political matter (I am talking for adults, not for children. Children, and I include teenagers in this, have not lived long enough and do not have enough life experience to decide their own fates. Some of them [...]
The silence on Capitol Hill has been deafening. On April 28, 2006 the White House announced the approval by President George Bush regarding the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) of its recommendation that Dubai International Capital LLC (DIC), a subsidiary of Dubai Holding and a Dubai government owned conglomerate, to assume [...]
Radio Prague recently covered the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution and highlighted the discontent many Czech people feel concerning the current political climate in the Czech Republic. Within this fairly benign story I’ve noticed an interesting trend – something I’ve been watching for a little while and think is worth highlighting. I develop a website [...]
Many liberals in California are quite worried that California will be totally flooded and the dikes will break. Why? Well a couple of reasons one is that temperatures are starting to heat up and another is this means that the more than usual snowfall is melting and will over run the rivers. In fact there [...]