Jack Elgin

The choice between a friendly tyrant and uncertain democracy is and must be no choice at all

Some background: Egypt is majority-Muslim nation of about 80 million people, making it the tenth most populous country on Earth and the largest Arabic-speaking country. It sits on the Suez canal, one of the world's...

Rush Limbaugh and the mainstream media have finally agreed on something: Wanting you to die.

There are no words sufficient to describe the apopletic rage that I feel and that every American should feel at this particular moment, at the woeful incompetence and lack of knowledge, even of basic logic, exhibited by every member of...

Dubai, totally dependent on Western tourism, decides to jail British couple for kissing

Sometimes, in studying history, we have the benefit of hindsight. Things that seem obvious to us now-- that appeasement wouldn't work against the Nazis, that the anarchic nature of the French Revolution would lead to bloodshed and a...

The United States of America is not a democracy. Thank God.

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed...

Breaking: North Koreans believed responsible for sinking of a South Korean ship, dozens feared dead

Reuters, The New York Times, Fox, and others are reporting on a breaking story; it seems that a South Korean military vessel was sunk by a torpedo fired from North Korea. Some of the sailors have been rescued but others...

A society acting like a society is not socialism; focus now on improving the bill, not killing it.

In the United States of America, if you were to be accosted by a burglar, or held hostage by a lone gunman, we would, as a society, hardly flinch at whatever monetary cost was required to employ paid professionals and...

What kind of weak, morally bankrupt commander in chief would try terrorists in American courts?

Getting warmer AP The answer to the above question, as it turns out, is Ronald Reagan. Excerpt: "An American investigation identified Yunis as the probable leader of the hijackers and prompted U.S. civilian and military agencies, led by...

America already has, by far, the most expensive system of universal healthcare in the world

I want you to look at the above title, because it makes two important claims, which have heretofore been largely absent or ignored in all discussions (on almost every side) of the healthcare debate raging in America thus far. These...

Of course America tortures. And you already know about it.

I. In a way, I had kind of hoped that the topic of "enhanced interrogation techniques" would simply go away. It does not appear that that will be the case. It's not that I feel the...

Mississippi's courts determined to carry on proud tradition of embarassing the entire country

Fury said to a mouse, that he met in the house"Let us go to the law- I will prosecute you.Come, we must have a trial- I'll take no denial-For really this morning I've...

The choice between a friendly tyrant and uncertain democracy is and must be no choice at all

Rush Limbaugh and the mainstream media have finally agreed on something: Wanting you to die.

Dubai, totally dependent on Western tourism, decides to jail British couple for kissing

The United States of America is not a democracy. Thank God.

Breaking: North Koreans believed responsible for sinking of a South Korean ship, dozens feared dead

A society acting like a society is not socialism; focus now on improving the bill, not killing it.

What kind of weak, morally bankrupt commander in chief would try terrorists in American courts?

America already has, by far, the most expensive system of universal healthcare in the world

Of course America tortures. And you already know about it.

Mississippi's courts determined to carry on proud tradition of embarassing the entire country

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