It’s hard to generate much sympathy for BP. Their operation led to an explosion that killed several people and is now pouring countless amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. I understand President Obama’s desire to make them pay, and I see where they really couldn’t put up much of a fuss about […]
I read an interesting article online today. The writer expressed his frustration that the international community has made a much bigger deal out of an Israeli action that killed 9, rather than a North Korean action that killed over 40. Let’s look at some of the facts: Israel was inspecting goods that were going into
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I’ve been reading a little bit recently about the tension between questions of science and questions of faith. There are some people who believe that science has all of the answers and religious belief is nothing more than misguided superstition. For example, these thinkers argue that the Intelligent Design movement is just a Trojan Horse
Several things have occurred to me in relation to the oil leak in the Gulf and subsequent efforts to deal with the problem. Would it be possible to work on multiple efforts for stopping the leak at the same time? It seems like they try one thing then when that fails they start on
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I’ve read a few articles recently that discussed President Obama’s new foreign policy principles. He has committed himself to working with other countries in carrying out international objectives. This is supposed to be a change from the George W. Bush era when the United States acted in a unilateral fashion. Frankly, I’ve read the articles,
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