If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If you feel the urge to protest at this year’s Democratic convention just know that the state sees you as a threat and therefore will have you behind a fence. Not just a fence, a fence made of chicken wire or chain link. I don’t know if it’s true bu...

Today’s topic is going to be an open discussion. I could write another opinion piece but for the sake of Friday I’ll allow you to speak rather than hear me ramble on as usual. With the past two controversial rulings from the Supreme Court I thought it would be fitting for this topic to be the one for discussion. I’m looking for yo...

What Bush once considered part of the “Axis of Evil,” North Korea, has been removed from the U.S. terrorism black list. The move being made after North Kora handed over accounting of its nuclear work to Chinese officials on Thursday, thus fulfilling a key step in the denuclearization process. I have to scratch my head and wonder, “...

Finally, the unlawful gun ban in D.C. has been overturned and the right to bears arms is reaffirmed. WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes for self-defense, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun control in U.S. history. The court’s 5-4 ruling s...

The Supreme Court ruled early on Wednesday that raping a child is not punishable by death. Violently and repeatedly raping an innocent child, one that has to forever live with the anguish, does not deserve death? Do those that voted against the death penalty for such sick and twisted acts not have children? In my mind the only thing as wrong as mur...

Barack Obama is a mirage, a brilliantly painted picture for the entire world to gander at. He has done nothing extraordinary enough to get to the stage of fame he has reached. In all reality Obama is adored for the image he has craftily created for himself. Obama is a populist; he says what people want to hear and makes them feel good. Hope, everyo...

Sometimes a high profile endorsement is all a candidate needs to improve their influence over a given demographic. If you need help getting your influence into the Hispanic community an endorsement from a well respected Hispanic in the political arena is a great way to improve your reputation. Same goes with any other demographic. So what happens w...

The spotlight has come and gone for these politicians. They set out to rule America, to be your President, but their hopes quickly dwindled. So where are they now? They were sure for a couple quick months that they were set for Presidential fame but that reality check finally went through and they are now back to square one. Let’s see what th...

Guess who recently threw their support behind Obama? Kim Jong-Il and Fidel Castro. The Chosun Sinbo, the mouthpiece of North Korea’s Japanese front organization Chongryon and often for the North Korean regime itself, has announced its preference for Obama over McCain, whom it calls “a variant of Bush” and “nothing better than a scarecrow o...

In the third part of ‘Politics and the New Media’ we’ll be discussing some hard lessons for politicians, read part one here and part two over here. Turn on the TV and you’ll be bombarded by political opinion specifically hand picked by that network. Too liberal, too conservative, you are stuck with a handful of choices that ...