Countdown White House-RNC E-Mail Scandal

Followup: During the 2007 Congressional investigation of the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys, it was discovered that administration officials had been using a private Internet domain, called gwb43.com, owned by and hosted on an email server run by the Republican...
Antarctica Melting

Antarctica Melting

Ice Tipping A team of NASA and university scientists has found clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures. This was the first widespread Antarctic melting ever detected with NASA’s...

Common Sense

Common sense allows us to view issues in a pragmatic fashion. When any issue is caught up in bias, its capacity for reason is diluted. Many a bill has been compromised to meet the needs of bias rather than the public good. This usually depends on who has the voting...

Original Intent

Our forefathers considered a direct democracy when crafting the Constitution and were reticent to adopt the model as they felt that minorities may not be properly represented. In our current system it seems that the biggest concerns are special interests that use...

Politics

Empowering people or empowering government? What about empowering reason? In keeping with our theme, we need to examine what makes sense. When people think of politics, there is a generally negative perception that comes to mind. Since politics should actually be a...

Spinning

Awareness is the best defense. In public relations, spin is a usually derogative term that represents a sometimes strongly biased portrayal in one’s own perspective of an event or situation. While traditional public relations may rely on creatively presenting...