Published: Good Men Project (December 19, 2014)
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If North Korea has shown the world anything, it is that the executives at Sony are abject cowards.
This may sound rough, but it needs to be said.... Read Original Article
Published: Good Men Project (December 18, 2014)
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Is it too much to expect Americans who expect to profit from the First Amendment to stand up for its underlying ethos?
Of course, due emphasis must be placed on the phrase “underlying ethos” in the aforementioned sentence.... Read Original Article
Published: mic (December 9, 2013)
Back in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan, Dick Cheney, and other paladins of the American right labeled Nelson Mandela a terrorist.
While mainstream conservatives tend to renounce this characterization today, it still has currency in more ideologically zealous circles. Indeed, some people on Twitter are already tweeting away reiterations of the infamous “terrorist” designation.... Read Original Article
Published: mic (September 11, 2013)
While it’s a tad unorthodox to opean a political op-ed with two historical quotes, this pair strikes me as particularly prescient:
1. “They [the Union of states] will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”... Read Original Article
Published: mic (April 20, 2013)
Now that the world knows that the Boston Marathon bombers were Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, let’s take a moment to reflect on who was NOT responsible.
It wasn’t that Saudi Arabian guy who was blamed on the first day. It wasn’t the tall skinny guy in the blue shirt whose picture was plastered all over the New York Post, nor was it his friend.
Published: The Morning Call (April 15, 2013), mic (April 16, 2013)
Editor’s note: This article was written before the Boston Marathon bombings, and is not intended to be a response to that incident. All commentary in this article is on pre-Boston incidents alone and is not intended to indicate anything concerning the ongoing Boston Marathon investigation.