Posts Tagged ‘ Speech ’

State of the Union: The Best Response is not a Formal Response

2011-01-28
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Republican Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin delivered the official “Republican Response” to the State of the Union (SOTU). I wish there were no official response, and that’s not because I didn’t want to hear from a Republican. I’m a Republican, and I’m even interested in some of Ryan’s ideas for controlling spending. I’d have...

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Wikileaks War: No More Secrets

2010-12-23
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As the latest Wikileaks saga unfolded I couldn’t help but recall the scene in the film Sneakers where Martin “Marty” Bishop (Robert Redford) and Cosmo (Ben Kingsley) discuss the “code breaker.” Cosmo: There’s a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it’s not about who’s got the most bullets. It’s about who...

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President Obama’s Faith Protectors

2010-08-31
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Over 70 Christian leaders and denominational heads have signed a letter saying that questions about the religious philosophy of the president of the United States should be ignored and suppressed by the major media.

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The Cultural Kommissars at Slate want Filmmaker Jason Reitman to STFU

2010-04-02
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The Cultural Kommissars at Slate want Filmmaker Jason Reitman to STFU

One indicator of how far statism has progressed in American society and culture is the tendency to view everything through a political lens. Feminists used to argue that “the personal is the political,” and this attitude has become commonplace on both sides of the political spectrum. A recent essay by Slate columnist Dennis Lim...

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“Anonymous” releases statements outlining “War on Scientology”

2008-01-23
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The Internet-based group “Anonymous” has released statements on YouTube and via a press release, outlining what they call a “War on Scientology”. Church of Scientology related websites, such as religousfreedomwatch.org have been removed due to a suspected distributed denial-of-service-attack (DDoS) by a group calling themselves “Anonymous”. On Friday, the same group allegedly brought down...

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