New Yorker publishes controversial Obama cartoon
July 13, 2008
On the cover of their July 21st issue of The New Yorker Magazine, a highly controversial cartoon featuring Barack Obama dressed in foreign clothes, and his wife Michelle Obama dressed as a militant radical, both celebrating with their much publicized fist bump in the Oval Office, all in front of a portrait of Osama bin Ladan. If that is not enough, there is an American flag burning in the fireplace.
This cartoon aparantly was supposed to be a “satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama’s right wing critics have tried to create”
This cartoon was part of a lengthy article on Obama titled ” How Chicago shaped Obama”
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Will Obama Shift basis of Affirmative Action from Race to Class Disparities?
March 31, 2008
Walking a Fine Line: When asked if his daughters should receive preferences in college admissions, Obama said they should be considered ‘pretty advantaged’
As the Presidential Race comes closer, we will feature some of the leading candidates policies especially those pertinent to college students and students in general.
Barack Obama walks the fine line on race and with respect to race based affirmative action, he shows his reputation for fresh thinking.
In an interview last May on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” the senator was asked whether his own daughters should someday receive preferences in college admissions. His response was startling: “I think that my daughters should probably be treated by any admissions officer as folks who are pretty advantaged.” He added, “I think that we should take into account white kids who have been disadvantaged and have grown up in poverty and shown themselves to have what it takes to succeed.”
His comments lit up the blogosphere with speculation that as president he might spearhead a major policy change, shifting the basis of affirmative action from race to class disparities.
The statement fits into Obama’s record on the issue, which has never been black and white.
Source: Newsweek
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January 13, 2008
Why did President Bush invade Iraq? Well, the following speech shall answer that question stating out President Bush’s Iraq Policy
The World According to America
January 13, 2008
The picture below sometimes represents the narrow minded view of us Americans about what we think about the rest of the world … who are friends are, our best friends, the kangaroos, the oil, the desert, America and more America.
The World According to America and Americans folks…
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December 5, 2007
Penn & Teller debunk Intelligent Design as a possible scientific theory, even while it is being added to science curricula across the U.S.
This program originally aired back in March of 2003, and Cobb County’s “intelligent design” policies were stricken down by a federal judge in Atlanta as unconstitutional in 2005.
But, scientifically speaking, creation is not a theory. It’s not even a hypothesis. It can’t be disproven. Hell, I’m not sure it can even be tested. Evolution was a hypothesis. Supporting evidence was gathered and it became a theory. For nearly 150 years it’s been tested and has not been disproven. Sure we’ve made adjustments and corrections, but the core concept remains.
Evolution will never advance beyond a theory in science, because it’s impossible to prove. That’s how the scientific process works. The more we fail to disprove a theory, the more likely its accuracy. People are free to believe in creation, but it can’t be a scientific theory because you can’t devise an experiment to disprove it. It cannot be tested. This makes it useless, whether true or false. Evolution theory can be used to make predictions and advances. So long as those predictions and advances hold up, the truth of the theory is actually fairly irrelevant, though it is obviously strengthened each time it is successfully used.
It’s always possible that something will come along and throw a wrench in our ideas on evolution and we’ll need to *ahem* evolve new ways of thinking.
What I don’t think ID/Creationism proponents ever really contemplate is this… Do you believe in survival of the fittest? Do you believe that an animal that is better suited to its life and environment will produce more successfully/frequently than one that is less well suited? To me, that’s just simple logic and observation. Of course it will. It’s no different than the best college basketball team making it through March madness and taking the NCAA championship. Yes, in any given season the best team might have a bad game at a bad time, but on average over the course of years, the best teams come out on top.
Now if you’ve accepted that, the logical next step is that those animals with advantages will pass those advantages on, and over time that can shift the attributes of the species.
We see evolution happen all the time, but opponents choose to ignore it. New strains of influenza pop up every year, for example.
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October 12, 2007
RON PAUL - PRESIDENT 2008
Congressman Ron Paul is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation’s capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He is known among his congressional colleagues and his constituents for his consistent voting record. Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution. In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the “one exception to the Gang of 535″ on Capitol Hill. He makes it clear that his principles will never be compromised, and they never are.”
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