Column Listings

But First, A Note on References

All references made in the columns to support factual claims are current at the time of writing. I have made every effort to use sources that are not “disposable.” This is fairly straight forward for most background information (though, not all); however, it is not always so easy to find static web pages with current information that will exist in the future.

Given the nature of web based publishing, and the fact that many of the topics that I write about are up-to-the-minute current, it is sometimes difficult to guarantee that links to ongoing situations will still be valid in a week or a month, let alone a year.

A good example of this problem is with yahoo.com’s news services, which are extremely reliable news feeds. The information is up to date, mostly unbiased, accurate and impartial – yet the web pages are often transitory.

The problem of web pages – and therefore, information in general – disappearing is examined at some length at The Memory Hole (thememoryhole.org). While the focus of this page is often information that is intentionally “lost,” it certainly provides intriguing insight into this phenomena of information loss during the information age.

Columns - October/November, 2004

• Protest in Portland: A Narrative Account (11/06/2004)
• Four More Years: A Liberal Call to Arms (11/04/2004)
• Where Does the Buck Stop? (10/29/2004)
• Say What, Too? (10/28/2004)

Columns - October, 2004

• No Blame, No foul? (10/27/2004)
• Say What? (10/27/2004)
• Iraq: The Money Pit (10/26/2004)
• The Guilt of a Nation: The War Crimes Continue (10/24/2004)
• Ann Coulter Partisans Demand “Death to Al Pieda!” (10/23/2004)
• The Weekly Update on History Rewritten (10/23/2004)
• There They Go Again: Those Double-Plus-Plus-Ungood Liberals are Undermining America (10/22/2004)
• Pax Americana: The Subtext in the Simple Statements of George W. Bush (10/21/2004)
• American Medicine: A Prescription for Crisis (10/19/2004)
  •       1. Introduction
  •       2. An Aging Population: We Serve No Health Care Disaster Before It’s Time
  •       3. No Assurance from Health Insurance
  •       4. Prescription Drugs - A Bitter Pill
  •       5. Send in the Mounties
  •       6. The Flu Vaccine Shortage – A Case Study
  •       7. Politician, Heal Thyself
  •       8. Conclusions
• Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Dirtier (10/14/2004)
• Simplicity (10/14/2004)
• Simplicity (10/14/2004)
• Our Busy Beavers in the Congress (10/11/2004)
• Round Two: Temper and Delusion (10/09/2004)
• Ashcroft, Bush, et al. v The Constitution: Assault on the Judiciary (10/07/2004)
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Iraq (10/07/2004)
• What Did They Know, and When Did They Know It (10/03/2004)
• An Open Letter and Response to A Challenge to Kerry’s Approach to The War In Iraq (10/02/2004)
• All Your Bible Are Belong to Us - Waiting for Karl Rove's Counter-attack (10/01/2004)

Columns - September, 2004

• Trading Our Fundamental Rights for a Sense of Security (9/30/2004)
• Who Really Won the Debates Tonight? (9/30/2004)
• Nuclear Proliferation in the Aftermath of Iraq (9/28/2004)
• Pride Before the Fall (9/26/2004)
• Can There Truly Be Legitimate Elections In Iraq? (9/25/2004)
• True Freedom: The Most Effective Weapon Against Terror (9/24/2004)
• Bush’s U.N. Speech: A Disgrace to America (9/21/2004)
• Why We Are Loosing the War on Terror (9/15/2004)
• Why Haven’t We Put Saddam Hussein on Trial Yet? (9/11/2004)
• EDS Next on the Guillotine-Alter of Outsourcing to CEO Salaries (9/10/2004)
• The Week In Terror (09/09/2004)
• Our Fine Economy (9/05/2004)
• Defense of Marriage: An Offense Against Individual Rights (9/04/2004)
• The Republican Convention Four Years Ago, The Republican Convention Today, and Everything In Between (9/03/2003)
• When Liberators Become Occupiers – The Betrayal of Our Troops and Our Cause (9/02/2004)
• 10 Questions for the Republicans (9/01/2004)
• Recipe For a Terrorist (9/01/2004)