Image source Greetings, fellow people who read this blog. This time, I have decided to return to a political commentary, and talk about the Tea Party Movement in the US. Recently, this movement has begun to gather attention with its recent primary wins in preparation for the 2010 Congressional mid-term elections. As well, one of [...Read more...]
Recently I received a shocking email from MoveOn (the infamous liberal political action committee) about BP’s anti-sea turtle actions. Dear MoveOn member, News recently emerged from the Gulf Coast that BP is burning endangered sea turtles alive.1 That’s right. BP is using “controlled burns” to contain the oil spill, and any turtles that are not removed [...Read more...]
(Image credit: Reddit) CNN Article: Why Obama doesn’t dare become the ‘angry black man’ CNN Followup: Even discussing ‘angry black man’ stereotype provokes anger These articles were posted in early June 2010 as an evaluation of Obama’s apparent lack of anger during crises, like the BP oil spill. Essentially, CNN was trying to argue that [...Read more...]
This is an article written by Sumaira. Cell phones. Walking along the halls of my high school, all I see are faces hidden behind these electronic devices, fingers and thumbs madly clicking away. To someone who has long been denied access to such a consuming technological marvel as the modern cell phone has evolved to [...Read more...]
By Sumaira (aka “Rabba”) A five-year old Canadian boy wakes up in the morning to the delicious smell of poached eggs wafting into his room. Another boy of the same age opens his eyes across the world in Palestine smelling the decaying bodies of those that had died in the bomb blast last week. A [...Read more...]
Once upon a time perhaps I thought of Israel as the Promised Land. Later it sort of drifted to a vague list in my mind of places where wars had been fought in the last fifty years, along with names like Korea and Sudan. Only recently have I come to realize the truth about Israel: [...Read more...]
(Image source: U.S. Army) If you haven’t heard on Facebook, the U.S. Army celebrates its 235th birthday today; 1775-today! Here is what the official U.S. Army site has to say on this glorious event: Two hundred and thirty-five years ago, the United States Army was established to defend our Nation. From the Revolutionary War to [...Read more...]
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