I stumbled across a story this morning which made me hesitate a little while before deciding to compose a quick response. Yesterday morning, Zack Ford, blogger at ThinkProgress.org, penned a story entitled “Scalia Suggests ‘Hand-Held Rocket Launchers’ Are Protected Under Second Amendment”. In the story, he references an earlier morning interview on Fox News with Justice Antonin Scalia in which Scalia was asked about his views on the Second Amendment with regards to the recent shooting in Aurora, ...
"Mostly, we are terrified of terror without cause. It feeds no agenda, it supports no doctrine, its takes no side. The pitiful attempt to assign it purpose reveals our darkest fears-that sometimes evil has no design. Sometimes, it has no rhyme or reason." Aurora: No Rhyme or Reason...What We Really Fear http://johncaelan.quebb.net/2012/07/...e-really-fear/ In the aftermath of the Aurora “Dark Knight” shootings (a branding ...
Sadly, yet another lunatic was on the rampage in Colorado this past week. Politically, this event can be discussed in a wide variety of ways. The mainstream news will, of course, focus on the extreme emotions felt by those immediately involved. Many people will once again clamor for the prohibition of firearms. Some will likely even blame the movie itself. Regardless of where you stand it must be admitted that, tactically speaking, this was an easily preventable event. First, ...
In light of a brief DP discussion on the southern way of life, I have found myself thinking deeply on it. There is the general misconception that southerners are usually less intelligent and lazier than the rest of America. I find this to be quite disrespectful, being from the south and living here for all of my still short life. What is it about the south that makes people think that we're dumb? Is it that our advance into the technological world has been slower? Is it that the social transformation ...
We live in a society where accurate representations seem to be nearly non existent and intentionally misleading others to promote our products or views is common place. Heck seemingly meaningless (in greater scheme of things) things such as a fast food hamburger is misrepresented. When was the last time you received a hamburger that actually looked like the juicy burger in the advertisement? Instead we get a product that generally is half as appealing. What about product advertisements on television. ...
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