Thomas Jefferson said “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” That is the risk of Democracy — that ignorant people will use it to promote values of intolerance. Remember that Hitler, Chavez, and Ahmadinejad were all elected. Although the [...]
The Associated Press, via FoxNews, reports that a group of village elders in Hyderabad Pakistan ruled in January that, in payment for a sixteen year old poker debt created by her dead father, 17 year old Rasheeda Umrani was to be forced into marriage to one of Lal Haider’s sons. Most of Pakistan is still [...]
The following is a guest editorial by SPC “Doc” Shurley of 2/5 Cav, 1st CB who is currently stationed in Iraq. An American Soldier’s View of Problems in Iraq The following is an article about Bush’s National Address about troop increase. I thought it was a good idea to let you all know what the [...]
Islam is not the direct cause of terrorism in our world. Yes, the vast majority of terrorists are Islamic. However, there are also hundreds of millions of Muslims living in peace on this planet. The Muslim world, however, is a disaster. It is politically, economically, and socially backwards. It is hundreds of years behind Western [...]
