Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine and destroy popular movements whenever possible.
To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them.
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.
I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing
Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?
Tourist trips to Cuba are being abused. They are tourist trips that are providing hard currency for a dictatorial, tyrannical regime to get hard currency that it uses to oppress its people. And that's why these trips need to be carefully scrutinized.
Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.