Morality And Government Should Morality Stop At The State House Steps? To get elected, candidates are increasingly talking about their faith. A judge here in Alabama a few years ago ran campaign ads saying he would “go by the book,” and it showed his hand on the Bible. Recently, Harold Ford campaigned for the U.S. … Continue reading “Morality And Government”
Bush In Vietnam – The Irony Is Too Much The Irony Is Just Incredible In Vietnam, Bush cites lessons for Iraq, saying Vietnam war teaches us “we’ll succeed unless we quit.” WHAT?! You realize you’re sitting under a giant statue of Ho Chi Minh, right? You’re citing a non-example example? President Bush is in Vietnam … Continue reading “Bush In Vietnam – The Irony Is Too Much”
Growing Backlash Against Inequality Jim Webb Tackles The Problem of Inequality In my last post, I talked about how Alabama shows that the lowest taxes don’t translate into the most wealth; we are one of the poorest states and at the bottom of nearly every category, nearly third-world. The huge, largely untaxed wealth at the … Continue reading “Growing Backlash Against Inequality”
Undo The Alabamization Of America! Why I’m A Liberal The Democrats have now won both houses of Congress. Let me go back to the basics and explain. I’m far from a “proud Democrat,” but let’s be real here; it’s an unavoidable truth that what the GOP has done is incredibly damaging to our future. When … Continue reading “Undo The Alabamization Of America!”
Former Sandinista Wins Nicaragua Presidency An Addendum To U.S. Vows To Punish Nicaragua For Elections As I reported in detail in the aforementioned post, the U.S. administration has recently been meddling in Nicaraguan affairs by openly supporting the Contra-type opponents of former Sandinista Daniel Ortega’s leading presidential bid, sending Oliver North to Nicaragua to stump … Continue reading “Former Sandinista Wins Nicaragua Presidency”
President of the National Association of Evangelicals Admits Gay Allegations Addendum to Hypocrisy It seems my recent post, Hypocrisy, which noted the unavoidable, persistent phenomenon of gay men leading the anti-gay crusade, was all too prescient, as Ted Haggard, the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, revealed Sunday that “I am a deceiver and … Continue reading “President of the National Association of Evangelicals Admits Gay Allegations”
U.S. Vows To Punish Nicaragua For Elections This post is based on the NPR report, Observers Warn of U.S. Manipulation in Nicaragua It’s so sickening to see our government continuing to support the dark side in Latin America: these corporate feudalist, Jesuit assassinating Contra-types. I went to Spring Hill College, a Jesuit college, so I … Continue reading “U.S. Vows To Punish Nicaragua For Elections”
It’s Never Been “Stay The Course?” An Addendum to the hypocrisy post
Hypocrisy It is an issue I haven’t blogged about the Mark Foley scandal. It seems superfluous; the badness of it is so obvious, and the media and the public’s insatiable appetite for sexual titillation provided wall-to-wall coverage of all aspects of the case, so what more can I add? But I do want to comment … Continue reading “Hypocrisy”
For 2006 Republican Leadership, Support For Slavery Runs Deep More Revelations In Marianas Scandal Show GOP Chairman Involved Yesterday, I shed light on the disgusting Republican effort to protect deplorable labor conditions on the American-controlled Northern Marianas Islands, where Chinese immigrants are kept in sweatshops with little to no pay and not allowed to leave. … Continue reading “For 2006 Republican Leadership, Support For Slave Labor Runs Deep”
Bush Government Supporting Slavery And Forced Abortions Top Rove Aide Involved In Abramoff Scandal Resigns The Abramoff corruption and its reach deep into the government has been horribly unreported by the mainstream media; almost no one knows about it (liberal media? please.) and the most outrageous aspect of this scandal is how Abramoff and Tom … Continue reading “Bush Gov’t & House Cronies Supporting Slavery, Forced Abortions”
Is Constitutional Government Dead? A Look Back At That Quiant Document While I’ve recently been ranting against “mainstream American culture” as being evil, because it’s become dominated by Fox News and Britney Spears, I do love this country. I love America because it’s based not on shared origins or royal blood, but on wonderful ideas, … Continue reading “Is Constitutional Government Dead?”
What You Need To Know About The Middle East “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” — George Santayana Steven Pressfield recently wrote an in-depth piece on Iraq, Why We Will Never See Democracy in the Middle East. His main thesis that we are operating in Iraq while largely ignorant of … Continue reading “What You Need To Know About The Middle East”
The Best Of Nick’s Blog 2006 Some favorites from my blogging for 2006… Governor Riley Refuses Federal Funding For Home Care My editorial on Alabama Medicaid’s institutional bias, and their resistance to do the right thing, even refusing federal help. Nick Gets Religion I explain what I’ve come to believe, and break down the Jewish … Continue reading “The Best Of Nick’s Blog 2006”
Some People Of Faith Uniting To Stop American Torture I apologize if I came down too harshly on Christians supporting torture in my previous post. Many sincere Christians oppose torture. Check out this article from Christianity Today magazine: 5 Reasons Torture Is Always Wrong. It gives an accurate assessment and lays out some great Biblical … Continue reading “Religious People Against Torture”
Government Sanctioned Immorality Reaching Scary Proportions Okay, we have a President of The United States of America, leader of the free world, who is pulling out all the stops to get a bill allowing more leeway on torture through Congress. This should be incredibly shocking to all of you. This post is Nick ranting about … Continue reading “Compromise On Torture?”
How Can Anyone Not See It? We’re digging up fossil fuels and pumping them into the air like never before, and the government still denies mass carbon emissions are causing global warming. All the smog that’s increasing children’s allergies and asthma worldwide on a scale heretofor unimaginable, is being ignored. I just clicked on Yahoo … Continue reading “Global Warming”
An Addendum To My Previous 9/11 Blog In my last 9/11 blog, I commented on how raw the event still feels to me. How close it feels. How fresh the wound still is. But it is also so very far away. Isn’t it amazing that the second-graders who were reading “The Pet Goat” to the … Continue reading “September 11: Also Very Far Away”
Anniversary of Terror September 11, 2001 my grandmother woke me up and told me the country was under attack. I turned on the TV and saw the replays of the second plane flying into the tower. It had just hit the tower — I SAW IT. I know what I saw; planes full of jet … Continue reading “September 11: Still Too Raw For Me”
In A New Segment, I Dissect What The Dumb Media Is And Isn’t Covering As the recent media blitz surrounding fake Jon Benet murder suspect John Mark Karr has shown us, the mainstream media (MSM) is completely clueless about what IS and ISN’T news. Since everyone is so confused, I’ll give you a breakdown on … Continue reading “News, Not News”
Historic First Human Rights Treatry of New Millenium The UN Disability Rights Treaty has been approved! It is the first human rights treaty of the new millenium, and is aimed at protecting the planet’s estimated 650 million disabled people. It bans discriminatory laws and practices, and it is supposed to spur a revolutionary change in … Continue reading “Disability Rights Treaty”