When I came back from the debate, I already had received an e-mail from College Republicans with a link to the Bush Campaign website.
The opening statement is a quote from the campaign chairman Racicot stating that President Bush won "a decisive victory" against Kerry in the second debate. I think he did well -- better than last time -- but I would ( Read more... )

I remember watching a year or so ago a documentary about the history of comic books on the History Channel. In the Golden Age of comics, the 1930's and '40's, when really the only superheroes available were the now-flagship characters of DC Comics -- Superman and Wonder Woman (Stan Lee, the creator of Spiderman, X-men, and half a dozen other Marvel ( Read more... )

I don't know if you tuned in to much of the 9-11 Commission last spring and summer, but I recently recalled a speech made by (I believe) Senator Joseph Biden, over the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. His son is in the Reserves and is currently serving on active duty. He stated that we (the US) have signed certain treaties, namely the Geneva ( Read more... )

Senator Kerry and the Democrats (as well as his neo-socialist supporters like George Soros) have, on more than one occassion, criticized President Bush and his administration for treating our allies with disrespect. This has prompted me to ask the question: what is an ally? Is an ally simply a country with which we have signed a mutual-protection ( Read more... )

As has been stated before, both presidential campaigns (or both that have some chance of winning) are playing on people's fears. The Bush campaign is playing on the fear of terrorism, while the Kerry campaign is playing on fear of Bush. A recent Associated Press release included this quote ( Read more... )

Not for grade ( Read more... )

The film "Outfoxed" portrayed Fox News in a less than favorable light, amking them out to be far right wing distorters of fact. Bill O'Reilly is labeled as a conservative, but it should be clear to anyone who knows anything about this film (or even anyone who has watched it) that the film-makers themselves have distorted the case. If I wanted to ( Read more... )

Not for a grade. I just found some concrete confirmation of the rumor I mentioned in class today about the Communists backing John Kerry. This doesn't seem like a propagandist publication:
http://www.staugustine.com/stories/071404/opi_2435145.shtml

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The so-called "Swiftboat Vets Controversy" has been virtually dominating the news for weeks now. The group has run two or three ads and it has become one of the biggest controversies of the election so far. Never mind that moveon.org and various other liberal anti-Bush 527 groups have spent almost a hundred times more money on their ads, which are ( Read more... )