The Media’s Role

A joke has President Bush and the Pope sailing down the Potomac on the Presidential yacht. The wind blows the Pontiff’s cap off and it falls into the water. President Bush orders the yacht stopped, gets off and walks across the water to retrieve the Pope’s...

Unicorns, Jedi, and Plastic Guns

During the recent vice presidential debate, Senator Edwards criticized Vice President Cheney for voting “against banning plastic weapons that can pass through metal detectors.” The ban to which Edwards was referring was the Undetectable Firearms Act of...

Watch Both Boots

Remember “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth”? Today, it’s more like “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the debt.” The federal deficit this year will hit a record $422 billion, according to the latest...

UN Seeks New Environmental Treaty

Forty: That’s the number of global and regional legal documents already in existence that dictate what actions can and cannot be taken regarding the world’s forests. Forty-one: That’s the number the United Nations hopes to reach via a new treaty on...

Responsible Voting

Every election year there are great alarms in the media that not enough Americans vote. Supposedly this shows that there is something wrong at the core of our society. In reality, societies where different groups are at each other’s throats often have high voter...