Any government’s most sacred respon­si­bil­ity should be hon­or­ing the will of the pop­u­lace. Direct democ­racy is regarded impos­si­ble, so we turn to rep­re­sen­ta­tives in hopes that they will accu­rately trans­late our ide­ol­ogy into pol­icy. But rep­re­sen­ta­tives fash­ioned by oli­garchy are not account­able.... Read More »

It was our des­tiny to spread this great nation from sea to shin­ing sea. The natives tram­pled under­foot of this expan­sion­ism had only God to pule to. Orig­i­nally expan­sion seemed nearly impos­si­ble, our front was sur­rounded by var­i­ous, pow­er­ful Euro­pean colonies; but early in the 19th cen­tury, due to tur­moil in... Read More »

Amer­i­cans are a proud, opti­mistic group of peo­ple, yet they suf­fer from a supe­ri­or­ity com­plex and a sense of enti­tle­ment. For them, the entire coun­try (and later the world) pro­vides just one big oppor­tu­nity to seize what­ever they can and suc­ceed in any way pos­si­ble. While this has led many peo­ple to find... Read More »

Novem­ber 13, 2008 Dear President-Elect Obama: I grew up lov­ing this coun­try. As a child, I some­times felt sur­rounded by feel­ings of com­pa­tri­o­tism and unity that inspired in me a nation­al­ism, which I held with utmost pride. How­ever, I was only a child, and was obstructed by the unavoid­able veil of naivety and... Read More »

The Jew­ish Holo­caust, the Armen­ian Exter­mi­na­tion, the Rwanda tragedy, and recently the mas­sacres in Dar­fur undoubt­edly rep­re­sent the sore burns of moral human­ity on Earth. Bru­tally mur­dered, count­less inno­cent human beings have been the casu­al­ties of a war on reli­gion and race. With mali­cious and... Read More »