Well-Researched Arguments Are Much Sweeter to Win, Alec

January 31, 2005 by

Alec Mouhibian, I have to object to your last column ("Wake Up, Progressives: History Refutes Anti-Globalization Pipe Dreams," Daily Nexus, Jan. 24). I have come to accept that I will almost inevitabl...
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Government Clowns Scare America

January 9, 2004 by

With the United States on Code Orange, now is a great time to consider the role that fear plays in public policy. You could argue that it doesn't. There are, after all, no laws against spiders, ninjas...
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Gender Equality as Elusive as Feminism

November 20, 2003 by

There seems to be a lot of confusion in this country about feminism. Even experts on the subject seem to have a difficult time explaining it. Experts Phyllis Schlafly and Anita Perez Ferguson both adm...
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Marriage Protection Week Is a Time to Fight Love

October 23, 2003 by

I hope that everyone had an excellent Marriage Protection Week. Devoting an entire week to celebrating love and encouraging it to blossom is a wonderful idea.
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Pornographers: The Champions of American Values

October 7, 2003 by

I'm appalled at the lack of civility being shown to an upstanding segment of our community: pornographers. These paragons of America's defining value - freedom - are inexplicably reviled despite cease...
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Sound Arguments for Earth

May 13, 2003 by

This is in response to Justin Ruhge's column (Daily Nexus, "University Idealism Is Anything But Right," May 8). Far from being a secret communist movement, environmentalism is the principle that all a...
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Absence of Evidence Should Cut It for the American Government

February 5, 2003 by

Anti-war activists have faced derision for not explaining in detail why they oppose war with Iraq. It's a clever evasion; the question that needs to be answered is not "Why not war?"
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Russia’s Take on Terror is no Model for Our Own

November 8, 2002 by

It is hypocritical of American media to be critical of Russia's handling of their most recent terrorist attack but simultaneously support America's war on terror.
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Use Political Powers to Help, Not to Cause More Problems

May 23, 2002 by

Local politics are great. You and I have much more influence here, where our voices aren't drowned out by millions of others, as in state and national matters.
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U.N. Has a Right to Judge POW Treatment

January 29, 2002 by

The recent criticism of the United Nations by Henry Sarria ( "U.S.'s Treatment of Taliban Doesn't Warrant Criticism") is expressive and emotionally persuasive. Its only flaw is the complete lack of fa...
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Stop Your Complaining and Whining; Back Up Your Beliefs

November 21, 2001 by

I've heard variations on "America - love it or leave it" far too often recently. It's amazing that people can claim to be patriotic and simultaneously be so ignorant of the values for which our countr...
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