12/03/08

Voters Deserve “No respect”
By Emiliano Antunez

Earlier this month, bug eyed comedic legend Rodney Dangerfield checked out of this existence. Dangerfield was best known for his one liners and, most of all, his signature line, “I get no respect.” As November nears, voters are probably beginning to feel a certain lack of respect from politicians. As they watch candidates on debates evade the issues, political ads that twist and omit the truth, in addition to listening to speeches long on rhetoric yet short on substance, many voters can't help but sense that they’re not being respected in the least, by both incumbents and their "major" challengers. In real life, respect is something that is earned. (Read the rest here)

In Kobe Case, Accuser Is Rightly Identified
by Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.net

Last Friday, the judge who presided over Kobe Bryant's "rape" case announced that more sealed documents will soon be released.

With new facts emerging from the now-dismissed criminal case and a related civil court case pending, the debate surrounding Bryant continues.

The manner in which society, the media and perhaps the law approach "victims" is being gradually redefined.

One of the most controversial questions raised is whether Bryant's accuser should be publicly named. During the criminal proceeding, the accuser's name and most of her history received the nominal protection of Colorado's Rape Shield Law. A media taboo against identifying "victims" of sexual assault ensured anonymity in the mainstream press.
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America’s First Jewish President - Putting Israel First
By Ted Lang © 2004

If Bill Clinton was America’s “first black president,” then President George Bush can be judged our “first Jewish president.” Only about three percent of our population is deemed Jewish. In a nation of about 285 million people, that would come out to about eight or nine million citizens of the Jewish faith. But Zionism, which includes a contingent of about 20 million Christian fundamentalists, encompasses neither all Jews nor all Christians. Many of the Jewish faith, both in America and Israel, oppose Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and vehemently disagree with his apartheid and genocidal policies. But Bush and his PNAC neoconservative warmongers support Israel’s policy of mass murder and racist relocation and apartheid, and all our military and foreign aid efforts in the Middle East are based strictly upon this madness. (Read the rest here)

Field of (Bad) Dreams
By Sam Bostaph

Washington, D.C., will soon begin construction of a new taxpayer-funded baseball stadium at an estimated cost of $400 million, give or take $50 million. Thirty-three years after the Washington Senators left town to become the Texas Rangers, a majority vote of the D.C. city council will fill the vacancy by providing the former Montreal Expos the stadium that Montreal voters denied them. Touting the project, Mayor Anthony Williams of Washington claims that the revenue bonds that will be issued to build the stadium will be paid off completely by a lease payment of $15 million a year, by taxes on facility revenues, and by socking large businesses in D.C. with a new tax. (Read the rest here)

Libertarian Commentary on The Day's News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2004

Islamic parties dominate Iraq poll
Washington Post
No surprise here! There may be "Islamic republics" but they scarcely meet a western or libertarian definition of the word, and it should be no surprise, when reading the Koran - the society based on Islamic principles is so very different from one based on Judeo-Christian principles that it is difficult to see any similarity at all, even though both may be based on the "rule of law."

Libertarian candidate's book hits Amazon charts
eMediaWire
A surprise victory, and a valuable aid for the future, in a nation where it still appears that fewer than 5 out of 10 voters even know about the Libertarian Party, or apparently are capable of reading below the first two lines on a ballot. Becoming part of the popular internet culture will help, a lot. (Read the rest here)

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