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How to Analyze the News

— by Odysseus There is an old saying that goes: if you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, he eats for the rest of his life. Some day,…

Tattoo Too

  — by Odysseus President Barack Obama recently saw fit to give America parenting advice. He shared with us an apocryphal story about how he and Michelle chose to dissuade their daughters from getting a tattoo. In doing so, by…

A Background Check that Makes Sense

— By Polydamas None of our avid readers here at The Cassandra Times should have been surprised in the least by Jenny Deam’s article in the Los Angeles Times, dated April 4, 2013, titled “James Holmes’ Psychiatrist Warned He May…

The Party of Promiscuous Puritans

— by Odysseus A curious shift has come about in the American political left over the last 25 years, and one that challenges the notion that its adherents should be called “liberals”. Since the 1970s, their whole raison d’être seems…

Economic Folly From a Nobel Prize Winner

— by Polydamas On February 17, 2013, Paul Krugman wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times titled “Raise That Wage” (http://nyti.ms/Xf5cPF). In his opinion piece, Krugman demonstrated without doubt that his 2008 Nobel Prize in economics was just…

An Armed Society is a Truly Civilized Society

— by Polydamas The March 23, 2007 blog post below by Marko Kloos, titled ” Why the Gun is Civilization” (http://bit.ly/1798Jv) is a short and very eloquent explanation why firearms are the mark of a civilized — not a barbaric…

More Wisdom From Hollywood on Firearms

— by Polydamas He may be a famous Hollywood movie star, but Bruce Willis has more common sense than most of his fellow movie stars put together. In a recent article by Ryan Pearson, an Associated Press Entertainment Writer, titled…