—by Odysseus As the news trickled out overnight about the mass killing in Colorado, the publicity engines started up. The gun control fanatics started crafting their tweets and sound bytes while the National Rifle Association and the millions of law-abiding…
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President Obama’s Bastille Day Speech and the Olympics
President Obama’s Bastille Day Speech and the Olympics — by Polydamas On July 14, 2012, on the 223rd anniversary of Bastille Day, the start of the French Revolution, American President Barack Obama gave a very insightful speech (http://bit.ly/SsI24B ) to…
The Global Warming Mirage
The Global Warming Mirage — by Polydamas In one of the previous posts here at The Cassandra Times, titled “The Prostitution of Science in the Service of Politics”, we pointed out how science ceased to be an objective and dispassionate…
The Great Experiment is Nearly Over
—by Odysseus Today, the second to last line of defense for the Republic collapsed. This regiment has never had the strongest reputation for bravery nor has it enjoyed a storied history of holding the line against the growth of…
The Prostitution of Science in the Service of Politics
The Prostitution of Science in the Service of Politics — by Polydamas In 1957, Ayn Rand wrote her most influential novel “Atlas Shrugged”. One of the threads of her novel concerns the misuse of science to serve a social and political…
The Untold Story of the Iraq War
—by Odysseus In the many words, articles, and books written about the invasion of Iraq, this author does not believe that the complete overview has been either explained or perhaps exposed. A great many of the voices that were opposed…
The Unspoken Insanity in the Debate About Gay Marriage
The Unspoken Insanity in the Debate About Gay Marriage — by Polydamas Despite what would appear, on a superficial level, to be two diametrically-opposite world views, both proponents and opponents of gay marriage share an unspoken central axiom. This axiom…
Government Spending Cannot Sustain an Economy
—by Odysseus There are three primary reasons why government spending cannot sustain a recovery. 1) Governments are badly suited to prioritize assistance to the segments of an economy that will cause growth. 2) The source of government funds is a…
On Barcodes and The Rise of The Surveillance Society
On Barcodes and the Rise of the Surveillance Society — by Polydamas In her May 22, 2012 BBC column, titled “Barcode Everyone At Birth”, (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120522-barcode-everyone-at-birth?selectorSection=section), notable science fiction and fantasy author Elizabeth Moon proposed the following: “If I were empress…
The Disunited States of America
The Disunited States of America — by Polydamas Nearly forty-nine years ago, on August 28, 1963, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. his masterpiece “I Have a Dream” speech. Two…