Drapetomania: A Disease Called Freedom
According to Dr. Cartwright, the disease of drapetomania -- peculiar to Blacks -- justified the enslavement as a therapeutic necessity for the slaves and as a medical and moral necessity…
The Palestine Papers
The papers show Israel was intransigent in public and intransigent in private. This raises the question as to why Israel would concede anything when the Palestinians were willing to concede…
Why Did Baby Doc Duvalier Return to Haiti?
In 1991, five years after Baby Doc fled, Haitians elected a priest, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who resisted the IMF's austerity dictates. Within months, the military, with a wink and a nod…
Did Sarah Palin Play a Role
in Giffords Assassination Attempt?
We have all no doubt heard that gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, 22, shot Congresswoman Giffords as she met with constituents outside a grocery store, killing Arizona's chief federal judge John…
Time To Re-examine Proposition 13
Proposition 13 unfairly treats commercial property like residential property. In San Francisco, for example, according to Assessor Phil Ting, prior to Proposition 13, commercial property owners paid 59 percent of…
Facebook: A Note of Caution
Should Facebook users be worried about personal privacy? Consider that early this year, Facebook announced that it was changing its privacy settings in order to make more user information public.…
Palestinian Statehood to be Decided by UN?
The last thing Israel wants is for the issue to end up in the UN. But why not the UN? Consider that at the creation of Israel in 1947, the…