Analysis Submissions

Analysis

• Did the Supreme Court Make a Healthy Decision?
  

  As informed voters know, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (known less formally as “The Affordable Care Act” and informally as “Obamacare”) will require citizens to pay a penalty for not having health care insurance. What many voters do not know, informed or otherwise, is that a recent but often overlooked and misunderstood court case deserves far more attention than it has been receiving during this election season because Read more →

• Alexander Hamilton’s Economic Strategy: Tax and Borrow
  

  The Founding Father most responsible for authoring our original economic policies and establishing our central banking system thought federal taxation was not meant to be exempted, cut, lowered or salvaged. To the contrary, Alexander Hamilton believed federal taxation should increase with increased income. Working-class Americans were supposed to pay taxes within their means, and wealthy Americans were supposed to pay higher taxes. “Means” meant something used for survival. Anything additional Read more →

• The Dalai Lama on Religion’s Place in the World: Your Thoughts?
  

  Following is a quote from the Dalai Lama, taken from his Facebook website. Please share your thoughts on this in the “Comment on This Post” section: “All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I am increasingly convinced Read more →

• A High School Laboratory in Space
  

  Today, YouTube ran a live streaming video concerning their Space Lab project. This project pooled the resources of several government agencies and international corporations to foster interest in space travel for the younger generations. YouTube sponsored the Space Lab contest, asking young minds to create a science experiment that will be taken to the International Space Station. Two contestants were chosen as winners in March: Amr Mohamed is an Egyptian teen Read more →

• Angry Egyptians, Corporate Media, and the All-Spin Zone
  

  At what point does a corrected “mistake” by a respected news source spin a story in another direction? The New York Times has come under fire for “scrubbing” an online article that contained negative criticism of presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s reaction to the anger and violence in Egypt over an unflattering film of Mohammad. Some of that scrubbing included criticism by some of Romney’s own advisers. The explanations offered by Read more →

• Romney’s Misadventures
  

  Gaffes and goofs are not only part of the political arena, they serve as humorous anecdotes after the politician has left office and retired from public life. One Ronald Reagan faux pas during the height of the Cold War didn’t win him any friends at the time, but it is with fondness that the public looks back and remembers when he jokingly announced during a sound check, “My fellow Americans, Read more →

• Joe Biden Receiving Special Oversight This Election Season
  

  It was announced Thursday that The Richard Nixon Office of Correct Decorum (RNOCD, or OCD for short) will be traveling with Vice President Joe Biden for the remainder of the 2012 Presidential campaign. This is the first time the OCD has been assigned to a Vice President, whose scope of responsibility includes absolutely nothing that is actually newsworthy. At a press conference on Thursday, President Obama announced the move. While stopping Read more →

• Iran Should Do Better
  

  A few weeks ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to the U.N. General Assembly. Several nations left during his predictably bizarre ramblings. As usual, Israel did not attend. The Iranian leader’s message reaffirmed his nation’s political stance and its desire to obtain enriched uranium. He once again denied Israel’s legitimacy, saying the “Zionist” state “has no roots there in history.” He claimed that Israel is “at a dead end” and Read more →

• The Environment Still Needs Attention in This Election
  

  As the race for the White House moves into the final stretch, the faltering U.S. economy is the topic as unemployment continues to hover at uncomfortably high levels throughout the country, effectively pushing other seemingly less important issues to the side. Environmental issues remain especially marginalized for a number of reasons. Still, even though environmental innovations do not always generate immediate revenue or directly create jobs, they deserve attention. Fixing the Read more →

• Who emails anymore? TEXT ME!
  

  On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell’s iconic imperative “Mr. Watson-come here-I want to see you” became the first words transmitted via telephone. With no fanfare, that simple command ushered in a change that would, in a relatively short time, affect every person on the globe. A similar event would occur on December 10, 1992, when an engineer with the telecommunication firm Seam would send a message from his computer Read more →