E Pluribus Nonnulus (out of many, some)
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Memoirs from a student in America's poorest city.
Just to note on some more information that came out today involving Blackwater, the premise of which I mistakingly left out of my previous post:
While most Americans have still perhaps not heard of or have no clear understanding of Blackwater USA, the mercenary firm did garner some macabre notoriety in 2004 during a tragic incident in Falluja. Read More »
While most Americans have still perhaps not heard of or have no clear understanding of Blackwater USA, the mercenary firm did garner some macabre notoriety in 2004 during a tragic incident in Falluja. Read More »
In May 2005, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld presented his plan to re-align the United States military in order to change the military to handle �the new demands of war against extremists and other evolving 21st century challenges.�
Rumsfeldâ��s actions were intended to restructure the Pentagon to fight the War on Terror, which began with the atrocious attacks of September 11, 2001. Read More »
Rumsfeldâ��s actions were intended to restructure the Pentagon to fight the War on Terror, which began with the atrocious attacks of September 11, 2001. Read More »
Last Wednesday, in his speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, President Bush made parallels between the current War in Iraq and the Vietnam War. Unfortunately, Bush was not clearly defining the similarities between the two wars. Rather, he was using the results of the American withdrawal from Vietnam to reiterate the necessity of keeping American troops in Iraq "until the job is done." Read More »
One video has generated almost unmatched interest and views on You Tube in the last few weeks. And no, it does not involve a dog riding a skateboard or a skateboarding lacerating his scrotum.
Rather, this video shows an interview that Vice President Dick Cheney gave to C-SPAN in 1994 to discuss the aftermath and the lingering questions of the Persian Gulf War, during which Cheney was President George Herbert Walker Bush's Secretary of Defense. In the interview, Cheney responds to the question "Do you think the U.S., or U.N. forces, should have moved into Baghdad?" with the following retort: Read More »
Rather, this video shows an interview that Vice President Dick Cheney gave to C-SPAN in 1994 to discuss the aftermath and the lingering questions of the Persian Gulf War, during which Cheney was President George Herbert Walker Bush's Secretary of Defense. In the interview, Cheney responds to the question "Do you think the U.S., or U.N. forces, should have moved into Baghdad?" with the following retort: Read More »
I know this argument is waaay out of date, but I hadn't written anything for two months until yesterday, and this has been irking me greatly for that whole time span.
So, I was reading my hometown paper, The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer on Sunday, May 20th, when I came across an interesting little column. I can't remember the author - maybe The New York Times' David Brooks? - but the content was what really mattered. It discussed a piece of legislation that had just passed through the House - HR 1585 - which was an appropriations measure for the Department of Defense. (Read the story from The Army Times here).
Read More »So I was clicking around on the political pages and blogs when I ran across this piece on the CNN Political Ticker here:
"President Bush accused Democratic lawmakers on Saturday of being unable to live up to their duties, citing Congress’ inability to pass legislation to fund the federal government.
Read More »So, I know that I haven't written a new post for this blog in almost 2 months, but whatever. It's not like anyone actually reads this thing anyway. I already know what goes on inside my head. I don't need the Internet to remind me. But here we go again, regardless. Read More »
This is a column that I wrote for our campus newspaper. Luckily, instead of running this, the editor chose to run the resident self-professed Communist's column on the wonders of Communist North Korea. Oh well.
December 11, 2006 â�" A man lay, gunned down by an unknown assailant, on the corner of Addison Road and St. Clair Avenue on Clevelandâ��s East Side. In his right hand, he clutched three dollars â�" bus fare for his trip home to the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood across town. Read More »
December 11, 2006 â�" A man lay, gunned down by an unknown assailant, on the corner of Addison Road and St. Clair Avenue on Clevelandâ��s East Side. In his right hand, he clutched three dollars â�" bus fare for his trip home to the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood across town. Read More »
An article by Ron Hutcheson of the McClatchy-Tribune news service appeared in The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer today. The article, which is in the Forum section of the paper, hits you over the head with it's headline - $500 billion appears in huge, red letters in the middle of the page. The article makes its message clear - with the estimated $124 billion price tag of the war funding bill looming large, the total direct cost of the War in Iraq is about to reach a half-trillion dollars. If one takes into account the estimated costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for 2008, the total costs to date of those wars will reach $719 billion. That makes these wars, the two major fronts in the Global War on Terror, the second most expensive conflict in American history. By the time Bush leaves office (624 days and counting), the only war to outpace the War on Terror will be World War II. Granted, WWII cost $5.4 trillion, but I guess Bush is right to compare Iraq to WWII in at least one regard. (read the whole article here). Read More »
Senator HIllary Clinton made her first official stop in Cleveland during her run for the White House on Saturday afternoon. She rolled into town following events in Baton Rouge and a speech at Wilberforce College in Dayton.
The junior Senator was here to speak about the state of education in America today. She stressed its importance, saying that "there isn't anything more important than education." Hillary was invited by Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH), the representative of Ohio's 11th Congressional District and the co-chair of Clinton's national campaign. Also in attendance was first-year Cleveland Municipal School District CEO Dr. Eugene Sanders, who spoke of the challenges that we face here in the America's poorest city and stated that the "Cleveland schools are at a crossroads." (quotes courtesy of The Plain Dealer; read article here). Read More »
The junior Senator was here to speak about the state of education in America today. She stressed its importance, saying that "there isn't anything more important than education." Hillary was invited by Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH), the representative of Ohio's 11th Congressional District and the co-chair of Clinton's national campaign. Also in attendance was first-year Cleveland Municipal School District CEO Dr. Eugene Sanders, who spoke of the challenges that we face here in the America's poorest city and stated that the "Cleveland schools are at a crossroads." (quotes courtesy of The Plain Dealer; read article here). Read More »
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Hillary Clinton started the month of April as the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic Presidential nomination. Now, granted, the first primary won't happen until the Iowa Caucus on January 18th (256 days from now; if I can figure out some more html, I will add a countdown to the blog), but pundits continued to insist that if Obama, Edwards, or someone else didn't do something fast, she might pull away like Secretariat. Well, Hillary may bear a striking resemblance to the famous Triple-Crown winner, but she is not pulling away by any means. Read More »
May 1 - Yes, that's right. Today is the fourth birthday of the "Mission Accomplished" banner. In other words, four years ago today, President Bush descended onto the USS Abraham Lincoln wearing his flight suit, then delivered his speech, in which he said "In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." This marked the official end to major combat operations. Read More »
So the first debate of the 2008 Presidential season has come and gone with little fanfare. The Democrats were in the limelight last night on MSNBC. They were at South Carolina State for the first debate to ever take place at a historically black college. Overall, it was uneventful and rather boring. The major candidates were calm and calculated, with Hillary and Barack playing it safe and the second-tier candidates doing little to help their chances.
Here are my thoughts and grades (on a scale of 1-10) for each candidate's performance: Read More »
Here are my thoughts and grades (on a scale of 1-10) for each candidate's performance: Read More »
So Saturday was Earth Day, the one day a year on which the Earth asks for a little recognition. It deserves it; it's been a good planet, way better than Uranus. NASA reports that they found a planet with a similar climate and environment to Earth about 20 light years away. They call it Gliese 581c, because it's the third planet from the dwarf star Gliese, but Gliese 581c just doesn't roll off the tongue the same as "Earth" does. Anyways.
Barack Obama celebrated Earth Day by holding a huge event on the campus of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa (those Iowans like that word). Read More »
Barack Obama celebrated Earth Day by holding a huge event on the campus of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa (those Iowans like that word). Read More »
This is the first time I have written a formal blog entry. I guess I'm finally cool.
So, in terms of the title of my blog, "e pluribus nonnullus," it's Latin for "out of many, some." I guess it's a little pun on the US's time-tested phrase e pluribus unum. You can take it however you want; I didn't put too much thought into its meaning. But I knew that four years of high school Latin would finally pay off.
But on to the content. Last week, as you all know, we witnessed the worst school shooting in American history. Thirty-two Virginia Tech students and faculty members were killed by Seung-Hui Cho, a 23-year old South Korean student. Read More »
So, in terms of the title of my blog, "e pluribus nonnullus," it's Latin for "out of many, some." I guess it's a little pun on the US's time-tested phrase e pluribus unum. You can take it however you want; I didn't put too much thought into its meaning. But I knew that four years of high school Latin would finally pay off.
But on to the content. Last week, as you all know, we witnessed the worst school shooting in American history. Thirty-two Virginia Tech students and faculty members were killed by Seung-Hui Cho, a 23-year old South Korean student. Read More »
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