— by Polydamas The New York Times could not wait for Superstorm Sandy to touch down on the eastern seaboard. It just could not wait until the fifty-some victims of the storm could be lain to their eternal rest. Instead,…
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Of Bread and Circuses
— by Polydamas At the second presidential debate, President Barack Obama gave lip service to the free enterprise system, proclaiming “I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world’s ever known.” President Obama’s professed…
Obama’s Misguided Priorities
by Polydamas A month ago, we at The Cassandra Times shared with you, our loyal readers, our analysis and conclusion that the attack on the American embassy in Libya was not a spontaneous eruption of the so-called “Arab Street” to…
What Venezuela’s Elections Can Teach Mitt Romney
by Achilles As a non-American who is not a born speaker of English, I can give from far away a less biased assessment of Americans. America with only about two and a half centuries of independence is still a young…
Vote Against the Bad Candidate, Not for the “Perfect” Candidate
by Polydamas Every four years, libertarians and other freedom lovers are caught in a conundrum. They must decide whether to vote ideologically for the “perfect” libertarian candidate of their choice or vote practically for the “lesser evil” candidate. The more…
Postmodern Really Means “Primitive”
—Odysseus The Wall Street Journal, on August 9, 2012, questioned whether or not this presidency is the first “postmodern” presidency. In the article, they went on to define “postmodernism” as essentially “the literary theory that rejects objective reality and insists…
American Embassy Stormed on 9/11: It’s Not Because of a Film
by Odysseus Here, at The Cassandra Times, we believe that it is our primary mission to give you, our readers, the analysis to make sense of the news of the day. Oftentimes the “traditional media” misinforms the public (or disinforms the…
The Age of Celebrity Will Soon Be Over
by Polydamas In February of 1968, the famous American pop artist Andy Warhol made a most insightful observation which secured him inclusion in the book Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Warhol said,”In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.”…
We Built the “America I Know”
— by Odysseus This is the inspirational speech delivered at the Republican National Convention by Mia Love, former mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, who is currently running for the Utah’s Fourth District United States House of Representatives: “Let me tell…
An Evolutionary Defense of Natural Law Theory
— by Odysseus In the Republican Convention and, generally, in the remarks now being made by GOP candidates or commentators, there is a welcome increase in the mention of the term “natural law” or, even more frequently, a reference to…