Beware Big Brother’s Solutions — by Polydamas I completely concur in the cogent analysis by Odysseus and in the rational solution he proposes in “It’s Not About Guns or Insanity; It’s About Publicity”. However, I want to address the wrong…
It’s Not About Guns or Insanity; It’s About Publicity
—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…
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…