Prosser WIns Reelection in WI

David Prosser, incumbent Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice and staunch, has won reelection bid against Joanna Kloppenberg, the favorite of disaffected public employee unions. Governor Stan Walker and the empowered Republicans favored the incumbent not just for his...

Richard Nixon: Unmasked, Unplugged, Unedited

Richard Nixon accomplished a lot during his Presidency, despite the scandal which plagued him and ultimately chased him out of office.He made overtures to China to normalize relations with a growing Communist power, which destabilized Communist Russia, the United...

Loneliness and Revolution Part II

There are ample examples in history demonstrating that people revolt not for being taxed heavily, not for being rudely treated, but because they are not allowed to speak out for themselves, they are not permitted to voice opposition against their leaders, let alone...

Loneliness and Revolution Part I

Political oppression is a terrible burden for the individual citizen.Not only does it marginalize the inherent worth of a human being, it deprives the person from seeking a meaningful recourse to end the suffering. Temporary alleviation is unsatisfactory because...

Mubarak Returns, The Army Turns, The Mummy Rises Again

The Mummy has awakened, rising from its long slumber.The Mummy is the old order, the order of oppression, the order of tyranny, the order which has pervaded the known world since the history of man.Who is the Mummy in post-Mubarak Egypt?Is it Hosni Mubarak himself,...

Bahrain: The Arab Spring turned Winter of Discontent

Sunni and Shi'a have rallied for the end of the Khalifah monarchy in Bahrain, another wave of protest in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution that originated in Tunisia and is spreading throughout the Middle East.Bahraini protests have failed at the onslaught of the...