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http://dissentators.blogspot.com
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Life is too important to be taken seriously - Oscar Wilde
About Me:
A 24 year old in the midst of a year that began in Los Angeles with a cross-country drive to Boston, a flight to Shanghai, and six months in South Africa before I head back home for more school.
Issues I Care About:
Climate Change, Poverty, Developing Nations, Presidential Elections, Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy

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Obama and McCain: What Do Their Commencement Speeches Reveal?

As we are just about through with university commencement ceremonies for 2008, I thought I'd see what the candidates said to graduating students. Unfortunately, neither Clinton nor McCain gave commencement speeches this year. But that won't deter us. I will merely provide the speeches and do my best to remain neutral. I am more curious to know what other people think. Does the message delivered to a group of young Americans, about to enter and effect the world, reveal something of the… Continue

Posted on June 13, 2008 at 2:39am — 1 Comment

Satire: Heat Waves, The Middle East, and Our Discontents

As I ran errands around New York City yesterday, plodding from store to store in temperatures reaching 100 degrees -- my shoes sticking to the bubbling tar, the sweat marks on my shirt expanding like a supervirus in a petri dish -- I began to notice a correlation between the temperature in each store and the disposition of the people working behind each counter. And possibly, I discovered a solution to strife in the Middle East.



I visited three stores, attempting my usual amiable… Continue

Posted on June 10, 2008 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

It Looks Official: Senator Obama is the Democratic Presumptive Nominee

It won't be long now until both Clinton's and Obama's speeches from Tuesday night will go viral and the front pages of morning papers will proclaim Senator Obama his Party's presumptive nominee, as the New York Times has already posted on their website. And what a long primary it has been. While the voting may have begun in early January, it's been over a year since these candidates… Continue

Posted on June 3, 2008 at 11:36pm

Will Anything Curb Rising Gas Prices?

Congress passed a bill recently urging President Bush to halt purchases into the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and Bush has complied after prior reluctance. The real issue, however, is not the differing opinions of Congress and the President, but if this strategy will have any effect whatsoever. The Strategic Petroleum… Continue

Posted on May 28, 2008 at 4:12am

Clean Energy Ads From Some Less Than Clean Sources

If you've sat through the advertisements on any news program recently, you may have noticed that many have had to do with new "cleaner" technologies, such as natural gas, clean coal, etc. Some have come by way of Al Gore's newest

"We Campaign", but many were sponsored by some surprising sources -- Shell, ConocoPhilips, and Exxon Mobile -- begging a questions into the legitimacy of such advertising. I do not doubt that the large energy companies devote plenty of research dollars to… Continue

Posted on April 9, 2008 at 12:39am

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Why Does the Reverend Wright Scandal Matter?
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At first I assumed that the nearly universal coverage of Reverend Wright's provocative statements was due to the fact that cable news had nothing to talk about with 7 weeks to go until the…Continue

Tags: presidential election, reverend wright, barack obama

Started this debate. Last reply by CPD May 12, 2008.

 

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