The country of Kazakhstan is not very well known in the United States, nor in many other places of the world. Ask someone in the U.S. about Kazakhstan, and many people will respond with “Borat.” The movie “Borat” was not even shot in Kazakhstan, but in Romania, and the scenes in the movie are a [...]
Health Care Reform - Shame on America
The efforts at health care reform now working its way through the hallowed halls of our government is something that should deeply anger all Americans, left and right, Democrat or Republican or Independent. Nothing that comes from these current efforts will ever solve the agony and suffering of tens of millions of Americans who are [...]
Obama and War: America’s Dead-end Vision
To President Obama’s Nobel Prize speech, we have a mixed and strange response coming out of the country. From a Peace Prize recipient, we are so used to a lofty vision, a vision of achievable peace, that Obama’s words about the necessity of war to achieve peaceful ends falls like a dull thud upon [...]