Archive for February, 2011
The hittistes, shabab atileen, NEETs, boomerangs,… – Just The Numbers, Mam
By Les Dunaway
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past weeks, you’re aware of events across the world involving massive crowds of people – one of whom has toppled the 30+ year dictatorship of Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak in Egypt.
What you may not know is as Paul Harvey said “The rest of the story”. These people in the streets are, largely, young and represent a global problem that must be addressed of the world economy is to be healthy. Read the rest of this entry »
Baker v. Obama
By J. Randolph Evans
What is the difference between former Georgia Attorney General Thurbert
Baker and President Barack Obama? This is not a trick question. The
answer actually signals a troublesome trend for democracy in America.
Both men were elected to perform very important jobs in the scheme of a
representative democracy. After all, democracies depend on faithful
public servants to fully perform their jobs to the best of their
abilities.
Thurbert Baker was elected by the people of Georgia three times as
Georgia Attorney General. As such, he understood that the
responsibilities and obligations of the office of Attorney General took
precedence over his own personal convictions and beliefs. Make no
mistake – there were times when there was a conflict between his job as
Attorney General and his personal beliefs. Read the rest of this entry »
The Faith of Our Founding Fathers…in us.
Much has been written over time about the personal faith of our Founding Fathers, their belief that the hand of Divine Providence was guiding the creation of this nation for a higher purpose.
What is less discussed is the faith they had in the people of this great and emerging nation, people who were looked upon as “common” and “rustic” by their European counterparts, but through hard work, sacrifice and self determination, would carve out of the wilderness a nation that would, in just a few short generations, stretch from sea to shining sea.
As we celebrate the 279th anniversary of the birth of George Washington, the Commander-in-Chief of a force that seemed, but for the protection of Divine Providence, always on the verge of complete and total annihilation, it is important to remember that those who fought for freedom at Bunker Hill, who escaped in the dead of night across the East River in New York and then crossed the Delaware River for victory in Trenton and bled the snow red at Valley Forge, did so, not for the moment in time they were living in, but for all time.
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My Tribute to Georgia Washington
Observations©
By Donald S. Conkey
Last week I paid my tribute to Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th president. Today I will pay tribute to Georgia Washington, America’s 1st president – and whose 279th birthday anniversary will be next Tuesday, February 22. He was born in 1732 in Virginia.
The accolades I could use for George Washington are far too many for my limited space so I will reflect only on the honor bestowed on this man for his service to his country by a grateful nation: his eight years as the Commanding General of a rag tag army that defeated the largest and best equipped army in the world – the British army – president of the Constitutional Convention, and his eight years as the first president of these United States.
George Washington, I believe, was raised up by God to lead America in its birth years by the God he strongly believed in, the God to whom he prayed often, and often with a pleading heart. There were times when he totally depended on his Creator as at Valley Forge, or at Philadelphia during those trying times when he was bringing divisive voices together in order to forge America’s document of freedom and liberty, its new Constitution, during a very hot summer in 1787 – with its nation of thirteen states on the verge of self-destruction.
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It’s About Egyptian Women
By J. Randolph Evans
The Egyptian military has suspended Egypt’s constitution, dissolved its parliament and assumed control of the country. Basically, the Egyptian Armed forces, consisting of approximately 450,000 armed personnel, now control the lives of 85 million Egyptians.
No one should kid themselves about the place in which Egyptians find themselves. This is not the U. S. military where 200 years of history has ingrained the subservient role of the military to elected civilian leaders. Instead, this is a military that supported and defended President Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian rule for almost three decades.
Undoubtedly, U. S. politicians take some comfort in the fact that the United States provides over one BILLION dollars of yearly military assistance to Egypt. In addition, the U. S. military has been integrally involved in the modernization of the Egyptian military. Yet, absent the recent protests, Egyptian military leaders remained content to support authoritarian rule.
