Comments on: Around The Sphere April 7, 2007 (UPDATED)

By: Richard Horton

Richard Horton — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:45:10 +0000

The controversy at MSU doesn’t have anything to do with gay foster parents, it has to do with coercion and the denial of academic freedoms so severe that an outside academic panel asked to investigate came back with a report so scathing that they actually put forward disbanding the department as a logical solution.

You little headline on this story misses the boat (and the ocean.)

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:27:50 +0000

The current hysteria is a symptom of displacement, a psychological mechanism that allows one to ignore real threats like Islamic terrorism, in order to focus on imaginary phantasms like Anthropogenic Global Warming. Part of the left's denial of reality, a symptom of a larger mass psychosis infecting much of the American electorate.

By: Jim Satterfield

Jim Satterfield — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:32:42 +0000

The people who defend Wal-Mart because of what it does bring to many of the rural areas it serves miss the fact that it is not simply urban jobs that Wal-Mart’s philosophy can eliminate. How many of our country’s remaining factory jobs are in small towns in rural areas? More than a few.

Given that Wal-Mart puts immense amounts of pressure on their vendors to cut costs so much that very often the only way is to ship their manufacturing jobs to China I think there’s a huge negative there. Has anyone else read of how the CEO of Snapper went to Bentonville to tell Wal-Mart that no, he wasn’t going to sell his company’s products in their stores any longer because he just wasn’t going to follow that death spiral where his company’s interests and profits would be subsumed to Wal-Mart’s? He valued the company’s reputation for quality more than sales to Wal-Mart. He worked on improving their existing network of vendors and the company is still successful and still making quality products in the U.S., unlike Rubbermaid which bought into the market share mystique of Wal-Mart.

By: Rudi

Rudi — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:03:50 +0000

We are also give physical and material support to MEK , which is on our own terrorist list.

U.S. Protects Terror Group

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 6 (UPI) — The U.S. military in Iraq routinely protects a group that is classified as a terrorist organization and that the Iraqi government wants to leave.

CNN reported that the Iran opposition group Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, is a source of intelligence on Iran.

By: Hillary Clinton ‘08 » Around The Sphere April 7, 2007

Hillary Clinton ‘08 » Around The Sphere April 7, 2007 — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:57:29 +0000

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