Manns Medium

Turn on your television to any national news channel and all you may hear is this argument about the need for security pitted against the desire for privacy or the roles of journalist versus the attention span of the public.   Each argument has its merits and each has its flaws but the one thing that each of the warring factions seem to ignore is that nether has to suffer complete defeat and a compromise is well within reach.   Stop with all of your “the world is ending” drama, step back and think and be amazed at how easily all these issues can be resolved. Case in point, first we must all be willing to re-define the definitions of these words that we wreckfully toss about as if we are auditioning from some bumper sticker.   We must look to our past not to repeat but to learn from.   With all of the intelligence being wasted on just chasing our tails, going around in circles and never solving anything, surely that intelligence could be used to once again solv...

I was reminded of why I have a very hard time listening to The Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC when it came to his support of the treatment of Private Bradley Manning.   I have a hard time because there seems to be no one on his show who can intelligently disagree with him and get their points across. I expect a cable news agency to present both sides equally but I don’t see that happening on this show. The thing that really got me boiling was the implication that the reason most Democrats are not questioning President Obama is because he is a black man in the White House.   Of all of the ignorant statements to make this is one of the worst.   Why, because Mr. Ratigan assumes that the public is so afraid of race that we will sit idly by and allow this president to do whatever he wants because questioning him makes us appear racist.   It’s as if we have chosen to ignore our responsibility to keep his feet to the fire and help him govern.   He is so very wrong. What...