Voice of North America Articles

EXCERPT: I had take-out for dinner tonight.  While waiting for my food I heard this guy at the table next to me explaining to his buddies why drinking is healthy:
The American Indians hunted buffalo, but the buffalo populations never decreased.  This is because the Indians hunted only the weakest members of the herd.  As a result, the strongest buffalo were left to bred healthier buffalo with each passing generation.  The Indians knew that their hunting practice gave them...

EXCERPT: Sunday, June 8th Voice Show
This is the last episode of the Voice of Arizona Radio Show: Generation Two.  The main topic of discussion will be our failed energy policy, our clean energy future, and things we can do today to build that future.
With more than 300 sunny days each year in Phoenix, the topic of solar energy has special importance for those of us who live in the Valley of the Sun.  We could become the solar energy capital of the nation -- if not the world  --...

EXCERPT: Someone should tell President Bush that "cyclone" is just another name for He seems oblivious to the stunning irony of sending First Lady Laura "Pickles" Bush out to chastise Myanmar for 1) not warning the Burmese people of the impending danger from Cyclone Nargis days prior to landfall, and 2) accusing the ruling junta of appearing tone deaf in failing to acknowledge the true scope of the tragedy.  
Now as Myanmar proudly rejects most offers of foreign aid...

EXCERPT: Yesterday I received this email from Democrats.com:
On Thursday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi will force the House to approve $163 billion more of our tax dollars  for the occupation of Iraq - nearly $100 billion for 2008 plus nearly $70 billion more for 2009. We are outraged. This Democratic Congress was elected to end the occupation, not fund it forever.
At first blush, I was outraged too.  Why must we constantly concede to our lame-duck President and the congressional...

EXCERPT: Last week, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino did something remarkable.  She committed the unthinkable occupational sin of actually speaking the truth when she informed the White House Press corps that gasoline prices were "entirely too high, but I think it would be disingenuous and unfortunate for American consumers for them to be led to believe that there is a short-term fix."
And yet, that is exactly what Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton are attempting to do...

EXCERPT: There comes a time when people have to say, “Enough is enough.”  Eventually the political outrages – one after another -- will push men to their limit, and they will in turn react to take back what is theirs by right.  This is one of those times, and the rest of the world deserves to know the story, and what brought us to this point.
No man is better than another.  Every man has fundamental rights that no one --and no government -- can take away. ...

EXCERPT: Nicolas Kristof of the New York Times wrote the following thought-provoking excerpt in his March 30 op-ed piece.  You can find the original here:
 

Then there’s this embarrassing fact about the United States in the 21st century: Americans are as likely to believe in flying saucers as in evolution. Depending on how the questions are asked, roughly 30 to 40 percent of Americans believe in each. A 34-nation study found Americans less likely to believe in evolution than...

EXCERPT: Is anyone watching the HBO miniseries John Adams?  Historical pieces like this are always fascinating, even if only to make tangible the oftentimes turgid and dry history found in the pages of high school textbooks.  Based on the biography of same title by of David McCullough, the miniseries stars Paul Giamatti as John Adams and Laura Linney as his wife, Abigail Adams.  Perhaps as a miscarriage of history, more Americans seem to be familiar with Abigail Adams as the...

EXCERPT: Bob Toad is correct in his statement that voting in a party primary is not a right.  The Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, etc; they are by definition "parties," not mini-democracies.  They are private clubs that have formed to pull-together the resources of their members to put forward the man (or woman) of their choice to run in the general election.  There is nothing in the Constitution that constrains them to...

EXCERPT: Well, like it or not, our choice for POTUS has narrowed to two contenders on each side.
In the blue corner, we have the tag team dynamic duo of Ice Queen Clinton and Change Man Obama, determined to inflict "right-eous" damage with a folding chair.
In the red corner, we have the fearsome twosome of Soul Man "Bling Bling" Romney and Grumpy Gramps McCain, ready to wipe the mat with the opponent "left" standing.
There are only four permutations (do the math),...