Let's start with a passage from Alan Dershowitz's latest book, "The Case for Israel," now slithering into the upper tier of Amazon.com's sales charts. On page 213, we meet Dershowitz, occupant of the Felix Frankfurter (FF) chair at Harvard Law School, happily walloping a French prof called Faurisson, charged by the FF prof from Harvard U as being a fraud and a Holocaust denier: "There was no extensive historical research. Instead there was the fraudulent manufacturing of false antihistory. It was the kind of deception for which professors are rightly fired -- not because their views are controversial, but because they are violating the most basic canons of historical scholarship."

            Let me now usher into the narrative an important member of the cast: "From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine," a 601-page book by Joan Peters, published in 1984. Peter's polemical work strove to buttress the old Zionist thesis that the land of Israel had been "a land without people, awaiting a people without land." Peters' book was soon discredited as a charnel house of disingenuous

Arnold Schwarzenegger could ensure another White House win for George W. Bush.

Especially now that the courts say it's ok for large numbers of citizens to have their votes not counted---votes that, in another tight election or two, could give Arnold and Bush final control of California and the nation.

Anyone who thinks that the White House and Karl Rove are not behind the Schwarzenegger assault is not paying attention.

The Republican juggernaut now controls the governorships of New York, Texas and Florida. With California they'd have the state houses of America's four biggest states, plus the White House, Congress, the Judiciary and the media. Is there another word for one party rule?

In 2000, Gov. Jeb Bush guaranteed his brother's grab of the White House. There were many twists and turns, but the core of the coup came with the systematic removal of more than 50,000 "convicted felons"---people of color and other suspected Democrats---from Florida's voting lists. Computer voting machine manipulations may have cost Al Gore thousands more votes with a few keystrokes.

What questionable military program did both former President Clinton and current resident President W. Bush support wholeheartedly?  The National Missile Defense (NMD) program.   This program is a highly suspicious use of our tax dollars and should be immediately scrapped. The technology will continue to be extremely expensive to produce and may never work, and allegations of scientific dishonesty in this program have been made and merit close examination.  Finally, this project is not worth its social and monetary costs.    Any Republican (or Democrat, even) member of Congress who is actually not a hypocrite should be screaming bloody murder over the taxes being siphoned down the drain by this program.

The recent New York Times article, “M.I.T. Studies Accusations of Lies and Cover-Up of Flaws in Antimissile system, (Jan. 2, 2003)” should not have been unexpected.  For several years, the more liberal press has sent out murmurs warning of fraud in the antimissile program, part of the NMD.  The scientist making the charges noted in the Times, Dr. Theodore Postol, is a tenured professor of security studies at M.I.T.

In the end of the 19th Century  capatin Alfred Dreyfuss, the Jewish Employee of the French General Staff was arrested and accused of espionage and treason. It took twenty years to exonerate him and  restore him in his rights. He owed his life and honor to the International Community and especially to Emile Zola, the French writer, who sparkled the sympathy to Dreyfuss through his pamphlet J'accuse ( I accuse), where he tore to pieces the original government accusations. Now  Emile Zola is buried in the Honorable Patheon of the greatest French People and the portrait of Alfred Dreufus is right on the  wall facing  his tomb.  

   In the Y2003 the Captain of the US Army and Moslem Chaplain  Mr Yee is arrested  and accused of the same thing. His alleged guilt- posession of the secret documents, the list of the detainees' names and the names of the interrogators,  ergo, the names of the  tortured and the names of the torturers.  If this is treason then we all are accomplices of  the crime.  It is well known  all around the world that the concentration camp  on the foreign soil  we have erected and maintained is an abomination.  We made ourselves a disgrace in th eyes of the

Fall is hunting season, and in central Ohio certain manly men are salivating over “controlling the deer population,” i.e., viciously murdering helpless, non-threatening Bambis. Call me a wuss, but hiding in the forest, spying an innocent fawn or buck, using a bullet or arrow to kill it without a fight and bragging later seems unsportsmanlike and cowardly to me. But hey, we live in a country that thought our military bombing Iraq with shock and awe was a “war.”

The only awe I feel is the beauty of the forest and the quiet, gentle creatures who live in harmony within it. If you ask me, it’s the homo sapiens species that needs controlled -- sprawling suburbs, paving concrete and asphalt, clear cutting, polluting, corrupting nature.

I found some interesting arguments against hunting on the Internet (yes, I know how to surf the web, though the hooves are a bit wide for the keys). The following is a good answer to the question:

Doesn’t hunting control wildlife populations that would otherwise get out of hand?