America Jones

Informed, rational debate is a cornerstone of American ideology. The American constitutional republic is a clear implementation of European...

A: We killed Osama bin Laden. B: Who? A: Osama bin Laden. B: ? A: The Al Qaeda guy?  911? B: I stopped keeping track of the bastards after w...

The broadcast media's portrait of the 2006 elections as a referendum on the Iraq War has turned out to be not only meaningless, but als...

In the current healthcare reform debate, one statistic frequently cited by politicians and pundits indicates that Americans spend between 1...

These are difficult times and many of our leaders have a difficult job ahead of them. While Congress is busy summoning the proper demons req...

A recent article on Wired sparked a debate in the online comments section about the relative merits of evolution and popular intelligent de...

The reporting around the horrific events at Northwestern Illinois University has, as in past school shootings, focused on the grief of fami...

Often, when I enter a bar or a club to which I haven't previously been, I count the number of television screens. I frequently find the ...

There seems to be a lot of indifference in the United States regarding domestic surveillance. Perhaps this indifference is a result of a cit...

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In response to Great Britain's formal request that the United States release five British residents from the Guantanamo Bay detention fa...

Dear Sen. X, With all respect, I appreciate your sincere desire to serve the Nation and our fine State of residence, but I have serious doub...

How might covert interests acting as a parasite within an authoritarian regime -- with access to trillions of military research dollars a...

Perhaps the days of the " Googlebomb " are drawing to a close. MySpace has begun to re-code outbound links from user pages in an e...

ad oculos: intonuere poli, et crebris micat ignibus aether. nihil obstat.

I recently came across some lumbering bit of bureaucratese called "Radiation Belt Remediation." Previously, I had only heard the w...