lfxangus's blog

Does anyone in this country actually think that the education system is working?  I bring this up because I spoke with a German student yesterday, and they are learning things in high school that we don't even begin to discuss until college.  Is that not a slap in the face for the United States?  Our educational system is based on the idea that the higher students score on standardized test  Read More »

Anyone else ever listen to talk radio shows?  Has anyone else ever called in on one?  Don't.  The host talks as though the show is about conversation, but the host never lets a person who disagrees have their say.  It really is frustrating.   Read More »

We arm Saddam with chemical and biological weapons knowing he's using them. We sell him the delivery systems so that he can use them on his own people. We even give him us reconaissance to help him maximize the number of Iranians he kills with chemical weapons.

Then we complain about the fact that he has chemical weapons and is using them on his people.  Read More »

Ignorant people assume that Muslims are, for the most part, violent by nature and that their book, the Qur’an, preaches for religious war.  In reality, the Qur’an is no more violent than the Old Testament of the Holy Bible.  Read More »

A fan of chess, I find it a perfect analogy for the War on Terror.  It explains perfectly why our current foreign policy in
Iraq will do nothing to help us in the War on Terror and what we need to be doing instead.  Read More »