http://stengazette.org/wordpress Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:25:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Another Halloween is over, so we can get back to important things like getting ready for Christmas. If we're lucky, there will be only one more interruption, namely that quaint US American holiday "Thanksgiving" when we get together as families, pretend we don't hate each other, and participate in ... http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2007/11/18/boo-bad-form-on-trick-or-treat-street/ The January 13th airstrike by the CIA against a village in Pakistan is old news now. The target was al-Quaida second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, but it is still unclear if he was among the 17 people killed in the attack. According to published reports, the Hellfire missile attack was ... http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2006/02/05/cia-air-strike-in-pakistan/ By Richard J. Schneider With a few exceptions, the Democratic Party should welcome in its newest member: President George W. Bush. The exceptions include defending the legality of his domestic eavesdropping program, making his tax cuts permanent, and nonsensical approaches to health care. For those of you wondering about ... http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2006/02/01/democratic-party%e2%80%99s-newest-member-george-w-bush/ Heartache in the White House. The Administration's secret weapon, the National Security Agency, has been dragged out of the closet and exposed to daylight. The White House is in mourning, because the President is being prevented from doing his job. How can we expect Mr. Bush to ... http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2006/01/27/big-brother-is-watching-you/ Minimum wage laws are complex, with Federal and State rates often in conflict. It's generally agreed, however, that the Federal minimum wage is not enough to live on. The math is pretty simple-- minimum wage for a 40 hour work week amounts to an annual gross income of just ... http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2005/12/31/simple-solutions-minimum-wage-reform/ We take it for granted that a compass needle will point to the North, but in fact the Earth's magnetic field has reversed its polarity many times and some think we are due for a reversal any day now. The fundamental paradigms that underlie the structure of a culture ... http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2005/11/06/paradigm-reversal/ We said we were done talking about the referenda and we are, for the most part, but the debate over C & D gives us a really great opportunity to talk about propaganda, which is after all one of our core themes. One of the more prominent terms in ... http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2005/10/22/fool-us-once/ Off-year elections in Colorado can be conducted by mail ballot, and the county electoral offices began sending out the ballots on Friday. A majority of mail ballots will be returned within a week of receipt, so further campaigning is is increasingly irrelevant as we approach Election Day. There ... http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2005/10/09/final-election-comments/ In a recent syndicated column, "shrill lefty" Molly Ivins takes the Republican administration to task for a long series of what she calls Petulant Pique (PP) appointments. These are "Bush appointees named during the administration's frequent fits of Petulant Pique...in the immortal childhood spirit of "nanny-nanny boo-boo, I'll ... http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2005/09/29/pique-appointments/ On November 1st Colorado voters will be asked to decide Referendum C and associated or conditional Referendum D, which have generated more debate in print and on the air than any other referendum in recent memory. Our recommendation? Vote no on both. Our natural inclination is to vote ... http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2005/09/26/colorado-referenda-c-d/