Winds of Change
- January/February 2002
- January 1, 2002
Americans doubting the truth of Tocqueville’s great paradox of liberal democracy, that equality will overwhelm liberty once a state attempts to impose its version of perfect equality for all, need only look a few miles north to Canada. An experiment to test that proposition has been in progress here since 1982, when the Canadian Charter
READ MOREJim Raines (a pseudonym) was hired as a service writer by a major auto dealership in a large Southwestern city. A service writer is the guy who prepares the service order on your car when you take it to the dealer. Jim was scheduled to work Monday through Friday, plus one Saturday a month. He
READ MOREPassed by the French Parliament, and signed into law in June 2001, the “To reinforce the prevention and repression of groups of a sectarian nature” aims to restrict the free expression, growth, and development of religious groups. Amazingly, many of those targeted are from mainstream religious beliefs, which flourish in the United States under the
READ MOREFor a country to move from general tolerance to extreme intolerance in just a few short years speaks to the power of religion and its ready exploitation by those seeking political authority and control. The fuel is human competition. Where there is enough food, land, water, and other resources, the need to fight other communities
READ MOREHe remembers the screaming KC-135s and C-5s; the roars, the lights, the vibrating windowpanes, the low buzz in his ears. It ignited his mind with the images and fantasies that only children can create. From those early days living near the Robert Gray Army Airfield in Texas, Allen Davis had one goal: to be a
READ MOREI saw one of those shadowy figures of evil on television a few weeks ago. A false and anti-Messiah figure named Osama bin Laden reached out from the desert of Afghanistan to offer a few more vague threats. And then he said something with the ring of profundity. “The winds of change are blowing,” he
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