If you missed the debate on Thursday, be sure to download it for free from the iTunes Music Store (thanks to Audible.com and C-SPAN). Give it a listen so you’ll have a [slightly] better idea of what each candidate stands for in the foreign policy arena.
The first presidential debate of the 2004 election season (excluding primary debates) will occur tonight at 9:00 Eastern time in Coral Gables, Florida.
The debate, between frontrunners George W. Bush (R) and John Kerry (D), will focus on foreign policy issues.
I am tired of this story.
Terri Schiavo has been in a persistent vegetative state for fourteen years. She is not going to wake up and be okay again. Since she apparently left no living will, her husband—as legal authority on the matter—has the right to decide that medical science cannot help her, and he has the right to demand that her feeding tube be removed.
I can only say, duh. The cost of higher education in this country is unreasonable, and it’s getting worse all the time. It’s a real shame when you consider that a college education has never been more important than it is today.I don’t know what the best way to fix this is. First and foremost, we need to improve the pre-college public education. If a high school diploma actually counted for anything, perhaps college wouldn’t be as necessary as it has become.
But our workforce does, indeed, need to be better educated today than it has needed to be in the past. It’s not just reading, writing, arithmetic, and civics anymore! Seeing what our nation’s governments have done with public schools, I cannot advocate making higher education part of that decrepit system. But, I am wholly dissatisfied with the misplaced focus of our for-profit colleges and universities.
There has to be some kind of middle-road that would refocus higher education on education rather than money, but would avoid getting it as screwed up as our public schools. Let me know if you have any ideas.
To this, I say duh. My Mercury Sable was totaled by a Jeep Wrangler in a low-speed crash, and my poor Cirrus was done $3,000 worth of damage in a low-speed crash with a Ford SUV (which came out undamaged).
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
