Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with op_ed www.salem-news.com 2013 Capitalism, it should now be clear, is the most efficient form of economic organization. http://salem-news.com/articles/march012013/capitalism-today-ab.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march012013/capitalism-today-ab.php Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:17:00 PST “As long as one is shackled to materialism, one can never attain dignity in life,” stated Hojatul Islam Ibrahim Kazerooni during his Muharram lectures. http://salem-news.com/articles/december132012/materialism-today-yw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december132012/materialism-today-yw.php Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:34:00 PST Although she died in 1982, Ayn Rand and her acolytes, like the living dead, keep rising from the ground to walk the streets. http://salem-news.com/articles/october112012/rand_dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october112012/rand_dj.php Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:48:00 PDT That's not a reference to a brute for a husband or a bitch for a bride. It's a question motivated by the behaviour of the mindless louts who enjoy holding sacrificial lambs as hostages and killing those who complain. http://salem-news.com/articles/august262012/naked-emperor-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august262012/naked-emperor-pb.php Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:54:00 PDT Are you a good American? If you are content with the fact that the President of the US can, at his discretion, have US citizens assassinated with no charges, no trial, and with the President serving as judge, jury, and executioner, you are not a good citizen. You do not deserve your citizenship. http://salem-news.com/articles/july252012/good-americans-jc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july252012/good-americans-jc.php Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:16:00 PDT In the 19th century, history was largely explained by The Great Man Theory , the paradigm that history was made and driven by extraordinary individuals who, through either charisma, intelligence, wisdom, or Machiavellian skills, expressed their power in a way that had a decisive impact on the flow of history. Herbert Spencer, the 19th century Father of Sociology, rejected this idea, saying that such “great” men are really the products of their social milieu, and that their actions would be impossible outside their social environment. http://salem-news.com/articles/april212012/ows_part_1.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april212012/ows_part_1.php Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:00:00 PDT Despite their unavoidable competition, our Founders assured themselves of the essentials for any conscientious agreement on the complex issues of human relations and governing policies. http://salem-news.com/articles/february162012/honest-policy-hcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february162012/honest-policy-hcr.php Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:43:00 PST The goal of this series is to inform Oregon's elected officials about bills drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Conference - rather than bills submitted by Oregonians. Vetting ALEC Bills: A closer look at bills sponsored by representatives serving the American Legislative Exchange Conference. http://salem-news.com/articles/february132012/alec-bills-rr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february132012/alec-bills-rr.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:20:00 PST The brute fact is that much of the murderous muddle comes from lack of wisdom rather than the containing status of "a campaign year": The demands of that strange time illuminating mostly the mildly-insane machinations within the remaining wreckage of a once-major group. http://salem-news.com/articles/february122012/wisdom-cometh-hcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february122012/wisdom-cometh-hcr.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:58:00 PST Corporations exist solely to extract money from any source they can process, using whatever means they can manage, maneuver or manipulate. The so-called "modern" corporation has yet to accept and build its chartered structure and operations on any purpose but that of "profit" --however obtained. http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/corporate-gurus-hcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/corporate-gurus-hcr.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:50:00 PST There were sombre ceremonies across Tucson, Arizona on Sunday, January 8, 2012, in remembrance of Jared Loughner’s shooting spree a year ago where he seriously wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords, killed six and wounded 12 more. I suggest that the Untied States, is the only country in world, where remembrances could be held virtually every single day of the year for egregious killings of citizens by their other citizens—all indirectly supported by the National Rifle Association. http://salem-news.com/articles/january082012/nra_terrorism_dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january082012/nra_terrorism_dj.php Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:59:00 PST The ALEC-crisis continues, threatening every state-level law enacted since 1973 with possible, even probable, distortion and perversion from what might have been enacted, lacking corporate dollar-millions spent to provide carefully-constructed and controlled "model legislation" for passage. http://salem-news.com/articles/november022011/alec-legislation-hcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november022011/alec-legislation-hcr.php Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:38:00 PDT We’ve been seeing the warnings at the start of VHS/DVD movies for so long, that we don’t even notice them anymore, except to be irritated that we have to endure them because we can’t fast forward past them. http://salem-news.com/articles/october252011/free_market_dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october252011/free_market_dj.php Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:37:00 PDT Most of the good done in the world is done by non-capitalists. Here are the top 50 aspects of capitalism (in no particular order) that are combining to destroy the earth and mankind along the way... http://salem-news.com/articles/october182011/top-50-dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october182011/top-50-dj.php Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:13:00 PDT Capitalism is fundamentally about the production, distribution and consumption of goods. By itself, this is a neutral and harmless reality. The harm enters when production alone, becomes capitalism’s raison d’être Capitalism “works” because capitalists risk their capital in an enterprise in the hope/expectation they will receive an increased return (profit) on their investment. Again, this is not an unreasonable expectation. http://salem-news.com/articles/september182011/capitalism_good_dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september182011/capitalism_good_dj.php Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:54:00 PDT Long ago in leading story coverage for United Press-Boston, learned first thing demanded on any controversial situation was free, open, honest, comprehensive opportunity for dialog with the reporter, prior to any publication of further detail. http://salem-news.com/articles/september152011/alec-35hcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september152011/alec-35hcr.php Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:08:00 PDT By personal choice and improbable chance, early on in this life's long journey, I had opportunity to work --and learn-- in our nation's capital city and the Capitol itself --in the 1950s. What we did there, then, can hardly be termed as "lobbying" since it was so early and so amateurish, but we did succeed in helping to draft an historic legislative achievement, the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which brought more than $9 million in matching funds to Oregon education. http://salem-news.com/articles/september012011/alec-tunnel-hcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september012011/alec-tunnel-hcr.php Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:14:00 PDT Never have so many sought so false and misleading a deep view of past US historical event and culminating current issues than the dolts and distressed-pundit politicians of this GOPster Gang, and its surround of would-be campaign-funds collectors --already failing and falling away one by one. http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/gopster-gang-hcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/gopster-gang-hcr.php Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:42:00 PDT The First Amendment has always been the shining jewel introducing and reflecting the glories set forth in the American Constitution. Our Founding Fathers knew what they were doing --and WHY. That is how come it IS the FIRST --not further down-the-list of their great accomplishments, still recognized world-around for the invention and intervention and inevitable impacts on individual life and liberties set forth in this superbly sensitive and surely unique document in history. http://salem-news.com/articles/august192011/first-ammendment-hcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august192011/first-ammendment-hcr.php Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:33:00 PDT At birth we join society (in progress) as a nascent thread; when we exit society, we leave a rip in the social fabric. John Steinbeck observed in one of his novels: “When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so, you’ve got two new people.” Society is created and sustained by these ongoing interactions of its members—a non-stop fluxion of interrelationships. http://salem-news.com/articles/august052011/they_die_we_die_dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august052011/they_die_we_die_dj.php Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:47:00 PDT Gordon Gekko is a fictional movie character played by Michael Douglas (a role for which he won the best actor Academy Award). At the end of the first movie, in 1987, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) has turned him in for insider trading and the viewer is left with the impression that GG will go to jail. It’s 1993 before he “actually” does and he is in for almost eight years—released just after 9/11. http://salem-news.com/articles/july312011/gordon_gekko.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july312011/gordon_gekko.php Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:10:00 PDT Seldom, these days,. do I ever find any book, even the most professional-level ones, of such overriding importance that it requires me to write essentially a book-report in place of mine own "informed opinion" as an Op Ed. But it does still happen --very occasionally indeed. This one is simply titled "BLUR". http://salem-news.com/articles/may122011/information-overload-hcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122011/information-overload-hcr.php Thu, 12 May 2011 15:29:00 PDT Let us say you have a son or daughter who you perceive as a good person. They received a good education, work hard at a job, and respect the rights of others. They are a peace loving and kind person. Now suppose that child comes home one day and says to you “Dad (or Mom) I’m gay”. At this point, we must examine what has changed. The son or daughter is still the same educated, hard-working, respectful, loving, and kind person they were 10 mins. ago. http://salem-news.com/articles/april192011/gay-marraigebc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april192011/gay-marraigebc.php Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:27:00 PDT We must never forget that democracy is most definitely a do-it-yourself proposition, dependent always on what its participants choose to do. No matter how strong or well-monied or otherwise well-prepared, any attacker seeking to manipulate a strong democracy must eventually deal directly with participant-strength weaponed by the remarkable, remorseless potency of the personal vote. http://salem-news.com/articles/april162011/citizen-choice-hcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april162011/citizen-choice-hcr.php Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:43:00 PDT Oregonians' priorities. That ought to be the legislature's guide when it comes into session in January and confronts a revenue shortfall by deciding where to spend Oregon's precious tax dollars. In today's harsh economic landscape, what more important priority can there be than helping low-income, working families with children make ends meet? http://salem-news.com/articles/october212010/oregon-priorities-cs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october212010/oregon-priorities-cs.php Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:20:00 PDT Republicans in general are pretty smart people. They seem to be able to amass large fortunes more frequently than anyone else. You do not accomplish this by being stupid. Ever since the Democrats took back Washington, profits are down. They see the Democrats as wanting to feed the hunger, cure the sick, provide food and shelter for the poor, fight injustice. To an extent that is true. However, they feel the Democrats want to do these things with the taxpayers money. That would, of course, include some of their tax dollars. http://salem-news.com/articles/september062010/recession-opedlb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september062010/recession-opedlb.php Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:21:00 PDT “What are your intentions, sir ?” demanded the traditional Victorian virgin when confronted by her canny and contriving seducer. In a second “joke” often used in psychiatry, the judge demands “Yes or No” answer from an accused: “Have you stopped beating your wife?” http://salem-news.com/articles/august262010/history-facts-hcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august262010/history-facts-hcr.php Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:29:00 PDT From Day One Salem-News has stood up for full, open, honest --and thus democratic-- American dialog. Our Comments format was shaped to encourage and permit precisely that kind of full statement, strong and potent precisely because it reflects REAL PEOPLE --in their own words, after cogitation on strong feelings. http://salem-news.com/articles/july262010/deceitful-dialog-hr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july262010/deceitful-dialog-hr.php Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:28:00 PDT American education is built from the foundation of tax-return on private property and personal income. Libertarians will kill that basic source of support among their first actions --even before they cancel and negate Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. http://salem-news.com/articles/june122010/libertarians-ruin-hr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june122010/libertarians-ruin-hr.php Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:36:00 PDT As we watch the airing of the daily soap-opera that Washington D.C. has become, it appears that one or more things are missing. http://salem-news.com/articles/june122010/what-is-missing-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june122010/what-is-missing-bc.php Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:32:00 PDT