About me - William Wandersee Jr.
Gen Xer, Reagan baby, growing up with the threat of Mutual Assured Destruction, the spectre of nuclear winter and scared to death by "The Day After"...
Bag boy, dishwasher, video store clerk, K-Mart employee (twice!), landscaper, Navy Corpsman, nursing aide,
RSS Feed- Politics, News & Issues > News Industry Talk radio: Topics not worthy of 'freedom of speech'
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The First Amendment of the United States Constitution reads "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech..." Those are some simple yet powerful words direct and to the point. There are no qualifiers, and no exceptions for speech that is offensive, "dirty" or hateful. Talk radio has drawn its share of critici... More..
- Politics, News & Issues > News Industry Why the news is never good news
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Why is the news never good news? You may as well ask why everyone slows down to rubberneck at a traffic accident. If you're an optimist, it has the flavor of "there but for the grace of God go I." If you're a pessimist, you might go with a German word - schadenfreude - which roughly translates as gaining pleasure from the mis... More..
- Politics, News & Issues > US Politics (Other) How tougher punishments, not gun control, can lower firearm violence
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There is a compelling reason that increasing punishment instead of increasing gun control can lower firearm violence, and suprisingly it has little to do with the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms. Instead, it has everything to do with where those arms are coming from. The average gun-owning American has followed th... More..
- Politics, News & Issues > News (Other) Does government have a role in overseeing the release of results from federally funded science, or does the public have the right to view such information unfiltered
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When Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous address on the battlefield of Gettysburg, he described democracy as "government of the people, by the people, and for the people." The role of the Federal Government was designed to be one of service to the people of the United States. The role of science is arguably to serve humanki... More..
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- How tougher punishments, not gun control, can lower firearm violence
- Does government have a role in overseeing the release of results from federally funded science, or does the public have the right to view such information unfiltered
- Why the news is never good news
- Talk radio: Topics not worthy of 'freedom of speech'
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