Irregular Times: News Unfit to PrintIn a time of the fall, old paths close and new paths open. In these irregular times, we offer the incredulous, the heretical, the treasonous, the out of sight. Our news is unfit to print.Free Market Solutions to Replace Government Regulation- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The idea of market-based solutions comes from the Republican belief that problems of all kinds are best solved by allowing the mechanisms of a market-based economy to operate without restriction. Republicans believe that, just as appropriate prices for different sorts of merchandise are set by the forces of supply and demand, so too can social problems be addressed by allowing people in a free market to decide how much it is worth for those problems to be addressed. For example, instead of...http://www.irregulartimes.com/freemarketsystem.html Resources for Oklahoma Progressives- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Oklahoma is not the state cheerily depicted in the Oscar and Hammerstein musical. Oh, sure, there's plenty of corn, but in all the time I've spent in Oklahoma, I've never seen a barn dance, nor a surrey with the fringe on the top. Curly, where have you gone Curly's gone and opened up an anti-abortion clinic, it turns out. On a return trip to Oklahoma, I ran into a physician who had found the Lord and decided to practice medicine on the basis of religious authority instead of scientific...http://www.irregularnews.com/states/oklahoma.html I Voted for Bush -- Find Out Why- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Oh, I'm a good liberal. I believe in freedom and fairness and all that. I let all my friends and family know all about how liberal I am all the time. So, the people I know were very surprised when I told them that I voted for George W. Bush. I'll bet you're shocked too. It's okay. I understand. The thing is that I want you to understand too. What most liberals just can't get through their heads is that there are certain things in life that are more important than our liberal ideals. George W..http://www.irregulartimes.com/ivotedforbush.html Tennesseans to Watch Out For- (Found July 8, 2008 ) In the election of 2004, Republican-leaning areas of the country reported they voted their 'moral values.' But what, exactly, are the 'moral values' they supported Eugenics, the notion that who gets to reproduce, and with with whom, should be a matter of policy under the control of technocratic politicians, is commonly thought to be an idea of the past, consigned to the days when interracial relationships were against the law and women of the "wrong sort" -- black women, disabled...http://irregularnews.com/index.php/archives/2004/11/24/tennesseans-to-watch-out-for/ Congress Watch: Putting Guns in the Hands of the Violent- (Found July 8, 2008 ) There is room for legitimate debate on the meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and what it implies for the right to bear arms. But most politicians and members of the public have agreed that some restrictions on gun ownership are reasonable. For instance, it has been agreed upon that young children should not be able to purchase guns and ammunition on their own, since they are not yet proficient at the rational control needed to use a gun properly. Similarly, most...http://irregularnews.com/index.php/archives/2004/11/25/congress-watch-putting-guns-in-the-... The Bush Mandate: Racial Segregation- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Using data from the Office of the Alabama Secretary of State, we show a clear relationship between support for George W. Bush and support for policies of official racial segregation. Counties where George W. Bush did poorly supported the effort to remove racial segregation mandates from the Alabama Constitution. Counties where George W. Bush did well voted to keep policies of racial segregation on the books.http://irregularnews.com/index.php/archives/2004/11/29/the-bush-mandate-racial-segregation... Homeland Amusement Security- (Found July 8, 2008 ) At the end of last week, I was dismayed to find out that the official list of locations in the United States vulnerable to terrorist attack, which was supposed to have been completed by the Department of Homeland Security by the end of this month, is far behind schedule, and may take many more years to complete. If there's one thing I've learned since September 11, 2001, it's that we cannot hope to feel secure until we create a cabinet-level department in the federal government with a staff...http://www.irregulartimes.com/homelandminigolf.html Killing Our Own People- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Today, as I read the news, I am reflecting upon a phrase we have all heard used many times by America's leaders: "own people". Its usage usually runs something like this: "Saddam Hussein killed thousands of his own people!" Expressions of outrage about what Saddam Hussein did to "his own people" ran rampant through the American media in the months leading up to the American invasion and occupation of Iraq. Every time I heard the phrase "his own people"...http://www.irregulartimes.com/theirpeopleourpeople.html The Foreigner Worth Index, December 13-15, 2004- (Found July 8, 2008 ) One marker of the moral imbalance of the system of American slavery was the rendering of slaves as worth three-fifths of a free person. Textbooks assure us that Americans wouldn't engage in the sort of devaluation of human life now, because we're so much more moral and civilized. We've grown out of that tacky phase in our history, we're told. But is it true One way to assess the extent to which we value one life over another life is to measure the attention given to death, the end of a life....http://irregularnews.com/index.php/archives/2004/12/15/the-foreigner-worth-index-december-... Taking Liberties With Security- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Reacting to the attacks, and the plans for next month's elections, outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell stated that there should be no illusion that suddenly right after the election, the Iraqis are going to be able to take over their own security. This statement by Secretary Powell is interesting to me because it provides a kind of twisted mirror image of a claim frequently made by George W. Bush to justify his domestic security policies: The first duty of the President is to protect the..http://www.irregulartimes.com/iraqleadingsecurity.html |