AltWeeklies Wire
Terrorists Will Attack Us With Drones. Bet On It.
What's to stop a hostile nation-state from attacking the United States with drones? Nothing. What if terrorists get drones? They will.
Philanthropy is Evil
Bloomberg's billion-dollar gift to a school that doesn't need a penny illustrates the inherent absurdity of capitalism: aggregating so much wealth and power in the hands of a few individuals. It's obscene and morally reprehensible to allow a disproportional share of resources to fall under the control of the arbitrary whims of a few quirky rich dudes.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
01-29-2013 |
Policy Issues
Murdered by a Prosecutor
The suicide of a tech wunderkind should prompt a general reexamination of America's out-of-control prison sentences.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
01-14-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: hacking, Aaron Swartz
I'd Buy the (LA) Times
Asked how they'd spend the $293.7 million they won in November's record Powerball lottery, a Missouri couple told reporters they planned to buy a Camaro. I could help them spend the rest.
Tags: Tribune Co.
We Don't Have the Right to Care About Newtown
Since we have made a collective national decision to be a bunch of coldhearted bastards, we have to be morally consistent. And that means not caring about our kids either.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
12-18-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Shoot First, Justify Later
Imagine that you were the president of United States. Now think what you would do if you or one of your advisers proposed an idea—a great idea, one that solved a big problem—that was radical to the point of possibly crossing the legal line into unconstitutionality. You'd want to lawyer that sucker, right?
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
11-28-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Face It, Pro-Choice Women—Obama Isn't That Into You
If you can overlook Obama's crimes and misdemeanors—if abortion rights are all you care about—there still isn't much reason to vote for Obama.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
10-30-2012 |
The War on Women
Factchecking the Factcheckers
Whether people are deciding which of the two corporate major-party candidates to vote for, or they're looking outside the system to a third party, voter boycott or revolution to overthrow the entire system, they can't make an intelligent decision without knowing the pertinent facts.
Big Bird is a 1%er
If you accept public money, you're in public service and should get paid accordingly. Which is to say, fairly--and at the lowest fair cost to taxpayers.
Tags: Big Bird
Bringing a Pen to a Gunfight
Either you're serious about eliminating gun violence, or you're not. "Soul-searching" isn't going to block the next bullet fired by a madman—but the law, coupled with rigorous enforcement, can.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
08-13-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: gun control
Iran - Because Two Wars Aren't Enough
Year after year, on one foreign crisis after another, American presidents repeatedly state some variation on the theme that war is always an option, that the military option is always on the table. You've heard that line so often that you take it for granted. But did you know that "keeping the military option on the table" is a serious violation of international law?
Gun Control Talk Is Cheap. A Sane Mental Health System Is Not.
Setting aside the caveat that we still don't know why it happened, the big guns/crazy young white guy dynamic leads to two obvious policy prescriptions: gun control and improving access to mental health care. Post-Aurora, we're seeing a lot of the former, including calls for numerical limits on ammo sales—but relatively few of the latter.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
07-27-2012 |
Policy Issues
Tags: Gun Control
What Next for Occupy?
It's less important to guess whether Occupy has a future than to examine how a movement with widespread public support from left and right alike devolved from nearly 2000 public encampments to its current situation: marginalization and cooption.
'Good Stewards of the Environment'new
The U.S. Navy insists that they can protect marine mammals from the harm caused by warships using active sonar in the waters around Hawaii. What if they're wrong?
Maui Time |
Anthony Pignataro |
06-29-2012 |
Environment
Pols Need an Education - From Overseas
Public education is mirroring American society overall: a tiny island of haves surrounded by a vast ocean of have-nots. The idea neither party is willing to consider, is to replace localized control of education—funding, administration and curricula—with centralized federal control, as is common in Europe and around the world.
Tags: Education
