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The cult of Obama

The dictionary defines a cult as “an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.” In my opinion, America’s newest cult is a man named Barack Obama.
I have resigned myself to his presidency. I accept that he is a gifted [...]

When the solution is worse than the problem

Scientists sometimes introduce a predator into an ecosystem in order to take care of a pest that is threatening say, the potato crop. These experiments often go wrong - the predator turns out to be more dangerous than the pest. Social engineers do the same thing as scientists, except with human beings. One example is [...]