Late last night, as I was attempting to fall asleep, it finally dawned on me why Obama’s candidacy so captured Americas youth. At the age of 24, I am one of the older members of Generation Y, a generation marked by political and social activists. What fully came into focus is that I have only [...]
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What Today Really Means
When this blog post is due to be published, an utterly amazing and relatively uncommon thing is taking place in the most powerful nation in the world – the exchange of power not through violence, exile, or death, but with pomp and celebration. Indeed, the swearing in of one president whilst the outgoing president sits [...]
2009 – The next 1962?
On September 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy proclaimed these famous words: There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the [...]