"Democracies don't attack each other," President Clinton declared in his 1994 State of the Union address. Eleven years later, in his State of the Union, President Bush advanced the same hypothesis: Because democracies respect their own people and their neighbors, the advance of freedom will lead to peace." Both men summed up nicely the fundamental tenet of the "Democratic Peace Theory," namely, the idea that democracies do not go to war with one another. [Read article]

More than a year after Janet Jackson's "Nipplegate," the nation's television producers still haven't learned their lesson. NBC is planning a new television drama for next fall called "The American King." In the show's first scene, the president of the United States voyeuristically watches as the wife of his secretary of defense undresses. The president's obsession only grows and before the episode is over, the president secretly arranges for the secretary to be murdered, and he makes the whole thing look like a normal act of war. After killing off the competition, the president moves in and marries the new widow. [Read article]

Wildcat Mexico travel advisory justified

Roberto Nungaray's reply to the Wildcat's advisory for U.S. tourists to be cautious in Mexico, seems to lack some important elements. First, it was not just the Wildcat who issued this warning, but in fact, it was the State Department. It is simply a cautious warning issued to alert future tourists to Mexico of the recent rise in crime. What Mr. Nungaray is doing is addressing so many more issues and veering off-track from the actual warning itself. Secondly, Mr. Nungaray states that maybe the terrorists have a reason for killing innocent American people. Well perhaps the reason is that they had waged a war against the American people as a whole, because of our collective identity that differs from theirs. One might call it a cultural war; a war waged on our beliefs and customs. Conspiracy theorists like Mr. Nungaray like to believe that the American people are responsible for all the world's problems and that is why some foreigners tend to hate Americans. Lastly, Mr. Nungaray needs to follow some of his own advice and think outside of the conspiracy theory box and stop assuming that there are always motives behind something as simple as a warning of crime in Mexico. [Read article]