Voice of North America Articles

EXCERPT: What ever happed to 'common sense' in America?
"Common Sense' is defined by Webster as:Main Entry: common sense Function: noun Date: 1726
: sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or
Has it been bred out of the masses?Is it something that 'they' have been putting inthe water or the food supply to wipe out Common Sense in America?This seems unlikely, as not everybody appears to be affected.While there is some obviousignorance behind this lack of common...

EXCERPT: The History of Christmas
The history of Christmas dates back over 4000 years. Many of our Christmas traditions were celebrated centuries before the Christ child was born. The 12 days of Christmas, the bright fires, the yule log, the giving of gifts, carnivals(parades) with floats, carolers who sing while going from house to house, the holiday feasts, and the church processions can all be traced back to the early Mesopotamians.
Many of these traditions began with the Mesopotamian...

EXCERPT: Right-Wingers and Neocons Love Obama's Cabinet Appointments By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet Posted on November 30, 2008, Printed on December 2, 2008
As Barack Obama's opus, Team of Rivals, continues its rolling debut, the early reviews are in and the "critics" are full of praise for the cast:
"[T]he new administration is off to a good start." -- Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell.
"[S]uperb ... the best of the Washington insiders ... this will be a valedictocracy -- rule by those...

EXCERPT: By Jackie Calmes
Monday, November 24, 2008
WASHINGTON: It is testament to former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's star power among many Democrats that as President-elect Barack Obama fills out his economic team, a virtual Rubin constellation is taking shape.
The president-elect's choices for his top economic advisers — Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary, Lawrence Summers as senior White House economics adviser and Peter Orszag as budget director — are past protégés of...

EXCERPT: "On the street when I am approached by an Obama/Biden volunteer or someone who tells me they’re voting for Obama, I usually ask “What about the FISA vote?” And each time I hear in return “What’s that?” Or if I say, “You know he supports the death penalty,” I usually hear in response, “No he doesn’t.”
At what point will there be intellectual honesty about what ishappening? People are voting for Obama because they find him to be an engaging public speaker and like his message regardless...

EXCERPT: US Senator Joe Biden, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, speaks with Shalom TV CEO Mark S. Golub on Israel and Jewish-related issues in this exclusive interview. Shalom TV is an American Jewish cable television network carried on Comcast and Blue Ridge cable systems. Complete programming information is available online at http://www.shalomtv.com

Former officials say Iran helped on al-Qaida
By BARRY SCHWEID – 16 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an effort to help the...

EXCERPT: Paulson And Bailout: Conflicts Of Interest?
By KEVIN G. HALL
McClatchy Newspapers
September 22, 2008
WASHINGTON —
 Making the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows, Treasury
Secretary Henry Paulson repeatedly said today's financial problems
were long in the making. He should know. He was part of the Gold Rush
that has brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse.
Paulson presided over one of the most profitable runs on Wall Street
as chairman and...

EXCERPT: Sarah Palin’s position on foreign policy, first explored in her RNC speech last week. She said she had already spoken to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and had given him assurances of her commitment to Georgia, and believed “we’ve got to keep an eye on Russia”. She said she was in favor of NATO membership for both Georgia and the Ukraine, and when asked if this would require the US to go to war if war broke out between Russia and Georgian again, the governor said “Perhaps so....

EXCERPT: A Better Way to Have Handled 9/11by Jacob G. Hornberger
Seven years after 9/11, shouldn’t Americans ask if there was a better way to respond to those attacks? After all, look at where we are today as a result of how President Bush chose to respond to 9/11:
1. A perpetual “war on terrorism” being waged by U.S. personnel all over the world.
2. A military invasion of Afghanistan that killed countless Afghanis despite the fact that U.S. officials never provided evidence, as they promised,...

EXCERPT: Osama bin Laden, 7 years on......
7 Years Later, No Closer To Bin Laden Al Qaeda Leader Proves Adept At Evading U.S. Tactics, Which Are Causing New Problems (CBS) Seven years after Sept. 11, 2001, in spite of President Bush's vows, the mastermind of the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil, Osama bin Laden, is still at large and leading a resurgent al Qaeda.
Since that day, al Qaeda has struck in Madrid, London, Bali, and Casablanca, reports CBS News correspondent...