by Monty Self | Jan 24, 2010 | Opinion
Like so many Americans, I have been glued to the television and its images from Haiti. On a coffee break, I watched first responders pull people out of the rubble. With my heart broken at the sight of such profound human suffering, a gentleman leaned over to me and...
by Monty Self | Jan 17, 2010 | Opinion
In the wake of recent events like the Arkansas recruiting station shooting, the shootings at Fort Hood and the failed bombing of Northwestern Flight 253, many conservative politicians are calling for the government to expand the use of racial profiling for the...
by Monty Self | Jan 5, 2010 | Opinion
The Stars and Stripes recently reported that seven soldiers – three men and four women – were being reprimanded for violating the pregnancy ban in northern Iraq. In early November, the ban was added to General Order No. 1 by Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo III, commander of...
by Monty Self | Dec 9, 2009 | Opinion
On Nov. 29, the Swiss approved a ban on the future construction of minarets. Minarets have become an international icon of the Islamic faith. They are the tall, slender towers that usually stand outside a mosque and have historically been used to call the faithful to...
by Monty Self | Nov 6, 2009 | Opinion
As a philosophy student, I came to understand that definitions are important. . All arguments depend on foundational propositions, and often those propositions are based on definitions and axioms. No wonder Socrates said, “The beginning of wisdom is the...
