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Boston Just Proved That The Terrorists Have Won

(EDIT: lively Facebook discussion on this blog here.  Feel free to join in) On the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 I blogged about how the terrorists had succeeded in changing the very fabric of our culture and had thus won.  Now, in the wake of the horrific events surrounding the bombing of the Boston Marathon, I say again […]

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How Advanced is Binarybiker.com?

Google has a feature that allows you to show the reading level of a website as a filter in advanced search results.  There are three categories, Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced.  You can use it to rate the overall level of material on any given site.  This is a quick way to see what the reading […]

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American Politicians Take Lessons from Internet Trolls

American politics are a mess.  I have never been more disturbed and concerned about the future of our nation than I am right now.  Our politics have never been more partisan.  Our leaders have never been less willing to compromise.  Grand gestures and impossible ideology have become more important than doing the right thing.  Ad hominem attacks […]

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Fox News: Fair and Balanced? Hardly.

Today is a bad day for stocks in the wake of the S&P credit downgrade of the U.S.A..  As you can imagine, it’s the highlight of every online news organization in the country.  I decided to take a look at the major news outlets to see how they were reporting the news.  Unsurprisingly, nearly all […]

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Current Controversies: Patriotism

The Binary Biker has been published (again)! A blog post I wrote in 2010 on Patriotism was picked up and included in a textbook titled Current Controversies: Patriotism.  Published by Greenhaven Press, the text is part of a collection of books that touch on hot and emerging topics in today’s world.  From the publisher’s website: Each […]

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Why didn’t Osama bin Laden get a trial?

On May 1st, 2001 I checked my smartphone phone before I went to bed and saw that the President of the United States was preparing an important press announcement and would be addressing the nation live.  A late-night, unplanned, Presidential address; something big was happening.  Feelings of dread filled me as crawled out of bed, […]

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Is Crashing A White House Party Criminal?

hey have a flair for the dramatic. They are glory-hounds. They shamelessly seek notoriety and fame. The Salahi’s crashed a White House party they were not invited to, mingled with the political elite, and even shook hands with the President himself. What they did was definitely ill-advised and showed poor judgment – but are they criminals?

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