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The BBHQ Political Roundtable is a platform designed to encourage
visitors to share ideas, facts and opinions on political and social
issues that affect all of us. Items 1 & 2: Each essay addresses a specific topic. We welcome your response to the essays. We will post all reasonable responses. This is also your chance to have your voice heard. See below for submission guidelines. Item 3: If you have just a short comment on a current political or social issue, we want to hear that, too. The roundtable Bulletin Board is designed for comments less than 200 words. The roundtable Bulletin Board is scheduled to open this spring. Item 4: Links will help you learn about and research political and social issues.
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We have strong political opinions on many issues. But the roundtable is open to all reasonable viewpoints. We want to encourage a debate, not merely express our point of view.
Our objective is to encourage you to communicate, learn, think about and draw conclusions on the social and political issues that affect all of us. We want you thinking and involved! We do not want you sitting on the sidelines.
There are some rules, however, applicable to all contributions:
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Essays should address a national (U.S.) or international issue of general
interest. We cannot address local or state issues here. Tell us what you THINK about and an issue, and why you think as you do. Do not tell us how you FEEL about an issue. Your feelings matter on Oprah's show; they do not matter here. Support your position with facts you can document (if required), logic and solid reasoning. Spelling, grammar and punctuation count. We do not want to embarrass the rest of the world by showing how poorly some of us write. Use a spell-check. If your contribution contains errors, we will send it back to you for a re-write. Essays should be clear and concise, and should address a specific topic. We prefer essays under 1,500 words, but we will consider longer ones if you keep our interest. All contributions must be your own, original writings. You may not submit someone else's work or previously published material (except as attributed documentation within your essay.) You may provide links to other Internet sites and references to books, newspapers and magazine articles to support your position. Yes, we will edit your contributions. Prepare to have your views challenged or validated... or both. If you write something to which everybody already agrees, you are very sweet, but you are not furthering the discussion. Please remember, BBHQ is a G-rated site. That rating applies to our Political Roundtable as well. If you need an excess of four-letter words to make your point, you will have to make it somewhere else. You must include an e-mail address with every contribution. We require this merely to confirm your the source and possibly to ask for additional information or clarification. We will not post your e-mail address unless you specifically request us to do so. (Your contributions become the property of BBHQ, to use as we deem appropriate.)
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We are all proud, loyal Americans here at BBHQ. We have an American bias and an American slant. That does not necessarily make us right; it is merely a demographic reality. But we both welcome and encourage input from non-U.S. citizens.
Here are several topics open for discussion:
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The proper role of government in a mature democracy. (This is our favorite
topic. We will come back to it as often as we can.) Stem cell research. Campaign finance reform. The Bush tax cut. The Bush energy proposal. Education. Abortion rights. Government waste, fraud and abuse. Regulation covering the use of cell phones. The minimum wage. Violence in our streets and in our schools. The death penalty. Term limits. Gun control. The legalization of drugs. Mass transit. Government-mandated fuel efficiency. Energy conservation/generation. Tort reform. U.S. health care: mess or miracle? |
Here is your chance to have your voice heard. Regardless of your point of view, we are eager to hear from you. Read the submission guidelines above, then send us your essay to BBHQ..
We have found these Internet sites provide rich and useful information on social and political issues:
The Wall Street Journal's daily summary and commentary on timely stories on the Internet. In September, Peggy Noonan is scheduled to return to the pages of the Wall Street Journal: www.opinionjournal.com
Dan Rather calls the New York Times "middle of the road." We disagree, but it is the newspaper of record. Look for columns by Maureen Dowd and William Saphire: www.nytimes.com
The Washington Post - look for columns by David Broder and George Will: www.washingtonpost.com
The Washington Times - the other paper of our nation's capital: www.washtimes.com
Thought provoking news and information: www.townhall.com
Sucking the living daylights out of us; daily updates on the scourge of litigation: www.overlawyered.com
They report, you decide; lots of good online information and insight: www.foxnews.com
Lucianne Goldberg is the nut who advised Linda Tripp. But her site contains summaries and links to tons of interesting articles: www.lucianne.com
Refdesk contains links to just about any information you might want: www.refdesk.com
Assignmenteditor.com has links to dozens of newspapers: www.assignmenteditor.com
Jewish World Review has essays by some of the best writers in the world: www.jewishworldreview.com
Dennis Prager - If you do not know who Dennis Prager is.... you should. He is one of the best thinkers in the country: www.dennisprager.com
Jeff Jacoby - a terrific writer and thinker: www.boston.com/globe/columns/jacoby/
The Progressive Review: lots of good stuff: www.prorev.com
Roll Call - the weekly newspaper of Congress: www.rollcall.com
Heritage Foundation - web site of the serious think tank: www.heritage.org
The Economist - a left-wing, America-hating, British rag that uses economic theories -- which can be shaped to "prove" anything -- to push their agenda: www.economist.com
Roll Call - the weekly newspaper of Congress: www.rollcall.com
Information Please - Almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia...: www.infoplease.com
The White House: www.whitehouse.gov
U.S. Senate: www.senate.gov
U.S. House: www.house.gov
U.S. Supreme Court: www.supremecourtus.gov
U.S. Library of Congress: www.loc.gov
The Roundtable Bulletin Board:
We'll set up the Roundtable Bulletin Board when we receive enough input from you.
BBHQ Boomer-in-Charge Hershel Chicowitz always has something to say, offering a boomer perspective on current events:
In This Week with the Chicowitz,
Hershel explains the primary election process with insight you have not heard before:
So, the DNC set up a primary election charade merely to weed out the loose
canons... you know, the Howard Deans of the party. Then they leave it up
to the superdelegates to cast the deciding votes at their nominating
convention. superdelegates are not bound by any primary election results.
At the convention in August, they could vote for... say, Al Gore, if the
temperature suits them.
Click here for the whole story.
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| The BBHQ Album of the Month is "Old Friends Live on Stage (Deluxe Edition) (2 CD/1 DVD)," by Simon & Garfunkel. If you were fortunate enough to see them in concert last year, I do not have to sell you. The concert was terrific! This album collection includes 55 songs, plus their new recording, "Citizen of the Planet," and one of the songs sung by the Everly Brothers during the concert. The DVD was recorded during their concert in Madison Square Garden in 2003. For any S&G fan, this is a must have! But then, you knew that already, didn't you? |
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The BBHQ Book of the Month is
"Vinyl Highway," by
Dee Dee Phelps. You remember her as Dee Dee, of Dick and Dee Dee.
Together, they took a decade long ride on the rock and roll roller
coaster. It was a heck of a ride! Dick Clark, Quincy Jones, the Beach
Boys, Glenn Campbell, Dionne Warwick, Bobby Vinton... Dick and Dee Dee
rubbed shoulders with all of them. This is her "behind the scenes" story.
It's pretty cool.
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