Opinion/Editorial Week in Review: Indians, Christians, Bankers, and Darwin - The American Dream

A Review of the Op/Ed Section for the Week Ending June 18, 2006

You know what’s really cool about Associated Content? You get to read about things that there’s probably no way in Hades you would ever get to read about otherwise. You certainly wouldn’t get to read about it in your local paper. Name another web site where you can find the factual information contained in the article titled The Pechanga American Indian Tribe and the U.S. Supreme Court as well as the editorial information added by Margaret Munro Lyons. Lyons raises the age-old question of whether any dispute in America is really ideological or does it always just come down to the Benjamins. (Marx, of course, would say there’s no difference there at all.) Lyons relates a fascinating court case that will probably never get covered by Nancy Grace or Dan Abrams because it doesn’t involve the disappearance of a less-than-brilliant young blonde woman. Nobody really cares too much about Native American rights, certainly not the supposedly left-wing American media that is supposed to just lap this kind of stuff up as an example of how bad America is. Margaret’s article is a perfect example of the kind of hard to get information that is available here.


Equally so, Associated Content is also revolving billboard on which people can advertise competing opinions on topics at the forefront of the great American debate. David Merriman’s Intelligent Design: Another Look presents a rational response to the argument in favor of Intelligent Design as a scientific answer to Darwinian evolution. By now the Scopes Trial should be such an embarrassment to the United States that we would never allow anything like it to happen again. Merriman’s article peels away the veneer to establish that no matter what its proponents may successfully sneak into the curriculum of schools across this country Intelligent Design is just another name for a supernatural theory of creation.