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A weekly column by Orson Scott Card

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First appeared in print in The Rhinoceros Times, Greensboro, NC

World Watch - 2009

• Sarah Palin's Book 12-20-09 • Why Union Leaders Are Trying to Destroy Themselves 09-27-09 • I'm Back 09-20-09 • One Party Rule Forever! 02-16-09 • Putting the Press in Their Place 01-25-09

World Watch - 2008

• Bailouts 12-21-08 • This Very Good Election Year 11-04-08 • World Watch Extra: America Unplugged! Obama's Cruel Tax on the Poor 11-02-08 • What Really Matters As We Vote 10-26-08 • Upholding the Constitution 10-12-08 • Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights? 10-05-08 • Barack Obama, Spinmeister 09-07-08 • Nobody Was Listening 08-10-08 • McCain's Vice 07-20-08 • Obama's Real Religion 05-25-08 • What Obama Should Have Said 05-18-08 • Intelligent Conversation 05-04-08 • Hillary's No-Lose Strategy 04-27-08 • Cars and Starvation? 04-20-08 • Obama -- Bigot or Elitist? 04-13-08 • Hillary Under Fire 03-30-08 • Answers about Obama 03-23-08 • The Poet As Bureaucrat 03-16-08 • Good Reporting, Bad Reporting 03-09-08 • Hillary's Bombshell Is a Dud 02-17-08 • The Party Tickets 02-10-08 • The Insanity of Parties 02-03-08 • Prejudice in the Primaries 01-13-08 • Please Don't Throw Away This Election 01-06-08

World Watch - 2007

• Bhutto's Death Shows Who Our Candidates Really Are 12-30-07 • A Stand-up President 12-01-07 • Who's Brave and Who's a Hypocrite? 11-11-07 • Word from a Soldier in Iraq 11-04-07 • Civilized Religion 10-28-07 • Nobel Prize for Literature Awarded to Roomful of Monkeys 10-14-07 • Phony Soldiers and Patriotism 10-07-07 • Ethnic Cleansing or "Amnesty" 08-26-07 • Learning from History 06-03-07 • Oil -- Past the Peak 05-06-07 • Don't You Dare Ask for Proof! 04-29-07 • Walking Neighborhoods 04-15-07 • Life Without Cars 04-08-07 • Honor 04-01-07 • Is Mitt Romney Serious? 03-18-07 • All in a Good Cause 03-04-07 • Evil Fiction 02-18-07 • The Crisis of the Islamo-Fascist War 01-14-07 • What Do We Do For Our Kids? 01-07-07

World Watch - 2006

• Honoring Those Who Died 12-17-06 • How Our Civilization Can Fall 12-03-06 • Democrats: Let's Save Some Lives 11-26-06 • Doonesbury vs. America 11-19-06 • Building Better Children 11-12-06 • The Only Issue This Election Day 10-29-06 • Groupthink and the Intellectual Elite 10-08-06 • The Dream House 10-01-06 • Homework, Part II 09-24-06 • Homework, Part I 09-17-06 • Lies and Catastrophes 08-13-06 • Know Thy Enemy 07-16-06 • What Is This "Crime," Really? 06-25-06 • American Soldiers and How We Use Them 04-16-06 • Freedom of Religion: For Everyone, Everywhere 03-26-06 • Three Books That Name Names 02-12-06 • What to Make of George W. Bush 02-05-06 • Iraq -- Quit or Stay? 01-15-06 • Creation and Evolution in the Schools 01-08-06

World Watch - 2005

• The Children of Divorce 11-13-05 • The News vs. the Truth? - Or - McCarthy Is Dead, So Get Him Back Into His Grave Already! 11-06-05 • The End of Moderation? 10-30-05 • Freakonomics Or You Have to Find the Facts Before You Can Face Them 09-11-05 • The Jackals after the Storm 09-04-05 • Gaza and the Israeli Settlers 08-21-05 • Weapons of Mass Destruction 07-24-05 • Killing the Common People 07-10-05 • Brain Training 06-26-05 • Taking Animals Seriously 06-19-05 • Is It Bad to Be Fat? 05-22-05 • The Riots of the Faithful 05-15-05 • Filibuster and Judges 05-01-05 • I Give You My Permission 04-17-05 • Why I Miss Karol Wojtyla 04-03-05 • Whose Life Is Worth Living? 03-20-05 • Global Warming: Fighting Off the Ice Age 03-06-05 • Why Making Choices Is So Hard 02-20-05 • Personal Government 02-13-05 • Does Democracy Really Work? 02-06-05 • Rice, Iraq, and Saudi Subversion 01-30-05 • Self-Esteem and Encouragement 01-23-05 • Unions; Religious Intolerance 01-16-05

World Watch - 2004

• Bush's Resolution for 2005: Make Health Care Fair, Excellent, and Affordable 12-26-04 • What Bush's Big Science Project Ought to Be 12-19-04 • A Letter from a Foreign Student in the U.S. 12-12-04 • Thanksgiving 11-21-04 • Reporting Out of Context 11-14-04 • Fixing Elections 11-07-04 • This Election and the Next; Osama's Video 10-31-04 • Emotions, the Draft, UnBush, Black Voters, and Local Candidates 10-24-04 • World Watch Extra 10-26-04 • Dumb Science, Kerry's Religion 10-17-04 • The Death of Shame 10-17-04 • Why We Are Winning and How We Can Still Lose 10-10-04 • Hypocrisy and Cynicism in America 10-10-04 • A "Different Iraq," the First Debate, and Why Kerry Is Scary 10-03-04 • Is Iraq a "Mess"? Who Is Recruiting for Osama? 09-26-04 • Which Terrorists Are Our Enemies? 09-05-04 • Election Guidebook, Kerry's Conscience, and Doomsayers II 08-29-04 • Who Was On Watch As the Dark Age Approached? 08-22-04 • Extremism and Ben Stein; Trial Lawyers as Candidates 08-15-04 • The War of Stories 08-08-04 • Mud-Covered Presidents 07-25-04 • Did We Invade the Wrong Country? 07-18-04 • Anti-Americanism in Korea; Bush and the NAACP 07-11-04 • Edwards as Veep; Legalizing Drugs 07-04-04 • Optimism, Pessimism, War, and Oil 06-27-04 • Kerry Plays "Let's Pretend" Like Clinton Did 06-13-04 • The Fanatics Who Tell Us the News 05-30-04 • "Fair and Balanced": Who Else But Dennis Miller? 05-23-04 • Messing Around with Our Bodies 05-16-04 • How Could Americans Do Such Things? 05-09-04 • Wartime Elections; Slippery Slopes 04-25-04 • Rediscovering History 04-18-04 • How Bush Caused 9/11 04-11-04 • Who's Running This War? 04-04-04 • On Fairness and Families 03-28-04 • Who Should Really Be Bush's Running Mate This Year? 03-21-04 • When Progress Stops Being Progress 03-07-04 • The Passion of the Christ -- Three Reviews and a Letter 02-29-04 • Homosexual "Marriage" and Civilization 02-15-04 • Memorial to Columbia 02-01-04 • Two Dangerous Fantasies about the War - or Why Joe Lieberman Is the Only Choice for Democrats 01-25-04 • An Empty Suit, Head Scarves, and Yarmulkes 01-18-04 • Loyalty, Sacrifice, and War on the Cheap 01-11-04 • Whom Can You Trust in the Media? 01-04-04

World Watch - 2003
	Good War and Bad War, Victory and Failure -12-21-03
	Saddam in Custody and Iraqi Oil -12-14-03
	The Elusive Goal of Intellectual Diversity -11-30-03
	Zell Miller Tries to Save the Democratic Party -11-23-03
	The Campaign of Hate and Fear -11-16-03
	Free Trade, Quotas, and Dumping -11-09-03
	On Lying -11-02-03
	Fanatic Terrorism from the Past -10-26-03
	A Visit to Israel -10-19-03
	Double Standards -- Arnold, Israel, Bush -10-05-03
	Death by Government -09-28-03
	We Can Lose This War After All -09-21-03
	MP3s Are Not the Devil - Part 2 -09-14-03
	MP3s Are Not the Devil -09-07-03
	The Best Universities and a Good Education -08-31-03
	Are Israelis the Palestinian Police? -08-24-03
	Community Theatre and the "F" Word -08-10-03
	Ideological Labels -- What Do They Mean? -08-03-03
	How the Press Makes America Look Bad Even When It Isn't -07-28-03
	Truth, Lies, and the story of an Ethiopian-American -07-21-03
	Cool New Rights Are Fine, but What About Democracy? -06-30-03
	Judges, filibusters, and Hillary -06-23-03
	Moral Stupidity -06-16-03
	Global Hawks and Raptors -05-26-03
	Who Is Preparing for Worldwide War? -05-19-03
	Anti-Americans, Paradise, and Cheap Tuition -05-12-03
	Forcing Freedom on the Faithful -04-28-03
	What If It All Goes Right? -04-21-03
	Imperial America? -04-14-03
	It Ain't Over Till It's Over -04-07-03
	How to Keep Your Perspective When the Media Lose Theirs -03-31-03
	The Most Careful of All Wars -03-24-03
	Brokaw, Practical Idealism, and France -03-17-03
	Awe, Shock, the U.N., and NATO -03-10-03
	Turkey and Germany and "Kill-Crazy" Leaders -03-03-03
	What Will "Victory" Look Like? -02-24-03
	"Hate Groups for Peace" and Other Mistakes -02-17-03
	Are Inspections Working? Is It All About Oil? -02-10-03
	Sarandon, Garafolo, Mandela -- McCarthyism of the Left -02-03-03
	Lessons of War: Anybody Can Lose -01-27-03
	Affirmative Action and the American Soul -01-20-03
	Government and the "Free Market" -01-13-03
	Why We Won't Invade North Korea -01-06-03

World Watch - 2002
	Anti-missiles, Material Breaches, and Segregationist Feelings -12-23-02
	Intelligence "Failures" and the Blame Game -12-16-02
	Al-Qaeda's Secret Message to America -12-09-02
	Missiles and Palestinian Opinion Polls -12-02-02
	Poindexter's Ounce-of-Prevention Project -11-25-02
	When Is Saddam "On the Verge"? -11-18-02
	Where Do the Parties Go Now? -11-11-02
	Dumb "Wisdom" -11-04-02
	The Rule of Law -10-28-02
	Leadership and the Elections of 2002 -10-21-02
	Letter from an American Muslim -10-14-02
	An Open Letter to the People of Europe -10-07-02
	Torricelli and the Election - 09-30-02
	Strategy - 09-23-02
	Iraq: Deterrence or Prevention? - 09-16-02
	Why We Need a Free Press During Wartime - 09-09-02
	The First Year of the Terrorist War - 09-02-02
	Religious Tolerance - 08-26-02
	Evil and the "Phony War" - 08-19-02
	Defending Our Professors from the Anti-Intellectuals - 08-12-02
	Civilization, Part II -- Responsibility - 08-05-02
	Civilization, Part I - 07-29-02
	Phil Donahue and the Left and the Right - 07-22-02
	Declaring War - 07-15-02
	American Imams - 07-08-02
	Bold Moves That Just Might Work - 07-01-02
	Can We Build a High Enough Wall? - 06-24-02
	You Can't Have Peace When the Enemy Wants War - 06-17-02
	Being Buddies with the Bad Guys - 06-03-02
	What Bush Should Have Done - 05-20-02
	Two Modest Proposals - 05-13-02
	Making Monsters - 05-06-02
	Lies and Truth - 04-29-02
	Borders Drawn in Blood - 04-22-02
	Is Organized Religion the Enemy? - 04-15-02
	What Causes People to Become Terrorists? - 04-08-02
	April 1, 2002 - 04-01-02
	Anti-Semitism? Nah ... - 03-25-02
	Live with Yasser and Geraldo - 03-11-02
	This Ain't Cops & Robbers - 03-04-02
	Science and Freedom of the Press - 02-25-02
	Nail Clippers, Pinheads, and Weapons of Terror - 02-18-02
	Looking the Other Way - 02-11-02
	The Best in the World Can Still Be Lousy - 02-04-02
	How the World Ends ... - 01-28-02
	Cynical vs. Idealistic - 01-21-02
	American Peace - 01-14-02
	Are We the Bad Guy? - 01-07-02

World Watch - 2001
	The China Nightmare - 12-31-01
	The War Book of the Year - 12-24-01
	What Afghanistan? - 12-17-01
	Jews, Christians, Civilians, and the Qur'an - 12-03-01
	Can America Win the Culture War? - 11-26-01
	Revisionist History - 11-19-01
	What Can Go Wrong - 11-12-01
	Enough Blame to Go Around - 11-05-01
	Why We Should Not Rebuild on the Site of the World Trade Center - 10-29-01
	The American Media and the War - 10-22-01
	Religious Hatred - 10-15-01
	How Will We Know If We Won? - 10-08-01

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