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- Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Gainesville, Georgia
Archive By Author - Tom Nichols
Nichols: Congress’ current health plan won’t cut costs
As I recovered from a knee replacement surgery in the beautiful north tower of our Northeast Georgia Medical Center, and later in a week in a rehabilitation facility and then my home, I had lots of time to think about the health care insurance proposal from President Barack Obama now being considered by the House of Representatives. I realize we also need to see the version to be considered by the Senate ...
Nichols: Reunions connect families in love
I believe that family structures are the building blocks for all societies, here and in other countries as well. We live in a fast-changing world with so many things in our lives that seem to be just happening beyond our ability to control or avoid. Families give us an anchor that can tie the present with our personal history in the past.
Nichols: We all carry our turtle shells with us
During congressional hearings concerning Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to be a justice on the Supreme Court, we had an interesting exchange of ideas over lunch. Two of my friends were very concerned that Sotomayor might rule in future cases based upon her personal values and not the law itself. That is a valid concern. After all, justice is supposed to be blind.
Nichols: Let’s hope Korean conflict doesn’t flare up again
Recently on our way back to Gainesville from the gymnastics camp in Athens, my granddaughter asked me, "why did the U.S. get involved in the Korean War?" In her history class, she had studied other recent wars fought by our military, but that study did not include Korea.
Nichols: Businesses focus on profits, politicians on losses
Although socialism promises to be a better system than capitalism, does it actually provide more benefits than a free market system that is based mostly on privately owned and managed institutions?
Nichols: Seeds of socialism sown by industrial revolution
A question being discussed in classrooms and living rooms across the nation is this: Is America on a path to socialism?
Nichols: US-Cuba relations always tense over Gitmo
The United States' oldest overseas military post, Guantanamo Naval Base (or "Gitmo") on the southeastern coast of Cuba, does not rest on property belonging to the United States. The actual owner of that territory legally is Cuba. We rent it from Cuba at a cost of $2,000 per year, according to the Lease Agreement signed in 1903.
Nichols: Home, sweet home in Gainesville
On May 30, 2000, my younger sister, her husband, and I drove into Gainesville. My moving van coming down from Pennsylvania had not arrived. So the three of us spent our first night in Gainesville sleeping on air mattresses in an otherwise empty home that I had bought the year before when I saw a house with two good features.
Nichols: There’s nothing romantic about pirates
Last month, President Barack Obama gave the command for the Navy Seals to use force to rescue Capt. Richard Phillips from four pirates in the waters off Somalia. They succeeded.
Nichols: Living with Parkinson’s is a challenge
Life is a staircase with a number of landings where you stop climbing and just rest before continuing the journey of living.
Nichols: Piracy still is hard to control on open seas
A country has sovereign powers to govern by law the land of its territory, the airspace above that land, and the seas along its coasts out to a limit of 12 nautical miles. Earlier the sea limits were set at three nautical miles because that was the distance a cannon on the beach could fire.
Nichols: Art, politics go hand in hand through history
The main symbols of the two political parties in the U.S. are the donkey for the Democratic Party and the elephant for the Republican Party. Both appear to have been made popular by political cartoonist Thomas Nast in the 1870s.
Nichols: Breakup of business giants could help economy
Without doubt, we are at one of the most critical points in our nation's history. How we deal with our current economic crisis will define our identity both now and in the future.
Nichols: How do we end a war against shadowy forces?
It is easy to start a war by invading or dropping bombs, as the Japanese did on Pearl Harbor. Ending a war is more difficult. A country may choose to stop hostilities and retreat, but then the other side can claim victory. Perhaps the best way to end a war is to negotiate a peace treaty, but that can be difficult and have unintended results.
Nichols: US can learn from Germany’s economic crisis in 1920s
Is the economic crisis in the United States today similar to that of Weimar Germany in the 1920s?
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