Sunday, July 27, 2008

John Paul II's Journey via His Encyclicals

Encyclicals by Pope John Paul II:

1. Where are you coming from?
REDEMPTOR HOMINIS

2. Where are you wanting to go?
DIVES IN MISERICORDIA

3. What are you waiting for?
LABOREM EXERCENS

4. What are your wise ones generally advising?
SLAVORUM APOSTOLI

5. What are the pros and cons of the issue?
DOMINUM ET VIVIFICANTEM

6. What are the "Powers That Be" saying?
REDEMPTORIS MATER

7. What is your real agenda?
SOLLICITUDO REI SOCIALIS

8. What are the facts and reasons you are contending with?
REDEMPTORIS MISSIO

9. What insights and oversights are emerging?
CENTESIMUS ANNUS
VERITATIS SPLENDOR

10. How are you telling the story of your decision?
EVANGELIUM VITAE

11. What are you willing to risk to gain what you can only be hoping for?
UT UNUM SINT
FIDES ET RATIO

12. How are you determining that the decision you discern is the right one?
ECCLESIA DE EUCHARISTIA
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Friday, July 25, 2008

World Population Pie Chart



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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Issues & Opinions: A Cosmopolitan Perspective?

My question is this: Whether, in an effort to develop a cosmopolitan perspective on issues and opinions beyond the "facts" we are inundated with, I should add any other opinion pages from free Internet-accessible sites than the following?

Thanks in advance for your recommendations.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Speeches by and for Decision-Makers

Top 100 speeches from and according to American Rhetoric:

Rank, Speaker, Title/Text, Audio:

  1. Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have A Dream" mp3
  2. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural Address mp3
  3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Inaugural Address mp3
  4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation mp3
  5. Barbara Charline Jordan 1976 DNC Keynote Address mp3
  6. Richard Milhous Nixon "Checkers" mp3
  7. Malcolm X "The Ballot or the Bullet" mp3
  8. Ronald Wilson Reagan Shuttle ''Challenger'' Disaster Address mp3
  9. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Houston Ministerial Association Speech mp3
  10. Lyndon Baines Johnson "We Shall Overcome" mp3
  11. Mario Matthew Cuomo 1984 DNC Keynote Address mp3
  12. Jesse Louis Jackson 1984 DNC Address mp3
  13. Barbara Charline Jordan Statement on the Articles of Impeachment mp3
  14. General Douglas MacArthur Farewell Address to Congress mp3
  15. Martin Luther King, Jr. "I've Been to the Mountaintop" mp3
  16. Theodore Roosevelt "The Man with the Muck-rake"
  17. Robert Francis Kennedy Remarks on the Assassination of MLK mp3
  18. Dwight David Eisenhower Farewell Address mp3
  19. Thomas Woodrow Wilson War Message
  20. General Douglas MacArthur "Duty, Honor, Country" mp3
  21. Richard Milhous Nixon "The Great Silent Majority" mp3
  22. John Fitzgerald Kennedy "Ich bin ein Berliner" mp3
  23. Clarence Seward Darrow "Mercy for Leopold and Loeb"
  24. Russell H. Conwell "Acres of Diamonds" mp3
  25. Ronald Wilson Reagan Time for Choosing" mp3
  26. Huey Pierce Long "Every Man a King"
  27. Anna Howard Shaw "The Fundamental Principle of a Republic"
  28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt "The Arsenal of Democracy" mp3
  29. Ronald Wilson Reagan "The Evil Empire" mp3
  30. Ronald Wilson Reagan First Inaugural Address mp3
  31. Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Fireside Chat mp3
  32. Harry S. Truman "The Truman Doctrine" mp3
  33. William Cuthbert Faulkner Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech mp3
  34. Eugene Victor Debs 1918 Statement to the Court
  35. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton "Women's Rights are Human Rights" mp3
  36. Dwight David Eisenhower "Atoms for Peace" mp3
  37. John Fitzgerald Kennedy American University Commencement Address mp3
  38. Dorothy Ann Willis Richards 1988 DNC Keynote Address mp3
  39. Richard Milhous Nixon Resignation Speech mp3
  40. Thomas Woodrow Wilson "The Fourteen Points"
  41. Margaret Chase Smith "Declaration of Conscience"
  42. Franklin Delano Roosevelt "The Four Freedoms" mp3
  43. Martin Luther King, Jr. "A Time to Break Silence" mp3
  44. Mary Church Terrell "What it Means to be Colored in the...U.S."
  45. William Jennings Bryan "Against Imperialism" mp3
  46. Margaret Higgins Sanger "The Morality of Birth Control"
  47. Barbara Pierce Bush 1990 Wellesley College Commencement Address mp3
  48. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Civil Rights Address mp3
  49. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis Address mp3
  50. Spiro Theodore Agnew "Television News Coverage" mp3
  51. Jesse Louis Jackson 1988 DNC Address mp3.1 mp3.2
  52. Mary Fisher "A Whisper of AIDS" mp3
  53. Lyndon Baines Johnson "The Great Society" mp3
  54. George Catlett Marshall "The Marshall Plan" mp3
  55. Edward Moore Kennedy "Truth and Tolerance in America" mp3
  56. Adlai Ewing Stevenson Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address mp3
  57. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt "The Struggle for Human Rights"
  58. Geraldine Anne Ferraro Vice-Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech mp3
  59. Robert Marion La Follette "Free Speech in Wartime"
  60. Ronald Wilson Reagan 40th Anniversary of D-Day Address mp3
  61. Mario Matthew Cuomo "Religious Belief and Public Morality" mp3
  62. Edward Moore Kennedy "Chappaquiddick" mp3
  63. John Llewellyn Lewis "The Rights of Labor"
  64. Barry Morris Goldwater Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address mp3
  65. Stokely Carmichael "Black Power" mp3
  66. Hubert Horatio Humphrey 1948 DNC Address Off-site Audio
  67. Emma Goldman Address to the Jury
  68. Carrie Chapman Catt "The Crisis"
  69. Newton Norman Minow "Television and the Public Interest" mp3
  70. Edward Moore Kennedy Eulogy for Robert Francis Kennedy mp3
  71. Anita Faye Hill Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee mp3
  72. Thomas Woodrow Wilson League of Nations Final Address
  73. Henry Louis ("Lou") Gehrig Farewell to Baseball Address mp3
  74. Richard Milhous Nixon Cambodian Incursion Address mp3
  75. Carrie Chapman Catt Address to the U.S. Congress
  76. Edward Moore Kennedy 1980 DNC Address mp3
  77. Lyndon Baines Johnson On Vietnam and Not Seeking Re-Election mp3
  78. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Commonwealth Club Address
  79. Thomas Woodrow Wilson First Inaugural Address
  80. Mario Savio "Sproul Hall Sit-in Speech/An End to History" mp3
  81. Elizabeth Glaser 1992 DNC Address mp3
  82. Eugene Victor Debs "The Issue"
  83. Margaret Higgins Sanger "The Children's Era"
  84. Ursula Le Guin "A Left-Handed Commencement Address"
  85. Crystal Eastman "Now We Can Begin"
  86. Huey Pierce Long "Share Our Wealth"
  87. Gerald Rudolph Ford Address on Taking the Oath of Office mp3
  88. Cesar Estrada Chavez Speech on Ending His 25 Day Fast
  89. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Statement at the Smith Act Trial
  90. Jimmy Earl Carter "A Crisis of Confidence" mp3
  91. Malcolm X "Message to the Grassroots" mp3
  92. William Jefferson Clinton Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address mp3
  93. Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm "For the Equal Rights Amendment"
  94. Ronald Wilson Reagan Brandenburg Gate Address mp3
  95. Eliezer ("Elie") Wiesel "The Perils of Indifference" mp3
  96. Gerald Rudolph Ford National Address Pardoning Richard M. Nixon mp3
  97. Thomas Woodrow Wilson "For the League of Nations"
  98. Lyndon Baines Johnson "Let Us Continue" mp3
  99. Joseph N. Welch "Have You No Sense of Decency" mp3
  100. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Adopting the Declaration of Human Rights mp3
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Philosophers for Decision-Makers (Alphabetical)

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Philosophers for Decision-Makers

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2.

3.

  • The Linguistic Philosophers
  • Wittgentstein

4.

5.

  • Copernicus
  • Tycho Brahe
  • William of Ockham
  • Duns Scotus
  • The Analytic Philosophers
  • Frege
  • Russell
  • Whitehead
  • The Stoics
  • The Skeptics
  • The Cynics
  • The Epicureans
    Epicurus
  • The Utilitarians
    Bentham
    John Stuart Mill
  • The Pragmatists
    William James
    John Dewey

6.

  • Machiavelli
  • Hobbes
  • Locke
  • Voltaire
  • Rousseau
  • Burke
  • Marx

7.

  • DesCartes
  • Spinoza
  • Leibniz
  • Berkeley
  • Hume
  • Freud
  • Jung
  • Adler
  • Kunkel
  • Sanford

8.

  • Francis Bacon
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Isaac Newton
  • Kant
  • Schopenhauer
  • Fichte
  • Hegel
  • Heidegger
  • Husserl
  • Bergson

9.

10.

  • Diderot
  • Frederick Copleston

11.

  • Einstein
  • Heisenberg
  • Schrodinger


12.

  • Pieper
  • Kreeft
  • Lonergan
  • Dunne
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Sunday, July 6, 2008

Music for Decision-Makers (Alphabetical)

Below is an alphabetized list of the linked music videos organized along the Decision-Maker's Path at Music for Decision-Makers.

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