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Miguel A. Guanipa

Miguel Guanipa is a freelance journalist.

Most Recent Articles by Miguel A. Guanipa:

The Religion Vote

I do not feel that I am alone is suspecting that most politicians, pundits, and even some theologians are loath to venture a guess as to what demographic group is being referred to when the media insouciantly bandies about the phrase “The Religion Vote”. Still my curiosity was picked when I heard that Obama and McCain were earnestly infusing their campaign strategies with pointed initiatives to court the nebulous amalgam of voters presumably enveloped in this alleged, all-inclusive compendium.
- Saturday, August 30, 2008



Obama and the “Image Thing”

At a fundamental level, elections hinge upon the most trusted intuitions voters have about their candidate’s character. In most cases these intuitions are seldom aligned with the truth, as they are loosely based on external appearances and whatever the media chooses to put on its daily feed.
- Friday, July 4, 2008

Einstein, God, and the Religious Experience

Gather up all of the collected works penned by the late Pope John Paul II and the sheer volume of information contained in his manuscripts should yield a definitive answer to the question: Was the Pope Catholic?
- Saturday, June 28, 2008

Obama and the Maturing Presidency

Many a progressive pundit, stunned and mystified by the re-election of George W. Bush, opted to concede on the self-reassuring premise that Bush’s mysterious appeal had nothing to do with the fledgling charisma of the untried president many knew prior to the cowardly attacks perpetrated by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001. Some believe that it wasn’t until after we were attacked that President Bush came into his own; in other words, he grew up.
- Monday, June 23, 2008

The Global Warming Scare

These days it is almost considered a punishable offense to cast doubt on the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming; but if there is such a thing, it logically follows that its alleged dire consequences would have to be, well, global.
- Monday, June 16, 2008

Ahmadinejad and the Erratic Mind of the Democrat Voter

If you listened to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he periodically declares that the state of Israel will soon disappear, you’d think he’s either forgotten to take his allotted dosage of lithium for that day, or that he is about to perform some sort of David Copperfield magic trick.
- Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Peter Singer and Human Dignity

Whenever the fervent advocate of infanticide Peter Singer finds enough leisure time to muse upon any current moral issue, he invariably reserves enough space to declare his perpetual enmity against the proverbial thorn in his flesh that the Christian Religion has become.
- Saturday, May 31, 2008

Hillary’s All or Nothing.

It must be devastating for Hillary Rhodam Clinton to see her chances of becoming the democratic nominee fade into oblivion. It has to be beyond infuriating to have the media - that once so blindly worshipped and adored her mischievous better half - turn on her and declare with such confidence that the die is cast, and hers is now an unstoppable plunge into defeat, no less to a country that, as far as she is concerned, has not yet had the final word.
- Sunday, May 11, 2008

The Birds, the Bees, and Aliza Shvarts

One day, perhaps not unlike today, Aliza Shvarts woke up and had an epiphany; she had finally settled on a theme for her Senior Year art project.
- Thursday, May 8, 2008

The Project

The folks at NEST (New and Emerging Science and Technology) must have been in God’s mind when He confounded the language of Babel’s over-ambitious citizens, as they tried to build a tower that would reach up to his very abode.
- Thursday, April 10, 2008

Lessons from the Father

Jesus, the master story teller, once told the story of the younger of two sons, who asks his father to give him the full disbursement amount of whatever inheritance he had coming to him, as he wished to leave and find his way in the world.
- Saturday, March 29, 2008

Obama’s Achilles’ Heel

When Obama last exposed his Achilles’ heel, it happened inadvertently and without warning, amidst a fawning crowd of regulars upon whom a mighty spell had fallen.
- Tuesday, March 11, 2008


Only a Dream

I remember waking up that morning, the full breadth of deep emotions evoked by a dream that had just ended, still aflame in my bosom.
- Saturday, February 16, 2008

The Bizarre Activism of Kurt Daims

One look at Mr. Kurt Daims and it is not unreasonable to assume that he is a militant devotee of his homeland’s progressive jihad.
- Wednesday, February 6, 2008


Hillary, Bonhoeffer, and the Meaning of Truth

On his seminal work on Ethics the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that “it is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to tell a lie.
- Tuesday, December 18, 2007

The End of a Debate

It is hard to envision anything other than the current dual-party template configuring this country’s political landscape anytime in the foreseeable future. For all intents and purposes, the Democratic and Republican parties are here to stay. And save for the few nominal party members who on occasion stray from their presumed ideological bearings, each party is correspondingly beholden – admittedly in somewhat reductive yet not wholly inaccurate characterizations - to its respective ideology; namely the liberal (benignly dubbed “progressive”) and the conservative ideologies.
- Monday, December 10, 2007

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