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Latest Articles: Editorial
The Bush Implosion (Robertson's CBN)
Post Date: 2007-06-03 20:52:14 by robin
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The Bush Implosion June 1, 2007 For me, the “canary in the mineshaft” of the Bush administration died at 12:00AM this morning, when the Wall Street Journal posted a piece about the President’s unpopular immigration bill by former Reagan speechwriter and influential Republican Peggy Noonan. Whether you like the immigration bill or not, you cannot deny that it is splitting the GOP. And with this bill, the White House has turned its back on its base in a way that is far more politically risky than the Iraq invasion or anything else it has attempted, and could seal Bush’s place in the history books as a failed president. Understand that Peggy Noonan has been known as a ...
A Week in Iraq
Post Date: 2007-06-03 12:00:37 by tom007
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A Week in Iraq A week by week assessment of significant incidents and trends in Iraqi civilian casualties by Lily Hamourtziadou. The analyses and opinions presented in these commentaries are personal to the author. Email lily@iraqbodycount.org Causes of war States are amoral. The moral values that guide the actions of individuals in our daily lives are not what lies behind state actions. Our moral guide, moral dilemmas, moral questions and principles that make us act in the ways we do, are not among the considerations of a state as it acts in the international arena. States, unlike people, are not moral agents. A state’s decision to go to war is not informed or influenced by moral ...
Apocalypse ASAP
Post Date: 2007-06-02 20:46:26 by BeAChooser
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Apocalypse ASAP By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 4:20 PM PT Iraq: Democratic leaders are making it increasingly clear they'll let nothing prevent the U.S. from losing the war against al-Qaida and other terrorists in Iraq — not even victory. For them, defeat in Iraq cannot come too soon. They are that convinced a failed war blamed on President Bush would be a political gold mine in 2008. As if to prevent anyone in America from starting to think things might be going better in Iraq, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel declared in a visit to the New York Daily News editorial board last week that "the president knows it's ...
The Last of the Texas Outsiders
Post Date: 2007-06-02 14:51:44 by Eoghan
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Ron Paul vs. the Throng Put together Murdoch's Fox News, a mid-May debate between Republican presidential candidates and the state of South Carolina and you have a hotbed of stupidity. But to the fury of the Republican organizers there was an intrusion of rational thought, in the person of Ron Paul, a US congressman from Texas, classed as a rank outsider in the nomination race. Texas used to send true individualists to Washington DC. One of the brightest moments of my early years, visiting the nation's capital, was watching Rep. Wright Patman, head of the House Banking Committee, tell the red-faced chairman of the federal reserve that he deserved to be locked up in the ...
The Voice of the White House 1 June
Post Date: 2007-06-02 09:41:33 by Eoghan
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Washington, D.C., May 31, 2007: “The White House personnel have two private polling companies working for them. The purpose is to get very accurate analysis of public opinion. The usual method is to poll to an idea. That is, if the RNC or the DNC wants a certain impression created, they inform their pollsters that they want to show public approval of something, the pollsters dig out a list of rabid Republicans and poll them with entirely predictable results. As a case in point, about five years ago, a poll showed that only 25% of the American public believed there had been a Holocaust. These results so enraged the Jewish community, who depends on public sympathy for control purposes, ...
Dying for Nothing
Post Date: 2007-06-02 06:33:31 by Zoroaster
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June 2, 2007 Dying for Nothing by Charley Reese I didn't watch any of the Memorial Day events on television. Memorial Day, it seems to me, should be only for the families of the dead. It's really impossible to remember someone we never knew. Of course, these days Memorial Day gets larded with politics and pseudo-patriotism. It's nauseating to watch a bunch of actors, entertainers and politicians who never heard a gun fired in anger put on a maudlin performance as if they really gave a rat's toenail for the dead. The fact is, war is started by old men who never go near the war, and wars are always fought by the young. The king of Belgium once noted that it takes 20 years ...
Rep. Paul and the Founders versus Our Interventionist Elite
Post Date: 2007-06-01 21:06:43 by Brian S
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America’s bipartisan governing elite never expected their common interventionist foreign policy to be damned by a man who has long worked among that august group. But Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) proved himself not only a political maverick, but one of the few elected federal officials who still prizes – indeed, treasures is a better word – his status as an American citizen. Rep. Paul does not view himself as a citizen of the world who deems unrelenting U.S. intervention abroad as the acceptable price the world demands of America for this higher form of citizenship. Rep. Paul rejects that price, which is, of course, enormously expensive in monetary terms, as well as in terms of ...
RON PAUL BLASTS THE FEDERAL RESERVE
Post Date: 2007-06-01 14:19:31 by gengis gandhi
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RON PAUL BLASTS THE FEDERAL RESERVE Posted By: Curious Date: Thursday, 31 May 2007, 1:58 p.m. As more and more people in the United States learn about Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), they are absolutely stunned that anyone elected to the U.S. Congress could actually NOT be a paid puppet of the lobbyists. When you hear Dr. Paul speak on the U.S. Federal Reserve, you will find that he is absolutely aligned with the same principles espoused and intended by the founding fathers of the United States. The Federal Reserve System is actually the cause of inflation and one of the primary reasons why your financial future is unstable, insecure, and likely to include inflations, recessions and ...
Israel's 9 Ways of Apartheid: (Part 1 in a Series)
Post Date: 2007-06-01 10:30:04 by ...
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"An apartheid society is much more than just a ‘settler colony’. It involves specific forms of oppression that actively strip the original inhabitants of any rights at all, whereas civilian members of the invader caste are given all kinds of sumptuous privileges." [1] In June 2005, this reporter interviewed a young American Jew, who moved to Israel because of the incentives of Aliyah: "Aliyah means ‘going up,’ and this deal was hard to pass by. I get fifteen hundred shekels or about thirty-six hundred dollars a year in increments to help with my expenses. I can apply for unemployment benefits after seven months, as long as I look for a job. "I ...
WHEN ILLEGALS GO BERSERK WILL YOUR STATE BE PREPARED?
Post Date: 2007-06-01 08:30:14 by Eoghan
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"We have an aging white America ... They are dying ...We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him." Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of the La Raza Unida political party In my March 13, 2006, column I wrote about the 100,000 criminals (illegal aliens, not immigrants) who brazenly marched through the streets of Chicago without fear of being rounded up and deported. On March 17, 2006, an estimated 25,000 illegals from Ireland marched boldly in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in NY without fear of any enforcement of our immigration laws. I told my friends at the ...
Iraqis surge
Post Date: 2007-06-01 03:53:44 by nolu_chan
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Charleston Daily Mail (WV) Charleston, West Virginia http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/ Iraqis surge May 31st, 2007 by donsurber Great news out of Baghdad from AP (which has noticeably improved its Iraqi coverage since it stopped quoting “Capt. Jamil Hussein.”): “Iraq Residents Rise Up Against al-Qaida.” It is about time. Look, this is Iraq, not Poca. The Iraqis have to start taking responsibility. [snip]
50 More Years in Iraq? (GW Bush Proposal )
Post Date: 2007-06-01 00:00:21 by tom007
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50 More Years in Iraq? By Dan Froomkin Special to http://washingtonpost.com Thursday, May 31, 2007; 12:52 PM The White House, long irritated by the frequent use of Vietnam as a metaphor for Iraq, embraced its own analogy yesterday: South Korea. There's an undeniable attraction to holding up America's military presence in South Korea as a model for Iraq: Our soldiers stationed there aren't dying in large numbers every month. White House Watch 50 More Years in Iraq? (More see link) Bush Fears for Nation's Soul Fitzgerald Again Points to Cheney Warnings of Chaos Ignored Failing to Reassure More News Michael Gerson: A Big Enough Stick for Sudan Robert J. Samuelson: A ...
Real torture ignored, fake torture flogged
Post Date: 2007-05-31 22:36:27 by BeAChooser
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Real torture ignored, fake torture flogged The news media is the spoiled brat of the United States IF you know about the torture manual used by al-Qaida, then you did not learn about it by reading the Washington Post, the New York Times or sadly, this newspaper. Neither the Associated Press nor Reuters picked up on the story. Fox News was the only major outlet with the story. Sir Rupert Murdoch's newspapers in Australia republished the Fox report. The handbook was posted at the Smoking Gun Web site. It showed -- with drawings -- how al-Qaida uses drills, irons, vises and other devices to mutilate their captives. This is true torture, the same kind employed by Saddam Hussein's ...
Was the 17th Amendment strictly forbidden?
Post Date: 2007-05-31 21:23:47 by Dakmar
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Article 1 Section 4. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.
Poster Comment:Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I take this to mean that the FF meant that Senators must always be chosen by State legislatures, as described in Article 1, Section 3:Section 3. "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote."And, finally, the 17th ...
Georgie Anne Geyer: A spreading terror: Iraq now set up as a school for insurgents ready to be exported
Post Date: 2007-05-31 14:22:48 by aristeides
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Georgie Anne Geyer: A spreading terror Iraq now set up as a school for insurgents ready to be exported 11:44 AM CDT on Thursday, May 31, 2007 Anyone who knows anything about cancer knows that the danger point comes when the cancer suddenly and unexpectedly appears in another supposedly "clean" part of the body. As when, say, breast cancer, an implacable traveler, reappears in the bloodstream or the bones. That there are stunning similarities between what happens medically in the body of man and what occurs sociologically and militarily in the societies of men is far less noticed – but just as frightening and dangerous. Think of what has happened in only the last week in ...
Appropriate Disillusionment: The Despair of Cindy Sheehan and Andrew Bracevich
Post Date: 2007-05-31 13:57:42 by aristeides
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Appropriate Disillusionment The Despair of Cindy Sheehan and Andrew Bracevich By GARY LEUPP I have in front of me two documents of despair, of disillusionment with the American political system that allows this criminal war to continue. Andrew J. Bacevich in his Washington Post op-ed column and Cindy Sheehan in her statement on her blog express despair over the failure of the Democrats placed in power by an antiwar electorate to take firm measures to end the war in Iraq. Sheehan declares, as she announces her departure from the spotlight that "hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a war based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike," adding, "It ...
I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose. We Were Both Doing Our Duty.
Post Date: 2007-05-31 12:04:41 by aristeides
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I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose. We Were Both Doing Our Duty. By Andrew J. Bacevich Sunday, May 27, 2007; Page B01 Parents who lose children, whether through accident or illness, inevitably wonder what they could have done to prevent their loss. When my son was killed in Iraq earlier this month at age 27, I found myself pondering my responsibility for his death. Among the hundreds of messages that my wife and I have received, two bore directly on this question. Both held me personally culpable, insisting that my public opposition to the war had provided aid and comfort to the enemy. Each said that my son's death came as a direct result of my antiwar writings. This may seem a vile ...
Democracy = Terrorism?
Post Date: 2007-05-31 01:02:50 by Max
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Democracy = Terrorism? One would immediately assume that to equate democracy with terrorism would be a contradiction in terms. Terrorism is described as the unnecessary use of violence in order to achieve an aim, whereas democracy is about peaceful and collective participation in the law-making process and is therefore a diplomatic and non-violent means to achieve an aim, or so we would assume. Democracy is a concept that has become a standard for the world today according to which, everyone is expected to lead their lives. People are led to believe that democracy is the modern, progressive and ‘civilised' way to look after the affairs of society. They are made to believe that ...
We've Got It, Cindy Sheehan
Post Date: 2007-05-30 19:11:36 by BeAChooser
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We've Got It, Cindy Sheehan Ward Carroll | May 29, 2007 Cindy Sheehan spent part of her Memorial Day posting a farewell of sorts at the Daily Kos. That's right - the grieving mother who morphed into an anti-war icon is exiting the stage. "I have spent every available cent I got from the money a 'grateful' country gave me when they killed my son and every penny that I have received in speaking or book fees since then," Sheehan writes. "I have sacrificed a 29 year marriage and have traveled for extended periods of time away from Casey's brother and sisters and my health has suffered and my hospital bills from last summer (when I almost died) are in ...
The Case for Bombing Iran: I hope and pray that President Bush will do it. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-05-30 18:57:05 by BeAChooser
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The Case for Bombing Iran: I hope and pray that President Bush will do it. BY NORMAN PODHORETZ Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT Although many persist in denying it, I continue to believe that what Sept 11, 2001, did was to plunge us headlong into nothing less than another world war. I call this new war World War IV, because I also believe that what is generally known as the Cold War was actually World War III, and that this one bears a closer resemblance to that great conflict than it does to World War II. Like the Cold War, as the military historian Eliot Cohen was the first to recognize, the one we are now in has ideological roots, pitting us against Islamofascism, yet another ...
Lesson of Algeria is lost on Bush
Post Date: 2007-05-30 15:20:10 by aristeides
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Lesson of Algeria is lost on Bush When a high-ranking French leader suggested in a private meeting that President George W. Bush consider Algeria as a model for a staged disengagement from Iraq, the president reportedly listened, no doubt with that dazed attention span of a windshield wiper. Bush was said to have assured his European petitioner that he just happened to be finishing a book on the Algerian War. When told of this exchange, I raised a chuckle from my French source by declaring that Bush surely was not reading Camus on Algeria. (Rumors have circulated that Bush recently read Camus' "The Stranger.") The book that the president read on the Algerian War, it turns ...
The GOP would be wise to listen to Ron Paul's message
Post Date: 2007-05-30 04:23:45 by mirage
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Two-thirds of Americans can now see that starting a war in Iraq was a mistake. The majority of Republicans still do not see it. Eventually they will, but it's hard to go against their own president unless one of their own makes them do it. That may be the usefulness of Rep. Ron Paul. There is no way this libertarian medical doctor from Texas is going to win the Republican nomination. His strict noninterventionist policy is too radical a change for Republicans. But on foreign policy the Republican Party could use a dose of criticism that gets to the root of things, and that is what Paul has to offer. Paul says his party will lose the presidency in 2008 if they are still supporting the ...
Tom007 report ( I am heaving weeping as I post) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-05-29 23:29:04 by tom007
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Adam just got out of surgery and things were not as good as we had hoped. The skin grafts were not healing on his buttocks and turns out he took a nasty piece of shrapnal through the right butt cheek and it left a tube of a wound which is not healing. The surgeon took pretty much all of his right butt cheek off but did not have to go to bone. Adam will have to have a colostomy bag put in place on Thursday but only as a way to prevent contamination to the wound. The surgeon thinks he will only need it 6-12 months. Hopefully this will help him conquer the fever. Tomorrow we will find out how the arm burns are doing but right now not much hope for saving his fingers. The good news, the lower ...
Why the Right Wing Needs Hillary
Post Date: 2007-05-29 18:48:46 by aristeides
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Why the Right Wing Needs Hillary Conservatives are obsessing over Hillary Clinton even more than Democrats are. She's all they see when they look at the Democratic smorgasbord, they dismiss Obama. Conservatives secretly want Hillary to become President because that will fulfill their worldview, that p.c. liberals are trying to take over American culture, and give them focus and a reason to live again. She will be their grindstone and idee fixe, and witch and bitch. It reminds me of 1980, when I was a reporter in Philadelphia and asked my boss (Zach Stalberg) whether he was for Carter or Reagan. "Well I'm voting for Carter," he said drearily. Then his eyes gleamed. ...
The Significance of Rudy Giuliani
Post Date: 2007-05-29 06:42:51 by Ada
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Some months ago, I wrote an article for LRC where I discussed a new and uniquely subtle form of totalitarianism that has begun to develop in the Western world in recent decades and has found its way into the highest echelons of the modern democracies. For the sake of brevity, I will simply provide this link to my previous article rather than attempt to provide a comprehensive discussion of this alarming development once again. Suffice to say, the new totalitarianism that is alternately called by the names of "political correctness," "cultural Marxism," "multiculturalism," "totalitarian humanism" or (my preference) "liberal-nazism," continues ...
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