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Latest Articles: Editorial
Goodbye to love
Post Date: 2007-04-11 23:04:44 by tom007
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How the Bush Administration Destabilized the the 'Arc of Instability'
Post Date: 2007-04-11 10:50:38 by robin
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Six Crises in Search of an Author
How the Bush Administration Destabilized the "Arc of Instability"
By Tom Engelhardt
One night when I was in my teens, I found myself at a production of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. I had never heard of the playwright or the play, nor had I seen a play performed in the round. The actors were dramatically entering and exiting in the aisles when, suddenly, a man stood up in the audience, proclaimed himself a seventh character in search of an author, and demanded the same attention as the other six. At the time, I assumed the unruly "seventh character" was just part of the play, even after he was summarily ejected from the ...
The Voice of the White House (April 9)
Post Date: 2007-04-11 10:48:36 by robin
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The Voice of the White House Washington, D.C., April 9, 2007: “Aside from the building and very serious tension between a fanatic Bush and a growingly furious Congress, the real news here is the slaughter of our troops in Iraq. With many units sent over there without proper equipment or armor and, in many cases, no training whatsoever in combat, the Iraqi resistance people are wreaking havoc on the inexperienced men. The idiot Bush plan has been to rush as many new troops as possible to Baghdad, kill all the resistance people they can find, terrorize the locals and then, declare peace and pull out. That’s fine except for one thing: They forgot to get permission from the ...
Somone Else Always Loses: The Demographics of Political Correctness, Racism, and Reverse Discrimination
Post Date: 2007-04-11 01:02:43 by IndieTX
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We are told by those who garnish media coverage with their wealth and political status that race no longer matters. All people are the same. All are created equal. Differences are the figments of racist imaginations and unstable minds. While this socialist ideal seems altruistic, this ideal is an obvious challenge to some with a different personal or religious interpretation of "created equal" and its relevance or social reality based on their experiences. [In other words, some believe that "differences" in people are envoronmentally based, and others believe people start with different "codes." Since this is not the point of this article, I will not seek to ...
II DIVO (Haunting Beautiful video)
Post Date: 2007-04-10 23:14:53 by tom007
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Pat Buchanan's Double-Dealing
Post Date: 2007-04-10 18:12:03 by Eoghan
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Recurring mental illness plagues the Republican pundit as evidenced by his column on the Democrats' response to the Iraq War Pat Buchanan is a textbook double-mind. He can wax eloquent one moment with scintillating commonsense, and with his next breath deflate his entire case with the most glittering schizophrenia this side of Bedlam. The wisdom of the New Testament teaches that "The double-minded man is unstable in all his ways." The double-minded man can't fight effectively, can't keep his word, can't be trusted. In his column of April 10, "What a Lack of Courage Cost" (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55113) Mr. Buchanan ...
What Do Muslims Want? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-04-10 03:29:47 by mirage
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All humans generally live according to some set of priorities. A person may make a priority of health, of pleasure, of study, of almost anything, really. But it is practically a law of nature that a person must make a priority of something. Even those who lead unstructured existences unconsciously live according to some set of unarticulated priorities, if only according to something so basic as the primal need for food, drink, and shelter. For many people, religious practice — striving to obey God’s commandments — is a high priority, the highest, even. Yet this priority can come into conflict with the character of the society in which one lives. This is undoubtedly the case ...
HAVE CHRISTIANS BECOME DUPES
Post Date: 2007-04-09 18:28:20 by Nostalgia
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As I peruse the hundreds of email letters I receive, one observation leaps out at me: in the last few years, there has been a distinct philosophical shift taking place in the reasoning of professing Christians. Somewhere along the way, politicians seem to have been granted a kind of spiritual status. This trend is very troubling and portends great problems for our country. Let me see if I can explain. Whenever I take issue with the policies or actions of President George W. Bush, I am inundated with all kinds of emails from Christians who usually tend to quote Bible passages regarding "spreading gossip" and "not loving a Christian brother," etc. The same is true when I ...
Iraqi details 'shocking' U.S. missteps
Post Date: 2007-04-08 20:36:09 by tom007
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Iraqi details 'shocking' U.S. missteps By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent 1 hour, 35 minutes ago NEW YORK - In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupation's "shocking" mismanagement of his country — a performance so bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had "turned their backs on their would-be liberators." ADVERTISEMENT "The corroded and corrupt state of Saddam was replaced by the corroded, inefficient, incompetent and corrupt state of the new order," Ali A. Allawi concludes in "The Occupation of Iraq," newly published by Yale University Press. Allawi ...
An iPod for every kid? Are they !#$!ing idiots?
Post Date: 2007-04-08 01:40:24 by mirage
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We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that has passed the $1 billion mark, House Democrats Thursday offered a spending plan that would buy a MP3 player or iPod for every school child in Michigan. No cost estimate was attached to their hare-brained idea to "invest" in education. Details, we are promised, will follow. The Democrats, led by their increasingly erratic speaker Andy Dillon of Redford Township, also pledge $100 million to make better downtowns. Their plan goes beyond cluelessness. Democrats are either entirely indifferent to the idea that extreme hard times demand ...
Saudi King 'mistaken' over legality of US troops in Iraq: Bolton
Post Date: 2007-04-07 21:10:33 by tom007
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Saudi King 'mistaken' over legality of US troops in Iraq: Bolton Fri Apr 6, 11:41 AM ET DUBAI (AFP) - Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said Friday that Saudi's King Abdullah was "mistaken" when he questioned the legality of the US military presence in Iraq and should "correct" his controversial remarks on the matter. ADVERTISEMENT "With all due respect to the King, it's a mistake to characterise the US presence in Iraq as illegal," Bolton said in an interview with the US-based Arabic language Al-Hurra television station. King Abdullah, a key ally of Washington in the Middle East, described the US occupation of Iraq as ...
Conservatives Love to Fantasize About Their Own Persecution and Subversiveness [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-04-06 22:48:45 by ...
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I was watching Scarborough Country on MSNBC the other day. He seemed to suggest that he thinks Christians are being persecuted. That got me thinking about a larger issue. Why is it that conservatives love to revel in fantasies of their own marginality and persecution? Why is it they have these persecution fantasies? You don't just notice this with the religious right. You notice this amongst all varieties of social conservative. "Christians" think they are being persecuted by evil secularists who run everything from Wal-Mart to the courts. People who oppose gay rights think they are continuously looked down upon, and their views are constantly under assault by, the "gay ...
Fear and Loathing in Freeperville
Post Date: 2007-04-06 22:17:19 by ...
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I recently returned to online activities after a ninety day 'vacation'. I decided to see some new country, so I created a Free Republic login, and what I found in the day and a half my login survived ... has interesting implications for the 2008 elections. We've seen the 43%/43% Democratic/Republican split shift to a 50%/35% split and after just a day with the FReepers I'm sure that trend is going to continue. In fact, I think we can help it along ... First, a little background. I washed in here on the rising tide of the 2006 midterm elections. I'd been a registered Republican (RKBA, people, RKBA) until the 2004 election. I'm not sure if it was Swift Boater slime ...
Buchanan: Magnanimous Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Post Date: 2007-04-06 21:38:21 by Brian S
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The Easter pardon by Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the 15 British sailors and Marines, seized by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in waters off the Iraqi coast two weeks ago, ends the crisis. And as the beaming smile of President Ahmadinejad while he graciously accepted apologies from the sailors and Marines testifies, there is no doubt as to who won the showdown. Among Iranians, for whom love of the Brits is an acquired taste, Ahmadinejad is the victor. His position inside Iran, a subject of speculation, is surely stronger today. But his victory and that of the Revolutionary Guards comes at a cost to Iran, which showed itself to be a state willing to engage in hostage-taking and show ...
A Provocation Backfires; Were the Brits ginning up a pretext for war in the Gulf?
Post Date: 2007-04-06 19:57:13 by Brian S
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The release of the 15 British sailors and marines by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – whose sense of showmanship was really on display here – was widely described as "bizarre" in the Western media, and yet analysts – including those hostile to Iran – are claiming it was a victory for the Iranians, and a humiliation for Britain. So – which is it? This entire incident has been extremely odd, alright, but it isn't the Iranians who made it so. The behavior of the captured Brits is what struck me as truly bizarre. After all, two of them went on Iranian television, and, standing in front of a map, pointed out precisely where they were picked up by ...
An Administration's Epic Collapse
Post Date: 2007-04-06 11:26:47 by Brian S
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The first three months of the new Democratic Congress have been neither terrible nor transcendent. A Pew poll had it about right: a substantial majority of the public remains happy the Democrats won in 2006, but neither Nancy Pelosi nor Harry Reid has dominated the public consciousness as Newt Gingrich did when the Republicans came to power in 1995. There is a reason for that. A much bigger story is unfolding: the epic collapse of the Bush Administration. The three big Bush stories of 2007--the decision to "surge" in Iraq, the scandalous treatment of wounded veterans at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys for tawdry political ...
Ratcheting up the pressure [On Bush and His Iraq Fiasco]
Post Date: 2007-04-05 14:26:38 by ...
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did a great job getting the supplemental spending bill through the Senate last week. We were able to pass a bill with tough, binding language that forces the President to begin redeploying our troops from Iraq in 120 days. But our work is far from over – we have got to keep pushing to end the terrible mistake in Iraq. That next step has got to be Congress using its power of the purse to end the war. * Senator Russ Feingold's diary :: :: * I was extremely pleased to announce the Feingold/Reid bill this week, which many of you may already know something about. When the Senate reconvenes next week, we will introduce legislation that uses ...
There is no war on terrorism
Post Date: 2007-04-05 10:26:44 by christine
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All the stories we see in the TV news, print and Internet media today are like mice in a small room occupied by a grizzly bear. We can see the bear, hear him panting and growling as he attempts to stomp on us, but everyone pretends he's just not there, even though he's eating all the food and we mice are starving. The bear is the U.S. government and media cover up of the 9/11 attacks. They never came close to proving that foreign "terrorists" were involved. Of all four missing planes' passenger manifests, not one Middle Easterner was on any of them. A jihadist who is bravely going to his death for the sake of his beliefs in Allah and Islam is a martyr and wants ...
Our Patience on Iraq Should Be Exhausted
Post Date: 2007-04-05 04:32:51 by Zoroaster
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Our Patience on Iraq Should Be Exhausted by Sheldon Richman, April 4, 2007 President Bush started the fifth year of his war in Iraq by pleading with the American people for patience. Give the escalation (“surge”) a chance to work, he said. He sees signs of success already, but the Democrats in Congress are showing their impatience, with the House attaching a 2008 withdrawal deadline to the war appropriations bill and the Senate set to consider the same legislation. In the discussion over whether the recent increase in troops will achieve the stated objective, the big picture is getting lost. Even most war critics in Congress seem to not fully see it. They routinely criticize ...
Verbatim: A Coal CEO Addresses Global Warming
Post Date: 2007-04-05 02:20:11 by mirage
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Following are highlights from a speech about global warming and the coal industry delivered by Robert E. Murray, chairman, president and CEO of Cleveland-based Murray Energy Corp. to the New York Coal Trade Association in New York City last Friday. Most participants in the coal industry are very threatened and troubled by the so-called "global warming," or carbon emission constraint, measures that have been introduced into the Congress that will ration the use of coal, with much worse adverse consequences to our American citizens than those that I have already experienced in my lifetime as a result of enactment of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment legislation. You see, so-called ...
Air Force Fighter Pilot and Instructor Comes Out for 9/11 Truth [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-04-04 20:57:00 by tom007
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Air Force Fighter Pilot and Instructor Comes Out for 9/11 Truth 9/11 Blogger | April 2, 2007 Every day, additional military and government people come out for 9/11 truth. The latest is Lt. Col. Guy S. Razer . Lt. Col. Guy S. Razer, MS, U.S. Air Force (ret) – Retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot (F-111, F-15E, F-16, B-1, F-18, Mig-29, and Suu-22). Flew combat missions over Iraq. Former instructor at the USAF Fighter Weapons School and NATO's Tactical Leadership Program. • Statement to this website 3/25/07: "After 4+ years of research since retirement in 2002, I am 100% convinced that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were planned, organized, and committed by treasonous ...
Economics versus Politics
Post Date: 2007-04-04 13:41:06 by Zoroaster
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Economics versus Politics by Frank Chodorov by Frank Chodorov DIGG THIS This article is excerpted from chapter 1 of The Rise and Fall of Society. It may be that wary beasts of the forest come around to accepting the hunter's trap as a necessary concomitant of foraging for food. At any rate, the presumably rational human animal has become so inured to political interventions that he cannot think of the making of a living without them; in all his economic calculations his first consideration is, what is the law in the matter? Or, more likely, how can I make use of the law to improve my lot in life? This may be described as a conditioned reflex. It hardly occurs to us that we might do ...
Weights and measures
Post Date: 2007-04-04 08:59:40 by robin
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Weights and measuresBy Joseph M. CachiaOnline Journal Contributing Writer Apr 4, 2007, 01:46 ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. --Ambrose BierceAs the Western media turns its attention to and prattles about the fate of the 15 Britons detained for allegedly trespassing into Iranian waters, the status of the five Iranian officials captured in a US military raid on a liaison office in Northern Iraq on January 11 remains a mystery.Even though high-level Iraqi officials called for their release, for all practical purposes, the Iranians have disappeared ...
President Bush has done a good job in the war against al Qaeda, Reuters reports.
Post Date: 2007-04-03 20:52:44 by BeAChooser
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President Bush has done a good job in the war against al Qaeda, Reuters reports. Seriously: Bush's administration has crippled al Qaeda's ability to carry out major attacks on U.S. . . . Even as al Qaeda tries to rebuild operations in Pakistan, experts including current and former intelligence officials believe the group would have a hard time staging another September 11 because of U.S. success at killing or capturing senior members whose skills and experience have not been replaced. But of course you know this is really bad news. The dispatch is titled "Bush Success vs. al Qaeda Breeds Long-Term Worries," and the text we omitted from the lead paragraph reads, ". ...
The Unearthing: An Awakening Has Arrived
Post Date: 2007-04-03 20:20:20 by lightmind
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The Unearthing: An Awakening Has Arrived With Truth Comes Awakening By Manuel Valenzuela 04/03/07 "ICH" -- -- The suppression of truth has long been among the highest priorities for the upper echelons of power and authority. For a minority elite that clings to power by the manipulation of the masses using an omnipresent cocktail of lies, deception, mass-produced ignorance and ingrained propaganda, the destruction of truth is an essential method of control. It is a formula that has worked to unmitigated success for the elite throughout history, whether the shadows of power stretch from ancient pyramids, marble temples, castles, mansions or halls of governance. Those holding the ...
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