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Israel: Terrorist Nation?

January 12, 2012

Imagine members of Hezbollah, recognized by the U.S. and Israel as a "terrorist" group, covertly entering Israel and over time assassinating a half a dozen of Israel's most distinguished science professors, one by one. James Bond movie style assassinations. Assassinations where a "terrorist" rides a motorcycle alongside a car carrying the targeted Israeli science professor [...]

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Thanksgiving Courage-In-A-Can

November 23, 2011

California…for college campus police, pepper spray must be considered "courage in a can." This paunchy University of California at Davis campus cop likes his "courage in a can" as can be seen in the casualness by which he strolls along spraying the eyes of non-violent American protesters. He's very brave because he has his courage [...]

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We're All Neo-Cons Now

October 14, 2011

President Obama's biggest disappointment, at least to progressives, has been his, I guess, "rebirth", as a neo-conservative. During Obama's campaign for the presidency, he made political hay out of George and Dick's offshore gulags, torture of detainees, unprovoked military attacks and occupations of countries posing no threat to America, eavesdropping on Americans without warrants, secrecy, [...]

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What 4th Amendment?

May 17, 2011

I was interested in my blog bud's recent post chastising Indiana Supreme Court members for ruling that citizens in Indiana "have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes." In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason [...]

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Can't Learn, Can't Be Taught

March 22, 2011

Ed Markey (D-MA)…..yesterday on MSNBC…. We're in Libya because of oil. And I think both Japan and nuclear technology and Libya and this dependence that we have upon imported oil have once again highlighted the need for the United States to have a renewable energy agenda going forward… As I said the other day…..if Libya [...]

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WalkerBack, Wisconsin

February 19, 2011

As with all events, there are now two wildly different narratives out there explaining what's happening in Wisconsin. In one of these two narratives, Governer Walker's Wisconsin is buried under mountains of debt. The debt is so bad, goes this narrative, that dealing with it is a dire emergency which the new Tea Party governor [...]

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All We Are Saying Is Give War A Chance

September 21, 2010

The most dangerous political movement in America today is not the Village darlings, the Tea Partyers. Not even close. Tea Partyers are like the cheap noisemakers many people use at midnight on New Year's Eve…..they're fun for a few minutes but have no lasting, practical value. The most dangerous political movement in America today is [...]

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Wagging That Dog

September 10, 2010

Embarassment isn't a sufficient enough word anymore…..doesn't quite capture the powerlessness one feels as one watches a nation disintegrate into a state of ignorant confusion. On 9-11, 19 extremist Muslims hijacked planes and crashed them into buildings killing almost 3000 U.S. citizens. We were told by the president at the time that those 19 attackers [...]

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"Bulldog" Political Theater

August 18, 2010

Or, perhaps, Fractured Political Fairy Tales. I couldn't decide on the title. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald prosecuted the Lewis Scooter Libby case. That was the case where Dick Cheney's office orchestrated the outing of CIA agent, Valerie Plame. Cheney's office had Ms. Plame outed at the time to scare any other potential whistleblower's in the [...]

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The "Second Class War"

July 26, 2010

WikiLeaks has released 92,000 classified reports on America's war in Afghanistan. The reports are from January 2004 through December 2009. While I'm certain that America's right will call for an assassination team to take out the proprietors of WikiLeaks as enemies of the empire…..the web site has actually done America a favor. The secret documents, [...]

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