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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
On the evils of American 'Multiculti'
Post Date: 2006-04-30 15:04:03 by A K A Stone
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Not much logic to history. Big names in civilizations come and go, at the whim of unpredictable trends and processes. One of the ugly realities of modernity is that the world has become a junkyard of failed ideologies. To live in the present is like trying to relax on the comfortable porch of a home surrounded by unsightly putrid piles of garbage. (The upside of this situation is that the thinking person can identify the values which are worth cultivating, simply by noting what is missing in the failed ideologies). One ugly ideology of the present is what I call Americanism: the politics, culture, and morality of the United States since the mid-twentieth century.
I admit that ...
If You Are Democrat Or Republican, You Are A Fool Or A Wimp
Post Date: 2006-04-25 01:02:48 by Coral Snake
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If You Are Democrat Or Republican, You Are A Fool Or A Wimp By Douglas Herman Exclusive to http://Rense.com 4-21-6 "Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country." -- Ambrose Bierce (Devil's Dictionary) I've known lots of fine folks who proudly called themselves registered Republicans or Democrats. Heck, many of my own siblings have voted Republican or Democrat. I respect and admire millions of otherwise sane folks who have voted for either party. I admire them, but never for their voting. If you call yourself a Democrat today you are either a fool or hopelessly naïve. If you call yourself a Republican you are ...
The disintegrating Republican Party
Post Date: 2006-04-23 10:56:40 by Jhoffa_
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The disintegrating Republican Party The ever-widening divide within the Republican Party is going more to destroy the GOP than anything the Democrats might try. The immigration reform debate has highlighted a long-standing fissure in the GOP between the elitist Rockefeller business wing and the party's conservative populist base. Whether the two groups can continue to coexist and preserve the Republican majority is increasingly doubtful as conservatives begin to consider -- and in some cases cheer -- the possibility that the GOP may lose control of Congress this fall. The two camps are deeply divided. The business elites are interested in a large supply of cheap labor and support ...
Iran, You Ran, Let's Bomb Iran
Post Date: 2006-04-21 21:28:09 by Jhoffa_
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Iran, You Ran, Let's Bomb Iran When all else fails and you're becoming Nixon 2.0, why not just nuke someone, and smirk? It's just like playing blackjack in Vegas. Invariably, sitting right next to you is some guy, eyes shifty and body twitchy and making weird sounds with his mouth and smelling vaguely of sawdust and horse manure and dead dreams, with a huge pile of chips he is quickly turning into a very small pile of chips. He is suffering. He is playing terribly, grumbling, sneering at the dealer, talking to the cards like they were his personal slutty harem ("C'mon you dumb bitches, do me right," etc.), complaining to his very angry God who is apparently no longer coming ...
Last Hope For Impeachment If Democrats don't do it now they are clearly complicit
Post Date: 2006-04-09 00:20:49 by Coral Snake
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Last Hope For Impeachment If Democrats don't do it now they are clearly complicit Paul Joseph Watson/Prison http://Planet.com | April 8 2006 Today's White House admission that George W. Bush authorized the leak of, and let's not beat around the bush and call it an 'intelligence report' like the yellow bellies at Reuters, the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame as a political stunt in retaliation for Joe Wilson's refusal to be the snake oil salesman for their rigged war, is the final nail in the coffin proving we have a dictatorship in Washington. Dictatorships are not always defined by funny hand salutes and gas chambers. The dictionary definition mentions neither, but it does mention ...
"What Is And What Shall Always Be!!"
Post Date: 2006-04-06 09:44:32 by Mudboy Slim
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"What Is And What Shall Always Be!!" (To be sung to Led Zeppelin's "What Is And What Should Never Be") Left, 'tis yer fate to live in sorrow... Join the Band, Right, FReep with me!! Lib'rals are hassles, RATS forsake you... When Liberty means bein' free!! RATS can't win...see Left's spin... Fate's in play...FReep today... Freedom's Right...Freedom's nigh...(and woah-oh) But the Limbaugh folks...we're really fightin' BOLD!! Dem Lib'rals gonna know... Pubbies, show some spine...Big Guv'ment ain't right!! Oh-ah-ohh!! 'Tis Lib'rals' fate to live in sorrow... While the Right loves Liberty!! DemRATS can't stop US, petty babies... 'Cuz Leftists fear Responsibility!! RATS ...
A Collapsing Presidency Will it take the country down with it?
Post Date: 2006-03-21 23:08:10 by Coral Snake
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A Collapsing Presidency Will it take the country down with it? By Paul Craig Roberts 3-20-6 The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that President Bush's support among the American people has fallen to 33 percent. Even more devastatingly, the survey finds that people's most frequently used one-word description of President Bush is "incompetent." The chief chaplain for the New York City Corrections Department told a Tucson audience that "the greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House." Two years ago when New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was suppressing demonstrations at the Republican National Convention, the chief chaplain would have ...
Neoconus Nefarious - Understanding The Wild Neocon
Post Date: 2006-03-21 23:02:20 by Coral Snake
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Neoconus Nefarious - Understanding The Wild Neocon By Douglas Herman Exclusive To http://Rense.com 3-20-6 Since introduction into the wild, the once-domesticated Neocon (Latin: neocunus nefarious), has despoiled surrounding habitats and populations. While habitat destruction is not, in itself, the single greatest depredation of neocons-gone-wild, such widespread destruction replicates with each report that scientific researchers record. Neoconus Nefarious, the feral cross-breed of the larger, less aggressive species of Paleoconus Americanus, is far more dangerous and unpredictable. Field research has shown that Neoconus can attack without provocation. Also, Neoconus Nefarious often ...
The American Dream
Post Date: 2006-03-21 09:23:57 by A K A Stone
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We must have forgotten it. What it was. Not the America Bush talks about or Cheney plots to create, but the Old School idea that was referred to as the American Dream. Do you remember it? How did it go? Here’s what I remember. The American Dream- the freedom/right to find someone you love to share your life with. Do a decent weeks work for a decent weeks pay. Raise a couple of children in a house you own. Get those kids a decent education in a safe environment that will allow them to pursue their dreams. Retire at a decent age and enjoy your golden years in peaceful pursuit of your hobbies and interests. That was it. So simple, so easy and so out of reach at this point it’s ...
Order Out Of Chaos In Iraq
Post Date: 2006-03-10 18:14:05 by A K A Stone
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It is now clearer than ever before that the blueprint for Iraq from the very start was to deliberately allow the country to descend into chaos and encourage Muslim to kill Muslim as the Neo-Con juggernaut of ethnic cleansing roars on to steamroll its next victim. We don't even need to cast our eye over recent incidents to know that staged managed events and psychological operations are taking place in Iraq. The Pentagon admitted that the April 9 2003 Saddam statue toppling was orchestrated not by joyous Iraqis but by a Marine colonel, with a psychological team using loudspeakers to urge onlooking Iraqis to assist. Close angle shots of the scene broadcast live worldwide gave the impression ...
Another War for Israel; The Amen Corner Howls For War With Iran
Post Date: 2006-03-06 10:43:02 by Brian S
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A prominent public official finally said what we've been saying all along in these pages: "The U.S. presence in Iraq is hurting the worldwide war on terrorism and benefits only Iran and al-Qaeda, U.S. Rep. John Murtha said on Sunday. 'The only people who want us in Iraq are Iran and al-Qaeda,' Murtha said on CBS's Face the Nation political talk show. 'And I talked to a top-level commander the other day and he said China wants us there also. Why? Because we're depleting our resources … our troop resources and our fiscal resources.'" Not to worry: Iran, it seems, is next on our hit list, and this is largely at the behest of the one beneficiary of the Iraq war Murtha fails to ...
Harry Browne: I Love America. Do You?
Post Date: 2006-03-03 14:13:58 by Brian S
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Editor's note: Harry Browne, libertarian author and activist, died Wednesday, March 1, 2006. The following piece originally appeared on http://Antiwar.com Nov. 20, 2001. We reprint it in memory of this great friend of peace and liberty. I love America. I love every concept the Statue of Liberty stands for – that individual liberty is held above the objectives of government; that, as Washington and Jefferson said, America imparts good will toward all and threatens no one; that this country is so big-hearted and prosperous it can welcome people from all over the world fleeing oppression or poverty. I love the Bill of Rights – the most noble document ever written to define the ...
A Fearful Master; We're fighting for "freedom" in Iraq – but certain Web sites are off limits to U.S. soldiers
Post Date: 2006-03-03 14:05:08 by Brian S
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"Government is not reason," George Washington reputedly said, "it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." The fear factor works both ways: the present administration has spent a great deal of time and energy on scaring us half to death with tales of imminent terrorist attacks – especially around election time – but they, in turn, stand in fear of their own subjects, particularly the ones in uniform. That is why the Pentagon is now censoring the Internet, declaring certain Web sites – including those of some major news organizations – off limits to military personnel. Check out this e-mail from a U.S. ...
Buchanan: The Neocon Temptation
Post Date: 2006-03-03 11:49:02 by Brian S
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Posted: March 3, 2006 "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed ..." There may be a better description of what is happening in Iraq than the words of Yeats. It does not come to mind. Before President Bush ordered Gen. Tommy Franks to invade, four forces held Iraq together: Saddam's regime, the Baath Party, the secret police and the army. The conquering Americans, as has been their way from Sherman to LeMay, smashed them all. The center that held Iraq together, repulsive as it was, is gone. But, the comment of Yuval Diskin, head of the Israeli security agency Shin Bet, may yet prove incisive: "I'm not ...
Ebla: An Untold Story
Post Date: 2006-02-27 08:24:23 by continental op
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"Which is preferable for man and for society, abundance or scarcity?" ~ Frédéric Bastiat, (1801?1850) Economic Sophisms What is it about abundance that people fear? Whether we like it or not Robert LeFevre was correct in his analysis of man?s love for government. Indeed, man establishes then condones the excesses, abuses, and maltreatment of the state. This stems from a perception of imminent danger in the form of marauding hoards, raptorial neighbors, predacious social misfits, war, sickness, aging, poverty, the lack of food, not being clothed, not having shelter or not being kept warm. In short, the basics of life and happiness are consigned to whims of ...
The war against blondes
Post Date: 2006-02-27 08:20:52 by continental op
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I will freely admit that I am perhaps more partial than most to the Nordic beauty. This may be due in part to growing up in Minnesota, where one is surrounded at all times by blondes named Johnson, Nelson and Olsen, where "ON or EN?" is a most commonly asked question, where "swedegians" are considered half-breed mongrels and where girls who look exactly like Scarlett Johansson do not receive Maybelline contracts, but work as janitors at the local health club instead. Minnesota is, perhaps, the only state in the Union where there are more Kirstins, Kjirstins and Kjerstins than Christines of either the "C" or the "K" variety. For my first six months at ...
Remembering a libertarian pioneer
Post Date: 2006-02-26 08:17:00 by continental op
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Remembering a libertarian pioneer By ALAN W. BOCK Senior Editorial writer The year 1943 was a significant year for a philosophical tendency that apparently had been reduced to a "remnant" by the success and popularity of the New Deal: Americans who believed the country was about individual liberty and that this implied an economic system of minimal taxation and regulation and maximum free enterprise, or laissez-faire. Four books that would help to revive the tendency were published that year. Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead," later made into a movie starring Gary Cooper, was the most popular, and, with her later novel, "Atlas Shrugged," had perhaps the biggest ...
Obese America
Post Date: 2006-02-26 08:14:32 by continental op
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As our national waistline inflates faster than the Weimar Republic?s fiat currency, Americans aggressively pursue a cure for the obesity epidemic. Looking for the easy way out, our overweight compatriots are willing to try anything, from eating nothing but grapefruit to buying any book with the words "Lose Weight" in the title. Our undying desire to slim down, compounded by supreme gullibility, makes the legendary quest for the fountain of youth look promising by comparison. But, as a law of nature, the equation for losing weight has been and always will be: consume fewer calories than you expend. While the "consume fewer calories" part of the remedy is purely a matter ...
Government Makes Things Worse
Post Date: 2006-02-26 08:13:09 by continental op
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For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. For every government action, there is necessarily an opposite and unintended reaction, though sometimes it can be much more than equal. In my previous article, I wrote that the interventions of forcible government into human activity serve to distort incentives: Whenever government acts, you and I as a necessary result face circumstances in which we are personally rewarded for behaviors that are not in line with the spirit of the law; nor are these behaviors typically what would be best for human progress. Today, I treat the same subject from a different direction ? by showing that government attempts to solve problems always ...
Paking It In
Post Date: 2006-02-26 08:09:53 by continental op
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The riots in Pakistan are hardly news anymore: if they appear in the paper at all, it is on page C17, between a story on starvation in the Sudan and a report that Mrs. McGillicuty fell down the stairs. The riots continue nonetheless, seemingly unconcerned that the rest of the world is no longer watching. Perhaps it should. Periodic riots are normal in parts of the world; England was famous for them in the 18th century. But when rioting continues day after day, it can serve as a sort of thermometer, taking the temperature of a population. Pakistan, it would seem, is running a fever, one that shows little sign of breaking. On the surface, the rioting is a protest against cartoons of ...
Lest We Forget
Post Date: 2006-02-26 08:04:34 by continental op
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Fifty years ago today Nikita Krushchev gave his Secret Speech to the Closed Session of the Twentieth Party Congress in which he denounced Joseph Stalin. At that time Krushchev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, held the most powerful political office in the world. The power that Stalin had accumulated in this position had made communism unsafe for communists. Heroes of the Bolshevik Revolution had been subjected to "barbaric tortures" and forced to incriminate themselves "with all kinds of grave and unlikely crimes." Krushchev denounced Stalin before the Party Congress "in order that we may preclude any possibility of a repetition in ...
Handing U.S. port security to UAE is terrible idea
Post Date: 2006-02-25 18:37:44 by RickyJ
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On Sunday, the Australian government issued the following alert to its citizens: "We advise you to exercise a high degree of caution in the United Arab Emirates because of the high threat of terrorist attack. We continue to receive reports that terrorists are planning attacks against Western interests in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Commercial and public areas frequented by foreigners are possible terrorist targets." The United States has approved a business deal that would turn over the operation of six major American ports to a company that is owned by the UAE, the very country Australians are to be wary of visiting. The obvious question: If it is dangerous for an Australian ...
War in Error
Post Date: 2006-02-24 08:26:16 by continental op
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War in Error Sending a general to do a sheriff?s job By Andrew J. Bacevich Small events sometimes reveal large truths. Last month?s U.S. missile strike in the remote Bajaur district of Pakistan was such an event. Aimed at taking out Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden?s chief deputy, the strike missed its intended target and killed as many as 18 residents of the small village of Damadola. But the episode did not end there: outraged Pakistanis rose up in protest; days of highly publicized anti-American demonstrations followed. In effect, the United States had handed Muslims around the world another grievance to hold against Americans. In stark, unmistakable terms, the Damadola affair lays ...
Cesar Chavez, Minuteman
Post Date: 2006-02-24 08:23:35 by continental op
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Cesar Chavez, Minuteman The UFW leader was no friend to illegal immigration? until he became an ethnic figurehead. By Steve Sailer In California, only three birthdays are official state holidays: Jesus Christ?s, Martin Luther King?s, and Cesar Chavez?s. Beatification as a secular saint, though, isn?t always good for the soul. A recent four-part exposé by reporter Miriam Pawel in the Los Angeles Times revealed how the labor leader turned revered ethnic icon descended into paranoia, megalomania, and general crack-pottery in the 15 years before his death in 1993. Today, his United Farm Workers functions less as a union?it represents only 2 percent of the California agricultural ...
Who Elected Hamas?
Post Date: 2006-02-24 08:20:12 by continental op
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Who Elected Hamas? We did?with help from the Israelis and Fatah. by M.J. Rosenberg The Nixon-China analogy is growing stale. Every time an extremist takes power anywhere, the starry-eyed immediately trot out the ?but it took Richard Nixon to go to China? example as evidence that the newest ideologue to win an election will pull a 180 once he?s in office. Using this logic, Hamas, now that it has been elected to lead the Palestinian legislature, is in a position both to make peace with Israel and to make it stick, something the more moderate Fatah could not do. Unfortunately, the Nixon analogy probably doesn?t apply here. Nixon was a pragmatist, not an extremist. Nor was his opposition to ...
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