Archive for September, 2007
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Rick Perlstein has an important posting at Common Sense…one that attempts to examine the transformati on of the American mind set in the aftermath of 9/11. In offering some much needed historical context, he seeks to disavow the American citizenry of the behavior that characterize d the reaction to Iran’s ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
But the question remains, are we executing a proper strategy in Iraq?
Imagine this. Your Iraqi. You have an 8 year old son. He’s walking home from school one day and spies some interesting yellow chord on the side of the road. He stoops over, ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
When GW suggested that he was engaged in the defining ideological struggle of the 21st century, he wasn’t kidding. If you take a look at his address delivered today at the UN, it’s riddled with unbridled rhetoric designed…wel l, to do what?
When W suggest that to the ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Every now and again, news events create a uniquely instructive conflation. Such a situation can be found in the events and the headlines of the last two days. Yesterday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad responded to a question about the mistreatment of homosexuals in Iran with an answer that would befuddle ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Ronald Reagan had a vision. You might not agree with his vision. You might not even agree with the premises of his vision but you can not say that he did not have a vision. His vision was based on the propaganda that he voiced through out World War II. ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
The President continues to threaten a veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) should Congress, as expected, pass the measure which expands the program by $35 billion dollars over the next five years. The bottom line for the President centers on his displeasure with the prior rejection of ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Just a quick note - I’m taking the day off from the blog tonight to play Halo 3. A few of us BIO folks will be cracking open our copy and kickin’ ass (or ehh feeling the bottom of someones boot) this evening. If you ge a copy and want ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Tell me that George W. Bush is the voice of America and you will get an earful from over seventy percent of the population. Tell me that Ahmadinejad is the voice of the Iranian people and you will here this Irish American with his Iranian American friends that will have ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
The phrase “Bush Lied” was superimposed over the names. As the casualty count grew, the bumper sticker became a T-shirt, and Frazier added the words “They Died.”
It is a pain to be able to see both sides of this argument. The LAT has a writeup about it, and I was ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Last night I had the opportunity to hang out with folks who think like me. The difference was, this was face time. All my politicking is cyber. I write, comment and chat all the time, but I rarely actually talk to people. Part of that is because I live in ...
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