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This is from 2 1/2 years ago: DoD Training Manual: Protests are "Low-Level Terrorism" Shorter: Actually use your 1st Amendment ri...

Making Believe Hello Stranger Thanks to mondoBLIND .

SPR “I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing poor inner city children on t...

Robert Parry . Worth a read. Neoconservatives are livid over President Obama’s declaration that the Iraq War is over, fearing that its disas...

Pierce looks at what we owe after this horrible, misbegotten war: ... We owe some terrible bills to the world for blundering around like a ...

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TPM Aryan Nations Leader Sentenced For Fraud After Feds Investigated Al Qaeda Ties Shorter: This bastard likes al Qaeda because they hate Je...

You Know Whom "So I apologize for this war. Yes, I have blood on my hands from my own violence against the world. But not this anymore....

I'm stealing this from the Rude One in toto because this is exactly how I feel about this horrible war that's finally over: [ Pres...

Reading this , I'm brought back to the last M*A*S*H episode, when they're all in the OR with Armed Forces Radio on, and the costs of...

Christine O'Donnell doesn't live in Saudi : ... A Saudi woman has been executed for practising "witchcraft and sorcery", t...

The war in Iraq is over . The flag of American forces in Iraq has been lowered in Baghdad, bringing nearly nine years of US military operati...

A short, but good, apologia from the master : ... Allow me to say this in my puny defence, however. One reason I’m such a wayward prognostic...

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Shopping day today (No Xmas shopping. Ours consisted of a gift certificate at a tattoo parlor for Mrs. G's niece and a check to her neph...

The Rude Pundit on Ron Paul v Neutie: They're both nuts. They're just different flavors of nuts. For Paul, there's one guiding ...

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For the GOP presidential nomination : In the most pronounced contrast between former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s position within the Repub...

Professor Krugman on the GOP's flogging of the "debt crisis": ... The entire debate has been fake. If you don’t understand th...