Another Doomed Mission for America’s Military

You can tell the War in Iraq is winding down.  Afghanistan doesn’t look like it offers too many opportunities for the major defense contractors either, and the rest of the world looks more or less peaceful – with the usual exception of Israel – a we certainly aren’t going there. So what can our military-industrial [...]

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Barack the Magic Negro Destroys the Republican Party

It’s official, the Republican Party is in full blown self-destruct mode.  The inmates are now running the asylum as the Grand Old Party lurches towards its inevitable end as a viable U.S. political party.  A candidate for the leadership of the Republican Party, Chip Saltsman, recently sent out CDs of the song “Barack the Magic [...]

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Israel: Here we go again

For a long time Hamas has been lobbing rockets into Israel from Gaza.  In characteristic fashion Israel has finally responded with a heavy-handed counterattack. Doesn’t this seem like deja vu all over again? How many times have we seen this scenario? At lot of times, more that I have the desire to count. Now Israel [...]

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Our Co-opted Christmas – It’s a Good Thing

It is about 2009 years since the birth of the man we call Jesus.  No one really knows the exact year of his birth and as for the day of his birth, well there are a lot of theories, but the chance of it being December 25th is about 1 in 365. The selection of [...]

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The Great 350 Billion Dollar Bank Robbery

The old saying is that if a dog bites a man it isn’t news, but if a man bites a dog then it’s news.  Well, we haven’t been bit – we’ve been robbed – by the banks!  That is news I suppose, but somehow in our Bushian world of doublespeak and lies it’s hard to [...]

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