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Longevity does not necessarily bring wisdom
Biden was wrong on the surge. Biden was the one whose wisdom was to recommend that Iraq be partitioned into four zones - an approach that would have guaranteed a Shia region completely dependent on Iran. Biden has been around many years and can tell decent stories but Biden is such an ideologue he is incapable of actually looking at the data. The ...
Posted to War Stories by Student1776 on October 3, 2008
Great Review of Some Important Books . . .
. . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008
The loss of Zimbabwe and South Africa to the Reds . . .
. . . compares favorably with the loss of Afghanistan, Tibet, Hong Kong, and China to the Socialist/Communist ideologues elsewhere. Of course, the Anglo-American world Realpolitik has suffered it's share of losses to Right Wing Ideologue regimes, as well. Look no further than France, Italy, and Iran among others. We could even mention America in ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on April 21, 2008
A Tenth Ammendment, Swiss-Canton solution
What the world need is a universal ideal that was present in the Early Dutch Republic, Swiss cantons and America before the death of the 10th Amendment at Appomattox. The idea of a super-imposing, monolithic , or worse, a UN governmentt is the bane and curse of human existence. The 1848 counter-revolutionary idea of Otto Metternich should ...
Posted to War Stories by ConservativeCassandra on March 29, 2008
Democrats in Congress Failed Us All 8 Years
The Democrats and Democratic Party failed to stand up for what is right for the entire eight years of the Bush / Cheney White House misrule. They gave away our American two-party system; they gave away majority rule; they gave away our civil rights and bill of rights and civil liberties; they gave away the constitutional authority of the ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on January 30, 2008
Re: "Rally for him now" article by Melissa Harris Lacewell
Nope, you are wrong sly! He lived in Indonesia, but then his family moved to Hawaii where he went to a exclusive boarding school (like Hawaii's Andover). He says the Pledge for every Senate session, proudly facing the flag. I think you have him confused with Keith Ellison a black Muslim who was swore into Congress with his hand on a Koran. ...
Posted to Politics by cfarris on January 10, 2008
Why I'm an American in Exile...
On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007
How 2 Border Patrol Agents killed any chance of Congress ending the Iraq War...
In the Constitution, Congress' ultimate power is the power of the purse. Here Congress is trying to assert authority over the Executive by restricting funds for imprisoning these two Border Guards. If the courts deem this specific use of Congressional power unconstitutional, it would be tempting for the Executive to challenge ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by steak113 on July 28, 2007