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  • Iran: Foreign Influences Weigh Heavier than Reported

    Im reminded of the news from Oklahoma in the spring of 2001 when the Taliban refused the TAPI (Turkmen Afghan Pakistan Indian) pipeline contract from an American firms, the Bush admin set the CIA to start the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan. ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama3 on June 18, 2009

  • Iranian Change or American Campaign inside Iran

    Im curious to see how much influence America has had in supporting the Iranian opposition. America has legally stated that is seeks to oust the Iranian regime of Khamenai and the Islamic republic and replace it with a secular republic/democracy. Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker reported that America has been supporting insurgent groups in Iran, ...
    Posted to Dispatches by Usama3 on June 13, 2009

  • Why Pigs are Dangerous

    Egypt has recently called for culling the nation's pig population. This has led to mixed outrage and strange support. Poor Christian pig farmers in Egypt protested that pigs are their livelihood, claimed their pigs are healthy, and that its unfair. However, Coptic religious leaders have supported the cull. The largest opposition group in ...
    Posted to Science by Usama3 on May 2, 2009

  • Failure to Admit Blagojevich Appointee to Senate Big Mistake

    Failure to Admit Illinois Governor Blagojevich's Appointee, the eminently qualified and well reputed Roland Burris, to the United States Senate will prove to be a supremely Big Mistake made by the Democratic Senate Leadership and yes, Barack Obama. News today is that the U.S. Senate will seat 59 Democratic Senators, including their Candidate ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard3 on January 5, 2009

  • Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..

    ... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 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

  • Re: Bill Richardson: Obama's Vice President

    Bill Richardson ran for President on a shoestring and lost most impressively, with hardly any votes despite his ballyhooed resume and months long campaigning, here in New Hampshire. He reminds me of John Connolly more than anyone else, other than maybe Ross Perot. Then, he hesitates at Bill Clinton's blandishments before endorsing Obama, waiting ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on March 24, 2008

  • Why Bring Yahweh into This?

    It was a splendid little article until Dahlia brought Yahweh into this. God did not authorize CIA operatives or their contracted specialists to waterboard those three human beings- George Bush did. Perhaps her cynical religious sentiment makes Dahlia's notion of God to be a whimsical doubletalker, but that's rabbinical artistic license. God ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Usama2 on February 10, 2008