Hugo Chavez says bad things about our President and he gets branded as some kind of international pariah. We say the same things about the same President and we get lumped into the majority of our fellow citizens who feel that this administration is a loose cannon on the deck of the ship of state.
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One of the things Benazir Bhutto was arguing for, as she campaigned for the upcoming elections, was a rejection of that false choice between security and freedom. She wanted to see beyond the spectacle of political violence and terrorism. She wanted that for her own people, but just as importantly she wanted the world to see this. She had pledged to confront the violent extremists, not to abide by them and she planned to do this with something much more effective than helicopter gunships or police state repression. She campaigned on the idea that the most effective weapon in the face of terrorism was the clear mandate of legitimate democracy. There are those who argue that her murder is evidence of her mistaken outlook. To my mind, they only take the crime one step further.
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By Saleeem Khan, Ph.D.
The violent death of Benazir Bhutto on December 27, is the latest event in a culture of violence that has been steadily spreading in the body politics in Pakistan.
Ms. Bhutto’s assassination took place in Liaqat Park 28 years after the execution in April 1979 of her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a democratically [...]
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At the risk of proving that I was the only one who didn’t already know this, I just read today about a poll that is a bit different than any I’ve known of before. Some 2,000 people are being tracked on a continuing basis to determine their reaction to the primary candidates and their campaigning.
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I read a nice comment (December 23, 2007 9:15 am) from a reader called “Tenacious G” regarding the Manitowoc creche controversy. (Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter).
It is succinct and deserves preservation and perusal. I wish all of my friends a very Merry Christmas! But I also look forward to a 2008 in which we as Americans [...]
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One thing that clearly must be reckoned with in the modern world is the corrupting influence of money on government. Money, skillfully applied to decision making can virtually control every outcome. Only in the absence of monetary corruption is the will of the people, expressed through voting outcomes, able to be effectuated.
Accordingly, it’s clear that [...]
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Here’s a little trip down memory lane from the “Freedom of Information Act” entry in Wikipedia. Watch the scenery very carefully and see if anything looks familiar.
Following the Watergate scandal, President Gerald R. Ford wanted to sign Freedom of Information Act-strengthening amendments in the Privacy Act of 1974, but concern about leaks (by his chief [...]
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Cross-posted on Stock Picks Bob’s Advice, Trading Goddess, and John Kerry for President 2008:
I join with other investors in disappointment of seeing a 1/4% drop in the Fed Discount Rate.
The market didn’t like it and turned from about a 50 point gain in the Dow to a 220 point loss. And the market has another [...]
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A cloud the size and color of night has just been lifted by the new NIE, and the one that I’m referring to is not the same one commonly being celebrated. Don’t get me wrong. The fact that there is now virtually zero chance of a U.S. direct military attack on Iranian soil is tremendously [...]
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With the writer’s strike in play, the nation has been badly missing its nightly dose of John Stewart, especially when it comes to those clips showing a series of one pundit after another banally repeating the same talking points with overwrought intensity. What has particularly been driving me crazy these past few days is hearing [...]
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It might be that this country has finally lost its capacity for outrage, has long since surrendered the idea of reproach or redress when lied to. We have become the Orwellian farm animals who find it too troubling to remember the promises once posted on the stable wall.
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I think it’s fairly safe to say that a majority of those who put in place our Constitution and signed our Declaration of Independence were Christians. But they understood democracy as something more than plurality. And they saw the sacred as a concern for the individual conscience, not the consensus of a committee, no matter how large or well intentioned that committee might be. The individual conscience, with its own freely chosen concept of Creation, outside the coercive authority of government, even a democratic one: They saw this as the core truth in their understanding of freedom. In my estimation, they got that one right.
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