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Sergeant Benderman
i>The following e-mails are presented in their original form with the permission of the author, Monica Benderman- wife of Sergeant Kevin Benderman. The decision to publish them was made because no attempt at a narrative was able to capture the matter-of-fact anger of the first e-mail, nor the frustrated anger of the second. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Briefly, Kevin Benderman had served as an army mechanic for 10 years when he developed moral and religious objections to the war in Iraq and, after ...Read the rest of this post »
February 4, 2012
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George Bush Toys With The Truth
It is flabbergasting how George Bush toys with the truth and the American people. As today, Rep. Jane Harman claims that Bush and his security people floated "credible intelligence" that there was a terrorist threat to the nation's capitol -so Democrats were reluctant to turn down his legislation amending the FISA law... enabling President Bush to wiretap Americans without warrants. It turns out, according to Harman, she discovered that the "terrorist threat" was a phony - to frighten ...Read the rest of this post »
February 2, 2012
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Immigration Reform: History of Policies in the United States
Immigration reform, in its broadest terms, refers to changes in the immigration policies of a country. The term is often used in the debate over immigration to refer to the limiting or tightening of immigration policies. The United States has a long history of limiting immigration during particular times or restricting certain groups from entering the country legally. North America's first inhabitants are believed to have come from Asia, via the land bridge over the Bering Sea. When the land ...Read the rest of this post »
February 1, 2012
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THE CRUSADER vs. THE CALIPHATE...The Bush Doctrine
/p> By Doug Krieger THE GREEN CURTAIN From the Pillars of Hercules in the Atlantic to the Indonesian Archipelago in the Pacific a vile and putrid Green Curtain threatens its descent to enshroud and enslave a vast swath of earth's inhabitants. An Islamic Empire, the resurrection of the Moslem Caliphate, envelopes "with greater economic and military and political power . . . able to advance their stated agenda: to develop weapons of mass destruction . . . destroy Israel . . . intimidate Europe . ...Read the rest of this post »
January 31, 2012
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Conflict of Interest between Drug Companies and Doctors
PILLS, PILLS and MORE PILLS We are fortunate to live in a time having medications that alleviate uncomfortable, even life threatening symptoms of physical and mental dis-ease. Yet, traditional medicine in the developed countries continue to use only two primary methods to treat patients complaints; medication, generally in the form of pills, and surgery. When you visit your doctor and have a symptom, you get a pill, a second symptom, another pill, a third symptom still another pill with little ...Read the rest of this post »
January 30, 2012
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I Don't Trust You
Government should never ask the people to simply trust them as an excuse to move forward with anything. And the people should never grant government trust for the sole reason that it is government. Such requests for and grants of trust are the key to creating a lazy population ripe to be pillaged and enslaved by ideologies unkind to liberty. First conservatives were asked to trust that John Roberts is the Constitutionalist we were promised by President Bush on the campaign trail. Despite a ...Read the rest of this post »
January 29, 2012
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ssue of NATO Enlargement in American-European Relations
NATO enlargement is doubtless one of the most important issues in NATO-USA relations and in attitude of American politics towards this organization. Therefore, in dealing with American-European relations within NATO, it is impossible to question the issue of enlargement of this alliance. NATO enlargement towards Central and Eastern European states was originally the major project in seconding NATO's viability. The purpose of the first enlargement round was regarded by the USA in preservation ...Read the rest of this post »
January 28, 2012
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Political Sports Player of the Week - Oct. 10, 2005
Mohamed ElBaradei is this week's Political Sports Player of the Week. Mr. Baradei and the organization he leads, The International Atomic Energy Agency, won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, which was announced this week. The White House strongly criticized ElBaradei in the period leading up to the start of the Iraq War, contending that his findings, indicating that Iraq did not have any WMD, including nuclear weapons, was absolutely wrong. You can read the article ...Read the rest of this post »
January 26, 2012
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Political Radio Advertising for 2006
With the landscape of American politics becoming extremely polarized, the scope and type of radio commercials that are produced will be challenged to offer rhetoric and copy that touches the heart and not deflect off the shield that surrounds the soul of most voters. The conditioning of the mind has been evolving since the first political radio commercials. Scott Radio (www.scottradio.com) a radio political voice and script writing organization conducted a survey of over five hundred radio ...Read the rest of this post »
January 25, 2012
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Here They Come Again: Another Go Round for Wacky 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
There isn't much that the 9/11 conspiracy theorists say that can or should be believed. That even includes the windy claim that their celebration in New York of the sixth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks will be the biggest in history. The problem with that grandiose boast is that the same bunch claimed last year that their fifth anniversary event would be the biggest yet. In the fine print at the bottom of the wearechange.org website release, they add the "clarification" that ...Read the rest of this post »
January 24, 2012
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