The summer season of politics is alive and well in America as citizens devour hot dogs and hamburgers and wave flags in parades to celebrate the nation’s birth. Senator Barack Obama, is making certain one and all recognize that he is a patriot just like Bush or McCain or Ron Paul or any other […]

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Nobody Asked Me But,
If you see three people walking together, it is most likely the person in the middle does more talking than the other two.
I saw a girl walking in the park holding a bottle of water, talking on a cellphone and carrying a laptop. What is she doing in a park?
I watched a […]

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The storm in a teacup over a comment by retired Army General Wesley Clark continues echoing in the halls of Republican followers of John McCain. The senator from Arizona denounced Clark’s comment “I don’[t think riding in a fighter plane and getting show down is a qualification to be president.” McCain demanded “I think it […]

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During the past seven years the United States has been endeavoring to develop strong military programs with President Musharraf of Pakistan in order to crush Taliban and al-Qaida militants. The evidence is overwhelming of the lack of any success in this approach. The new government which is now in power in Pakistan is moving in […]

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In the heady days of the spring of 2003 as American troops ripped apart the inept Iraqi army, the dynamic trio of Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush insisted America would do what it considered the right thing regardless of what the rest of the world desired. Right wing pundits disparaged “bleeding heart liberals” for their concern about world opinion. […]

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President George Bush has from the beginning of his ill fated invasion of Iraq in 2003 been somewhat confused regarding not only the purpose of the venture but about its conclusion. On one hand, he is continually boasting the United States has no designs on Iraq and is simply there to help out, but, on […]

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It may come as a shock to people on planet Earth, but President Bush has always pursued the path of peace. However, he expressed to reporters some regret at the tone he used in expressing his peaceful intentions. “I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric.” He expressed […]

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his Cabinet the administration of George Bush is “especially friendly” to the people of Israel. He told them Israel could not be certain the next American administration would be as supportive as that of Bush so it is necessary to take actions now in order to protect against any future […]

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The debate over the Iraq war goes on endlessly with people like Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh or Vice President Cheney intoning words of “noble sacrifice” and “defending America,” but, in the end everything comes down to a single soldier walking in the hot suns of Iraq. It is easy to insist America will never […]

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American interrogators of terrorist suspects were instructed to destroy handwritten notes they were taking which might have exposed harsh or even illegal questioning methods being used at Guantanamo prison. Navy Lieutenant Commander Bill Kuebler, who has been waging gallant effort to protect the rights of his client, Omar Khadr, told reporters he considers the notes […]

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