Archive for March, 2008

Friday, March 28th, 2008

The Costs of Retreat?

Yesterday, President George W. Bush gave a speech on the War in Iraq informing us that the “reality is that retreating from Iraq would carry enormous strategic costs for the United States.” The excellent orator that he is, Mr. Bush made a very powerful case about how leaving Iraq would be bad for the U.S. […]

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Friday, March 28th, 2008

The Real Obama Card

A Scottish friend just sent me an email asking why all of his American friends are so pro-Obama and why he doesn’t know any Republicans. Surely there must be some Republicans, he inquires. After thinking about, I came up with the following explanation:
I know plenty of Republicans, but they’re all in the States. In Europe, […]

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Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Truth and Consequence

I am starting to get very, very bored of the primaries. I am tired of Hillary’s false experience, demeaning of Obama, devisiveness, and stone casting while looking the other way. I am also exhausted from listening to a press that does little more than try to keep the Democracy race alive for as long as […]

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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Is Hillary the Tonya Harding of Politics?

The mainstream media is finally catching up with reality. Today on a netcast, ABC News likened Hillary to Tonya Harding in that her only real chances of winning are to destroy Obama. I guess it is not a good week for Hillary — it’s a “Long Defeat“.
Her allegations of experience are already starting to crumble […]

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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Lead by Example

Yesterday I saw in the news that French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s ex-wife — the women he was married to when he was elected to office in 2007 — has just remarried in New York. This news comes after the recent story that Sarkozy himself has also just remarried after only two months of courtship with […]

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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Guns and Justices: Pulling a Full 360º

Isn’t it interesting how easy it is for the Supreme Court Justices to perform a full 360º “about face” on their legal principles when it is convenient for them? This is obvious in the recent Supreme Court case of The District of Columbia v. Heller.

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Monday, March 24th, 2008

Politics in the Pulpit

Either I am going mad or the country is turning upside down. I just saw a CNN online story called “Politics in the Pulpit” where CNN reporters asked the question whether politics should enter our churches at Sunday services.
Apparently since white people can now be forgiven for not voting for Obama because he belongs to […]

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Monday, March 24th, 2008

Cleansing Sins, All Around

There is probably some truth to the fact that many white Americans feel a little bit better about themselves when they vote Obama. At least that’s what the two bit psycho-babblers out there have told us — white people can feel less guilty about America’s racist history by supporting an African American presidential candidate. “Me […]

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Friday, March 21st, 2008

It’s 3:00 a.m. and McCain is Still Dreaming

John McCain is running for president of the United States and he loves all things military. As a matter of fact, it is the one major factor that distinguishes him from the other candidates. He also seems to have more principles than Hillary, and I do respect the fact that he is trying to run […]

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Friday, March 21st, 2008

Hillary’s Experience Debated, finally

Finally, the Clinton’s have succumbed to pressure and have released some of the White House records. Bill and Hillary have cried and cried about the unfair treatment they’ve received from the press, and yet the press really has never questioned (i) the validity of Hillary’s experience claims, (ii) why she continues to stay in the […]

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