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Yes, remember, remember the fifth of November, for the martyrdom of he who could have spared merry old England four centuries at the head of the rapacious empire that proclaimed the white man’s burden and set the stage for the inglorious American imperium that now faces its final comeuppance – and yes, could have also [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — You attack the moon! NASA’s going for full impact Friday, firing a bomb-laden missile at the moon in a dramatic search for water. […] Last month, the online journal Science reported that data from a recent space probe confirmed the presence of traces of water on the moon. “It’s not liquid [...]
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On yesterday’s drive home I listened to Sean Hannity, as I often do. Hannity was upset, as he often is, about President Obama ”weakening” American defense – scrapping missile defense shields in Europe, not escalating troop levels fast enough in Afghanistan, ignoring an Iran on the verge of getting nukes – you know, not being “conservative.” “You’re a great American!” [...]
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I read this on the air this morning and thought it worth passing around. None of this will be earth shattering to most on the Alternative Right, but I thought of it on September 11, 2001 and still think of it every anniversary. This is Pat Buchanan describing a hypothetical terrorist attack that could take [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — First, apologies for the infrequency of my contributions. I suffer from a seemingly terminal case of poor time-management abilities, but I promise that I’m working on rectifying this. I hate to leave my favorite agitators without reason to engage me. With a few drafts saved and ideas running through my convoluted [...]
On ABC’s “This Week” this morning, George Will’s retort to Robert Gates, Fred Kagan and everyone else criticizing his call for troop withdrawal in Afghanistan, was to note support for his position from former Marine Commandant Gen. Chuck Krulak and other military brass. From the Politico: George Will, whose columnn last week calling for the U.S. to pull [...]
Just caught his latest rant about the radicals in the Obama Administration, focusing on the unsympathetic example of one time black Marxist “green jobs czar” Van Jones. But in a flash of Beck’s total ignorance, in one of his melodramatic flourishes about saving the republic he invoked the Spanish Republican slogan “They shall not pass”.
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — … because the sun never sets on the American Imperium. Just a friendly Saturday reminder of where your tax dollars* end up: Map of United States military bases worldwide. (Apologies: Actually uploading the map would have created a better effect, but I had no such luck.) *Holy moly, in 2004 our [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — One’s freedom to choose is limited by the moral obligation to kill: NEW YORK — Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Mount Sinai Hospital on behalf of a Catholic nurse who was forced to participate in a late-term abortion under the threat of disciplinary action, including possible termination [...]
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Do you? I was young in the leadup to the Iraq war, but today’s political climate still feels familiar. The Western press puppets the war line by presenting a crazy and irrelevant war quote-of-the-week by a tinpot dictator and refuses to be critical about the actual threat presented by said tinpot dictator. Israel, having set its mouthpieces a’drumming [...]
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