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When the so-called “Bin Laden Hunter,” Gary Faulkner was arrested in Pakistan and returned to the United States last week, the media had fun lampooning the Colorado resident with his heart set on taking out Al-Qaeda’s top man. But Faulkner’s foreign policy is far more sensible than anything Washington continues to promote, and if forced [...]
Filed under: war
On an episode of MSNBC’s “Hardball” in April, host Chris Matthews excoriated politicians who attempt to run as independents, using consumer advocate Ralph Nader’s 2000 presidential bid as an example of how third parties muck up the two party system. Disgusted, Matthews concluded that “third parties suck!” Not long after that diatribe, when Florida governor [...]
One of my least favorite things about conservatives is their tendency to think of themselves as more patriotic than everyone else by virtue of their politics. When Americans concerned about the wisdom of waging certain wars or the loss of civil liberties dare speak out, conservatives who spend most of their time bashing Washington, D.C. [...]
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Even among Israel’s harshest critics, I’m not aware of anyone serious who believes or espouses what veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas said recently—that Israeli Jews should return to their nations of origin in Poland, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe, where they or their ancestors resided prior to World War II. Such a statement grossly [...]
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In the upcoming runoff for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, the losing Tea Party-anointed candidate in that race, attorney Larry Kobrovsky, has said that both primary winners—Charleston County Councilman Tim Scott and fellow Councilman Paul Thurmond—are too “establishment” to deserve an endorsement from grassroots conservatives. This is true, but there’s also another reason to be [...]
South Carolina State Senator Jake Knotts made national headlines last week when he said in a radio interview: “We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion.” Knotts was referring to President Obama, who he obviously believes is a Muslim, and SC Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki [...]
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If I had my druthers, the never ending conflict between Israel and Palestine would be but a small news brief in American newspapers. But since we police the world we must always monitor our global police scanner, where not only Israel’s conflicts, but those of Korea, the nation of Georgia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, now Turkey [...]
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By the time I was ten years old I already hated the government. When I was eight, they almost killed E.T. When I was nine, they wouldn’t let Kevin Bacon dance. At ten, I watched Rambo attempt to bring home prisoners of war from Vietnam only to be refused and left for dead by government [...]