Archive for the ‘war’ Category
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Short Term, Long Term
Posted on June 8, 2011
In the short term, the economy might dip back into a recession, which means that our debt picture in the long term gets only worse. In the short term, it...
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Thanks to the Few
Posted on May 27, 2011
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” Dwight Eisenhower, the last general to...
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Israel
Posted on May 20, 2011
About a decade ago, I visited the Golan Heights as part of a broader trip that took me all around Israel. Back then, visiting Israel brought out a jumble of...
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Conspiracy Theory
Posted on May 5, 2011
America loves conspiracy theories. Franklin Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened. The CIA killed Jack Kennedy. George Bush blew up the Twin Towers. The Trilateral Commission runs the...
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Osama Unarmed?
Posted on May 4, 2011
Kill the unarmed; Die unarmed. Seems to me to that what is fair is fair. Osama Bin Laden specialized in killing innocent civilians. He targeted Americans in our embassies and...
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