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Mitt Romney: A Postmodern Hero running for President 2007-12-09 12:16:53 For those of us with backgrounds in literature or the social sciences, we should be familiar with the qualities embodied by the cliché character, the postmodern hero. This form of existence abandons with Modernistic pretenses that we somehow form a unified agent, who possesses the same underlying identity from one occasion to the next, despite [...] ... President

The Straight Truth about Mitt Romney and his Mormonism 2007-12-07 06:23:25 I have been sitting here today, watching the headlines about Mitt Romney and his Mormonism and his so-called Christianity. I also see where he gave a speech, that has been compared to John F. Kennedy’s Speech on his Catholicism. I’ve also watched, as some very well known Republicans have swooned over his speech. I find [...] ...

New War on Gun Owners Portends End of All U.S. Liberty 2007-12-05 23:51:49 An Article by: Loren Bliss Even inside the Second Amendment community, too many U.S. voters remain oblivious to the fact the Democrats and the Republicans are now openly collaborating to forcibly disarm as many Americans as possible — especially U.S. military veterans — with an oppressive package of bipartisan Congressional legislation already enacted or pending. More troubling still [...] ...

Bush needs his own “Great White Fleet” 2007-12-01 19:41:36 An Article By: Ben Tanosborn In two weeks we’ll be quietly celebrating, without any fanfare or even a likely honorable mention in the mainstream press, our Centennial as a world aspiring empire. Well, that’s really my own take, for the anniversary is really of the departure from Hampton Roads of the Great White Fleet. On December 16, 1907 [...] ...

American foreign policy issues are debatable, not negotiable 2007-11-25 11:42:17 Five years ago Bush invented the “Coalition of the Willing” to wage war on Iraq; now he is creating the “Reunion of the Unwilling” to force peace on Palestine.  A mockery for war capped this time by a mockery for peace.  Will Bush ever learn?  Is this American president destined to fail in peace as [...] ...

Letter concerning Neo-conservatism, Moral Realism, and the State of American Political Culture 2007-11-15 06:00:36 An Article by Russell Cole I have studied the development of this political and social ideology [neoconservatism] to some extent, and its primary forebear is a political philosopher by the name, Leo Strauss. He was most affected by Plato, and, in particular, The Republic. I presume this is where Strauss gained his authoritarian worldview, [...] ...

Theft of Virtual Furniture that is a prop belonging to an online game leads Dutch police to question 15 year olds? What the Heck is Going On?! 2007-11-14 17:03:38 This nonsense is brought to you by the BBC ‘Virtual theft’ leads to arrest   Dutch teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture from “rooms” in Habbo Hotel, a 3D social networking website.The 17-year-old is accused of stealing 4,000 euros (£2,840) worth of virtual furniture, bought with real money. Five 15-year-olds have [...] ...

Hot-blooded, cold-blooded and blue-blooded 2007-11-13 12:42:52 An Article by: Ben Tanosborn If you are part of a noble lineage, or so consider yourself, you can be hot-blooded, cold-blooded … or both things at the same time.  For the rest of us who are often told that we travel on this earth on borrowed time, put on this earth to give added shine [...] ...

Econophoria: Our twelfth economic leading indicator 2007-11-08 19:23:02 Countdown towards an economic bloodbath has already started!  For those required by their religion to accept the mystery of the Holy Trinity, some wisdom should come from the unraveling of the other (financial) “holy trinity”: debt, price of oil and value of the US dollar.  Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three distinct, different persons [...] ...

Democrats risk self-sabotage in presidential race … again 2007-11-06 11:15:30 Steve Hammons AmericanChronicle.com  November 4, 2007  http://americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=42271  Will the people voting in the Democratic primaries and the Democratic Party as a whole once again sabotage themselves?  Will they “snatch defeat from the jaws of victory,” as some of characterized it?  There seems to be a recent history of this, and by the looks of things, history may [...] ...

Petraeus’ Anti-insugency Field Manual is an act of Literary and Academic Fraud 2007-11-04 15:48:00 As it turns out – similarly to every other glorious event publicly rendered to death by the Bush Administration in collusion with those professionals in government who have prostituted themselves in order to remain in favor with Bush and his cronnies – the anti-insurrgent field manual that was published by the esteemed military academics selected [...] ...

GOOD GUYS AND BAD GUYS: continuation form UFO Issues Surface 2007-11-03 09:52:39 Picking up on an implication within a statement from Casey, Reagan asks, “Are you telling me there are different races or species, as you said, visiting Earth at the same time?” “Can you tell me how many different species have visited us?” Reagan asks. The Caretaker states, “At least five.” Reagan: “Are they all friendly?” An advisor who is [...] ...

Presidential debate brings UFO issue to the surface 2007-10-31 22:41:46 Steve Hammons October 31, 2007 Toward the end of the televised Democratic presidential candidates’ debate on MSNBC Tuesday, Oct. 30, NBC’s Tim Russert asked Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich about published reports that he had once seen a triangle-shaped unidentified flying object. Kucinich stated briefly that, yes, he did see something that was unidentified (at least to him), [...] ...

The Mythology of the Free-market 2007-10-30 15:28:38 Libertarianism never considers that the conditions it identifies as the free-market are not a manifestation, resulting from the absence of regulation, but the obfuscation of contravening sociopolitical mechanisms that have come to be obscured through the naturalization of a particular juridical-legal discourse, which has been endorsed and promoted so vehemently and so effectively, as the 'natural' socio-economic order, that we have lost sight - and hence forgotten - that these conventions were created through social processes, whereby these conditions were the emergent byproducts of social control and regulation. In short, the free-market is a historically situated specification of norms and values – as well as political operations, in which power is deployed by social interests in a social field of contending agencies. ...

Political America: In Search of a Common Conscience 2007-10-28 17:48:03 As much as I’ve always enjoyed Ogden Nash, the poet, I must confess that many of his writings have impacted me as if coming from the wisdom of a philosopher rather than the wit of an accomplished light verse mechanic. And, among his many vignettes, there is one that seems to have stayed inscribed [...] ... America