Special Interest Group on CRAP

In January I made a bet with a friend of mine that any Republican candidate for president will beat any Democrat, provided he gave me 2 to 1 odds. Since then, everyone has been assuming that the democrats would win because Bush looks so weak, but all along I have been thinking about what I [...]

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Once again the world seems to be agog about the olympics. I can appreciate the interest that people have in watching the best people in the world perform in sports, but what bugs me most about the olympics is the constant drumbeat of nationalism that pervades it. I think that the American public likes the [...]

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Today is Memorial Day in the United States. The intent of Memorial Day is to honor and remember those who have perished in military service to their country. Those who pay the ultimate price for their country are owed a debt of gratitude that is unquestioned. Our military services operate for two purposes. The primary [...]

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As the democratic presidential nomination process winds down, it’s probably a good time to reflect on what happened along the way. In the beginning there were a lot of candidates (Biden, Dodd, Edwards, Richardson, etc). When the California primary rolled around, I ended up voting for Hillary Clinton, although it was a close call. At [...]

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I recently was around someone who used the term “war on terror”. I almost started ranting, but decided to pause and think about why that term bugs me so much. Sometimes it’s better to think before you speak. I was reminded of it again when I heard a talk by Thomas Barnett from the TED [...]

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There have been a lot of complaints about Hillary having voted for funding the war in Iraq, and I’m sure that she regrets that decision just as those who voted for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution regretted it later. It’s easy to forget but at the time, the Bush administration was spreading lies about WMD [...]

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Before you view this blog posting, perhaps I should be asking for your papers. It seems that Rudy wants me to.

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Some people are shocked when they hear me say this. That’s because they don’t like to have something they believe in called evil. When I say that religion is evil, I don’t mean that religion has no value whatsoever. I mean that the net world effect from religion is to promote evil. That’s odd, given [...]

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There is no better example of crap than the current administration calling the war in Iraq the “war on terror”. It’s a great tragedy that the president was able to mislead the American public into thinking that mounting a military offensive to oust Saddam Hussein from power would result in a world safe from terror. [...]

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