Category Archives: america

Guns For Everyone

January 17, 2013 – 12:32 pm

Obsessed with twelve year-old Jodie Foster portrayal of the child prostitute John Hinkley saw TAXI DRIVER fifteen times in a row. He stalked the actress to Yale and wrote her many letters including this one from 1981. “Over the past seven months I’ve left you dozens of poems, letters and love messages in the faint […]

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In The Face Of The Enemy

January 13, 2013 – 9:51 pm

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=chuck+hagel+quote+israel&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1357700187,d.dmQ&biw=1213&bih=627&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=qG7zUPOaA4680AGZ24HwCg On January 7, 2013, President Barack Obama announced his choice of former Senator Chuck Hagel to replace ex-Spook Leo Panetta as Secretary of Defense. While a top GOP leader during his years in the Senate, conservatives were quick to attack Hagel for his statement, “”Let me clear something up here, if there’s any doubt […]

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Xenophon’s March

January 13, 2013 – 1:41 pm

After 9/11 then-President GW Bush’s security advisers targeted Afghanistan for revenge. The Northern Alliance was armed by CIA secret shipments to fight the Taliban and B-52s pounded al-Qaaspringda bases through the war-torn nation. NATO troops backed the new government with the USA providing the majority of combatants. An easy victory was never in the cards, […]

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The Reefer Standard For The Dollar

January 7, 2013 – 7:21 pm

Bloomberg News’ Josh Barro congratulated GOP Representative Jerrold Nadler’s suggestion that President Barack Obama solve our ‘alleged’ debt crisis by minting a trillion-dollar coin. “I’m being absolutely serious. It sounds silly but it’s absolutely legal. And it would normally not be proper to consider such a thing, except when you’re faced with blackmail to destroy […]

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Steve, You Suck

January 7, 2013 – 6:27 pm

Last autumn I sat in the Fort Greene Observatory and thought that the hurricane season had been very kind to the Eastern Seaboard, then in late-October a Category 1 storm traveled up the Gulf Stream to smote New Jersey with a lunar-intensified tidal surge. The coast was devastated by the water and wind. Governors sought […]

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