The Political Inquirer

This news isn’t being thrown around in the main stream so I think it is necessary to put it out to folks.
Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia’s deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has brought the prospect of war “very close”, a minister of ex-Soviet Georgia said on Tuesday.
Separately, in comments certain [...]

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From Norm, a story posted at FreeRepublic:
A Chicago pol’s wife gets a 200 grand salary bump (almost tripling her compensation) and a year later hubby seeks to channel a million bucks to the wife’s employer. Good old time Chicago poltics, right?
Apparently not, because the candidate in question is running on a platform of change, and [...]

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Good article at RadGeek on the militarization of the police over the last twenty years. Here, cops have nothing better to do than catch people speeding while they refuse to try to bust drug houses or solve the real crimes. I have spoken to a friend in Europe (Sweden to be exact) and he said [...]

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To take a subject from a discussion I was reading, I want to bring up the Pledge of Allegiance:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.“
The pledge I recited my whole life [...]

Filed under: Commentary, Culture, History, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged: Edward Bellamy, Pledge of Allegiance | 3 Comments »

As most of you know, I am generally against the war in Iraq. I favor protests against the United States’s foreign policy, and agree with Representative Ron Paul on how foreign policy should be conducted. I do not, however, condone Code Pink. They are, in my view, a whacky organization not bent on remembering the [...]

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“The race is close to over. If Mrs Clinton chooses to drag it out, it is hard to see how she could continue later than May 20th. By then, three more states will have voted: Kentucky, West Virginia and Oregon. The first two are strong for her, the last for him, but they are all [...]

Filed under: Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Politics | 1 Comment »

Steve Hargreaves at CNN Money thinks that $120 oil is good because it will force us to start looking at alternative energy. If this were a normal market without government intervention, that would be the case. However, since governments have legalized cartels like OPEC, supply and demand does not work correctly in the oil market–government [...]

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Sadly, I think Paul Begala is right. Democrats just cannot win without the working “blue collar” votes–if Obama can’t pick up enough of those, he will still get 45% of the vote but lose in a Dukakis-type fashion. Begala “The Forehead” had this to say:
On Tuesday night, we mentioned the dustup between two Democratic pundits, [...]

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Brian LePort has arranged for two of his friends to begin a “debate” next week on atheism, theism, and their respective roles in society and government. If everything goes well, the questions and arguments will be posted here next week and should stir some interesting debate.

Filed under: Religion, Science | 2 Comments »

(Photo: Larry Downing / Reuters / MSNBC)
A picture is worth a thousand words.

Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Election 2008, Geopolitics, John McCain, Politics, Republicans | 3 Comments »

Interesting list that Norm sent me for Obama, the one below it is a list of Clinton lies that I found and put up as well. The Obama list is a bit longer, but please add your own list of lies that either of these two candidates have made, could make for some interesting discussion:
Obama’s [...]

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Somehow I never thought of this (From the Angry Economist):
First is that there are sources of huge amounts of oil which are not profitable to extract when the Saudis are dumping oil. Second is that nobody is going to invest in these oil sources unless it looks like they can successfully sell their oil. [...]

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