The Political Inquirer

Food riots in Haiti have caused the ouster of the sitting Prime Minister there, and if Somalia had a functioning government it, too, would be be in collapse. We are told it is the price of oil, the diversion of corn supplies from the food-chain into ethanol production, and restrictions on exports that are [...]

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Journalism is biased, and always has been. The concept of the “fourth estate” as representative of the common people dates back to the French Revolution, and is the first acknowledgement that news reporting has a distinct viewpoint. Over the course of time, corporations began to invest in newspapers (as advertisers), which induced publishers [...]

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“You say you want a Revolution?
We’d all love to change the world.”
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I was thinking of Quasimodo when I heard that another Waco was brewing last week. The sad old hunchback grabbed the condemned Esmeralda off the gibbet, and fled back to Notre Dame shouting “Sanctuary! Sanctuary!” Back in Texas, a couple of morally hunchbacked ogres were likewise crying “Sanctuary!” as the Texas Rangers were [...]

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Wars end. Despite the intent of the United States government to wage unending wars on poverty, drugs, and terrorists, history tells us wars always end.
Sometimes it is at the eleventh hour, upon the precipice of some fresh armageddon. Other times the end comes after the holocaust.
We have been five years in Iraq. [...]

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Inflation will save us. The dollar is in china syndrome, and interest rates are approaching zero, but what appears to be an ugly duckling is the goose that will lay the golden egg.
A long decline in housing prices (in real dollars), dating from the 1987 stock crash and lingering through the rest [...]

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Admiral William “Fox” Fallon resigned as head of CentCom on Tuesday, reportedly in protest over the President’s push for war with Iran.
The Esquire article that heralded the admiral’s demise was labeled everything from a mis-fired puff piece to a gross act of insubordination, and as usual, the real story — War with Iran Imminent! [...]

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How much mileage does John McCain expect to get on entering the White House from his image as a Crazy Man? Do our enemies step back out of respect for the brutalized war prisoner, out of fear of his rightousness?

Richard Nixon ascended to the Presidency when we still faced the Red Menace, and the [...]

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Blatantly calling for a New Fascism in his Wisconsin acceptance speech, John McCain declared Tuesday night that, “we must re-think and re-build the structure and mission of our military, the capabilities of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies, the purposes of our alliances, the reach and scope of our democracy, the capacity of all branches [...]

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Here’s how to fix the primaries:
Kick off with Iowa and New Hampshire, like normal.
The next state, and one that wanted an early slot, should be Florida. If they’re going to campaign in January, it might as well be in Florida. A candidate could cover most of the state in a couple of weeks [...]

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He is the new face of the Anti-War Movement. His appearance is timely, coming at the dark hour that ushers in new NATO policies of nuclear first-strikes. His advent is heralded by plans to increase the size of our standing army. And the new face of the Anti-War movement greets the latest [...]

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The ghost of JFK loomed large this week, one week since fellow martyr MLK took center stage. Standing in for his brother, Ted backstopped Caroline’s endorsement and gave the eastern establishment seal of approval to Change We Can Believe In.
Stopping the Clinton sequel, “Momma’s Back! (and Daddy’s off his leash),” is still [...]

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