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Controversial Defamation Bill passes by a single vote

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Ben

The Irish Government passed by a single vote the Defamation Bill after the Government nearly suffered a defeat on an amendment which would have deleted the offense of blasphemy from the Bill.
The bill introduces a new crime of blasphemous libel which the media industry broadly supports. The new law also enables newspapers to offer [...]

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I’m Sorry

Posted on April 7, 2009 by anamericanidiot

Nothing soothes a wound faster than an apology. After a fight it feels exhilarating when your spouse admits fault and offers to make up. The good feelings work both ways and for a time those two little words, “I’m sorry,” make everything better. But what happens when you admit fault when you [...]

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Zo for RNC Chair

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Mike O

With the power to smack down the Democrats Lite in the Party.
(Just lighten up on the embryonic stem cell equivelency, Dude.)

Filed under: Commentary, Economics, Economy, Politics, Republicans, taxation | 2 Comments »

Senator Burris under heat from fellow Democrats

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

The chorus is growing louder against Senator Roland Burris. It is understandable when Republicans call for Burris to resign his United States Senate seat. And while only a handful of Democrats are calling for his resignation, many prominent Democrats are calling for Burris to come clean, including Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.
Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa [...]

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Senator Roland Burris must resign his seat

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

Senator Roland Burris
United States Senator Roland Burris has had a wonderful political career. He has in many ways been a trailblazer for African-Americans seeking higher office. In 1978 he was elected as Illinois State Comptroller, being the first African American elected to statewide office. In 1990, he was elected to another statewide office as Illinois [...]

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Blagojevich puts the bite on Roland Burris prior to naming him to the Senate

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

The Chicago Sun-Times, in an exclusive report, said that former Governor Rod Blagojevich, through his brother Robert, tried to hold up Senator Burris for $10,000. This is not a surprising development in itself, but the problem could be a potentially large one for Burris because he initially failed to report this to the Illinois House [...]

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The Return of Rightwing Paranoia

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Lance

Anthony Gregory points out that conservatives now oppose the state despite Obama enacting Bush-like policies. Most importantly, conservatives must learn to oppose aggressive foreign policy during this era that they are out of power, less they make the same mistakes as last time.
The conservatives [...]

Filed under: Barack Obama, Commentary, Congress, Democrats, Election 2008, Geopolitics, History, Philosophy, Politics | 28 Comments »

Mind Your Own

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Garnet Spy

The pundit mentality is rampant with bloggers and Twitterers and emailers and television and radio commentators who seem compelled to comment about ANYthing, whether it’s their business or not.

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Thoughts on George W. Bush

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Lance

The past eight years have been interesting ones. We have seen an attack on the United States by radicalized Muslims, we have seen one large recession and the beginning of what could be a major depression, we have seen our military send troops to two different countries in large numbers and we have seen China [...]

Filed under: Barack Obama, Commentary, Culture, Economics, Election 2008, Geopolitics, History, News, Philosophy, Politics, Russia | Tagged: | 8 Comments »

Israel continues to kill innocents

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Lance

Israel’s war on Gaza continues to bring innocent lives to an end. The usual American War Party response (as I would have responded even 3 years ago) would be, “well, the Palestinians and insane terrorists are just as happy killing Israeli civilians, they are just getting what they deserve.” That is an immoral and [...]

Filed under: Commentary, Culture, Geopolitics, Israel | 12 Comments »

John Stuart Mill on nationality and representative government

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Lance

This is a chapter from John Stuart Mill’s Considerations on Representative Government, taken from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection. An interesting read and particularly applicable to today’s America.

Chapter 16
Of Nationality, as connected with Representative Government.
A PORTION of mankind may be said to constitute a Nationality if they are united among themselves by [...]

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In defense of Caroline Kennedy, the next United States Senator from the state of New York

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

I am more than a little irritated with this Caroline Kennedy controversy. What is the issue? Qualifications some say. Nonsense. Caroline Kennedy attended and graduated from Radcliffe College. She also went on to receive a law degree from Columbia Law School. And that would be enough to qualify a person for the United States Senate.
But [...]

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The Round Table

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Lance

“When the Round Table is broken every man must follow Galahad or Mordred; middle things are gone.”
-C.S. Lewis
A writer at the journal First Things gives an explanation in this article:
“His point was that the time may come when the societal bonds are so ruptured that forceful confrontation will become necessary with those who, until then, [...]

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Gas prices might hit a dollar a gallon soon

Posted on December 6, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

Gasoline prices may hit the $1.00 mark soon.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Oil prices hit four-year lows Friday as employers cut the highest number of jobs in 34 years. The continuing decline in prices is so dramatic and so sudden that it is raising the prospect that gas prices could soon fall below $1 a gallon.
The [...]

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Sarah Palin snubs Oprah and it appears Palin is smarter than we all think

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

Sarah Palin nevers ceases to amaze me. When she first sprung on the national scene I just thought “What a joke.”
It’s no joke, my friends.
Lately, she snubbed Oprah in an obviously calculated political motivation and I can’t tell you what that is but the important thing is she thinks she knows. Sarah Palin is for [...]

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When investing in the “Stock Market,” expect the unexpected

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

Maybe I am an eternal optimist but I believe the stock market is getting ready to move. It is not just the optimist in me that believes this. As an investor (I am not a trader and there is a crucial difference) I see the upside as unlimited. Well at least new highs, then higher [...]

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Gas prices fall below $2.00 a gallon: Great news or is it? Deflation?

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

After seeing gas prices nearing the $5.00 a gallon not long ago, to watch this precipitous drop in prices to under $2.00 a gallon one might assume that is great news. But is it great news.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It took gas prices more than three years to rise from $2 to a record high [...]

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Colin Powell will endorse Obama making him unstoppable

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

One of my more popular posts was “Barack Obama and Colin Powell would be an unstoppable team. In it I argued that Barack Obama should select Colin Powell as his Vice-Presidential running mate, thus making Obama/Powell an unstoppable, landslide winner. I still believe that would have been a great ticket. But so would have Obama/Clinton [...]

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Barack Obama on the right track to victory

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

After three debate performances Barack Obama has convinced the nation he is “presidential material” and now has the edge to become the next President of the United States. All the polls are pointing into Obama’s direction as he now has the edge and leads in every state that John Kerry won, according to The Rasmussen [...]

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Sarah Palin, there I said it again

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

My boycott of mentioning the name Sarah Palin is finally over. I even used “Sarah Palin” as a tag and not “John McCain’s running mate.” Lance was correct when he pointed this out. This campaign, my friends, is not about Sarah Palin. We really don’t want her knocked off the ticket. She is an asset [...]

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