The Political Inquirer

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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A reader (Norm) posed the question to us at the Political Inquirer, “What if Obama gets elected? What will the impact of the country be?” It will be hard to say for certain, none of us on the staff are prophets (though some might claim to be).
I think the first thing that we will see [...]

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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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Ron Paul’s book, The Revolution: A Manifesto is officially out today. Pick up a copy if you’re interested in seeing the reasoning behind his (and my) belief in peace, prosperity, capitalism, and small government.

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Norm sent an article my way from TIME about the Bush administration appealing the classification of visitor’s logs as public information. I can’t speak for the opinions of others on the site but I feel that virtually everything our government does should be public information–especially visitor’s logs. What if the President were conspiring with leaders [...]

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Most of us know, and have heard the saying ad nauseum, that if you do not know history, you are doomed to repeat. Despite the fact this saying is said so frequently, it seems to go through one ear, and right out the other, as we pay very little attention to history. Technology may change, [...]

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Brzezinski has a good take on getting out of the Iraq war, which I largely agree with, particularly here:
Contrary to Republican claims that our departure will mean calamity, a sensibly conducted disengagement will actually make Iraq more stable over the long term. The impasse in Shiite-Sunni relations is in large part the sour byproduct of [...]

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Segway inventor Dean Kamen is looking to re-invent the prosthetic arm. IEEE Spectrum caught up with Kamen and one of his “test pilots,” to see the robotic arm (named after Luke Skywalker’s articficial limb) in action.

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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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On Easter Sunday the number of deaths caused from the Iraq War comes to a total of 4,000. The AP article on the new record is incorrect in its analysis:
…a grim milestone that is likely to fuel calls for the withdrawal of American forces as the war enters its sixth year.
The push for withdrawal has [...]

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A quick look at The Boston Globe’s report on Obama and his evolving stance on the Iraq war will quickly show that we will not be withdrawing out of Iraq in 2009. Or 2010. Or 2011. Obama himself said in a debate in 2007 that he will not commit to withdrawal by 2013. The reason? [...]

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