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Those people are dead because we wanted them dead. – Pentagon spokesman on the killing of 93 people in Chowkar-Karaz, fall…
You know you are living in a totalitarian political culture when a respected mainstream journalist at the center of that culture tells…
Reflecting the increasing Americanization of their continent’s politics [1], “progressive” European commentators and politicos have been gushing over U.S. Senator Obama’s (D-IL)…
I just did a critical piece on Emperor Obama’s big Berlin speech last week. Here (pasted in below) is an interesting exchange between…
In completing a recent book on the Barack Obama phenomenon, I found much to dispute in the Obama campaign’s description and…
Perhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary. Rather, every stage of his political…
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