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Rubber Chicken T.V. ad against Pelosi
The outrageous new TV ad from Shirley Golub, who is so courageously challenging Nancy Pelosi for the Democratic party congressional nomination in San Francisco, speaks for itself. It's an absolute...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-01 06:00:03 Average Rating:  | Views: 48 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow." Ambrose Bierce
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"Americans love their captivity. There's no responsibility. When...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 07:38:58 Average Rating:  | Views: 26 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Is War With Iran Imminent?
This time, it's more than a rumor...
By Justin Raimondo
The indications of an imminent attack – the latest incident, the steady stream of accusations coming from the U.S....
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 07:40:35 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 25 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Distant Echoes of Vietnam
The Day I Lost My Innocence
By William P. O'Connor
Old men make the wars, but they don’t fight the fight. The congressmen that declare war are too important to fight, too...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 07:41:57 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 33 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Since I Gave Up Hope, I Feel Better
By William Blum
Food riots, in dozens of countries, in the 21st century. Is this what we envisioned during the post-World War Two, moon-landing 20th century as humankind's glorious future?...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 07:42:59 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 33 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Democrats Okay Funds for Covert Ops
Secret Bush "Finding" Widens War on Iran
By Andrew Cockburn
Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 07:56:28 Average Rating:  | Views: 34 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Elite Policy And The "Axis of Evil"
By Noam Chomsky
The official story right now is that after having been forced to accept an agreement on dismantling its nuclear weapons facilities, North Korea is again trying to evade its...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 08:00:29 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 30 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 08:01:28 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 36 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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"Today, I Weep For My Country"
The speech given by Sen. Robert Byrd
Exactly five years ago, on the afternoon of March 19, 2003, mere hours before bombs began falling in Baghdad, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., gave a speech on...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 08:02:47 Average Rating:  | Views: 57 | # Comments: 2 | Tags:
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"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age: Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
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"For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-07 06:28:52 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 26 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-07 06:31:55 Average Rating:  | Views: 34 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:27:16 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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"In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:28:32 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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"None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it."- Hubert...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:29:37 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 15 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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"If we do go to war, psychological operations are going to be absolutely a critical, critical part of any campaign that we must get involved in.": General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:30:56 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:32:52 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 24 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Like Silt in a River
"What no one seemed to notice . . . was the ever widening gap . . . between the government and the people. . . And it became always wider. . . the whole process of its coming into...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:34:36 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Tired of Fear
I am sick...and I'm tired....
By Hugh Lipsius
01/28/06 "ICH" -- -- I am sick of being told who and what I must fear. For over two centuries now, our administration in...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:36:58 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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"If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:39:43 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 22 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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"Today, I Weep For My Country"
The speech given by Sen. Robert Byrd
Exactly five years ago, on the afternoon of March 19, 2003, mere hours before bombs began falling in Baghdad, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., gave a speech on...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:40:48 Average Rating:  | Views: 33 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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