“Class warfare has been going on for decades. Republicans are really good at propaganda. However, they have finally deconstructed themselves. They could only talk generally for so long about cutting the size of the Federal government before their rhetoric caught up to them. Now that their own people are demanding that they walk the talk, [...]
My comments regarding the New York Times story… http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/opinion/going-home-again.html The story about Rod’s sister is certainly a painful tragedy. Emmanuel Levinas, a French philosopher, was a concentration camp survivor. He thought of the other as an absolute singularity and the death of the other as an unrecoverable loss. I am a Dreher also from Louisiana [...]
Eisenhower, Republican, started the Vietnam war and spent a huge amount of money (for the time) on covert operations…it just takes a little research to shoot down most of the Republican myths on the internet. I would use the word “lie” instead of “misstatement” but I do not think they know better so it is [...]
Ken Buck made a comment last night that he makes a distinction between pro-choice and pro-abortion folks. Just as “pro-life” is an intentionally manipulative misnomer so is this distinction. I have made the case on my blog (http://mixermuse.com/blog/2010/01/29/the-greater-good-and-scott-roeder/) that “pro-life” folks are not “pro-life” as they would have you believe. They are really anti-abortion folks [...]
Barbaric ancient cultures ritually sacrificed their young to appease the gods. In the remoteness of those behaviors we cloak our own ritual instincts to sacrifice our youth. First, let me say that my own personal perspective on this has been shaped by first-hand experience of the Vietnam War that effectively destroyed both of my older [...]
Next time you hear this please do NOT let them get away from the “rest of the story”. Both statements above are true. After the Civil War, Southerners hated Republicans (remember Lincoln). They also fought against blacks in the Civil War. The Union used Northern blacks and Southern blacks that escaped slavery. This is why [...]
In President Obama’s recent trip to Afghanistan he told the troops that he would not send troops anywhere that was not “absolutely necessary” (http://frontpagemag.com/2009/10/27/mission-abandoned-%e2%80%93-by-alan-w-dowd/). When President Bush started the war in Afghanistan he justified it as a crusade, vengeance for 911, a Texas style hanging for Al-Qaida and killing the ones responsible for 911. I [...]
This is my response to a Pro-Death comment submitted for this article: House of Representatives Passes Sweeping Health Reform Bill http://www.nea.org/home/38621.htm#btnSubmitComment Original Comment: “I just wanted to let the NEA president know that because of his arrogant opinion I am no longer a member of the NEA. I went to my local NEA office today and [...]
It seems to me that anti-abortion folks have an untenable position if they hold to the idea that some killing is ok. I have debated abortion with many anti-choice folks. I have never found one yet that took the position that killing any human for any reason was wrong. Scott Roeder took the position that [...]
The implied assumption of a “war on terrorism” is that the war will destroy and annihilate terrorists not create more terrorist. This old school thought ignores the lesson of history. A nation can be fought and defeated in war but not an ideology. To the degree that terrorism incorporates an ideology that forces a conflict [...]
