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Archive for the 'Foreign policy' Category

Ron Paul Wows in South Carolina

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

I was reading a fringe blogger today, who called Congressman Ron Paul “a fringe candidate” without mentioning him by name. That’s really amazing that a “fringe candidate” could come 3% away from placing 3rd in the first two major primaries of the election season. I’ve had a couple different people tell me this week that [...]

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Six Years of Guantanamo

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Today marks the sixth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, which is holding suspected terrorists, or “enemy combatants” in government-speak– some of them even Americans. I think Guantanamo should be closed, for a few reasons. It seems to be a way of just holding people without letting us ever [...]

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Lew Rockwell writes: “Today? The president moves about like Caesar Augustus, with a vast, graded court of civil and military aides, doctors, secretaries, valets, hairdressers, makeup artists, bodyguards, drivers, baggage handlers, cooks, food tasters, Praetorian guards, snipers, centurions, bulletproof limos, a portable hospital, and an armored rostrum. And that’s when he travels in the United [...]

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Final Post for Andrew Olmsted

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Andrew Olmsted kept a blog for close to five years, before he stopped posting around last February when he realized that his writing may have gone against Department of Defense guidelines for military personnel. He was sent to Iraq in July, and while there, he started posting at the Rocky Mountain News with DOD approval. [...]

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