Influencing, countering and ultimately defeating regional threat networks in the greater Middle East will require a “whole-of-many-nations’-governments approach,” a US commander said during a conference call yesterday with bloggers and online journalists. Faced with threats from Al-Qaeda and similar groups, as well as a nonspecific “malign Iranian influence,” US and allied strategic planners are expanding [...]
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August 21st, 2008 by Jim Kouri
The Sunday morning news shows — on cable and broadcast television –covered the bitter-sweet farewell between arguably the two most powerful leaders in the world: President George W. Bush and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
While President Bush may have looked into Putin’s eyes and seen his soul, I’ve had — along with other pundits — the opportunity [...]
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April 6th, 2008 by Jim Kouri
Confirmation that our success comes from the morality of Judeo/Christian ethics.
And that socialism accomplishes the opposite of what it says it does, for very good reasons of which there are many, and they are not surmountable as they are fundamental to it. To surmount them is to no longer have socialism. So these solutions are [...]
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March 7th, 2008 by artfldgr
The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches
and seizures, shall not be violated
Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;
nor shall any State deprive any person of life, [...]
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January 29th, 2008 by artfldgr
My grandfather knew it. Many did, after all, historically speaking anyone care to list out what has happened to many soviet leaders?
They failed to get Hitler, but it seems that eventually they did get Stalin.
To quote the Mel Brookes 10,000 year old man when he told the story of the lightning hitting “Phil”
“There is something [...]
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January 10th, 2008 by artfldgr
Well, one thing you can say for some throughout history… “At least their consistent”.
Today Time Magazine has once again decided to walk in its prior footsteps….
What do i mean? Easy, I mean that Person of the Year has been selected, and the award goes to Putin!
So what does that have to do with [...]
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December 19th, 2007 by artfldgr
It is interesting that the peoples that feminists have used as a foundation for their ideology, have decidedly different opinions than the followers do.
“A world where men and women would be equal is easy to visualize, for that precisely is what the Soviet Revolution promised.” - Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (New York, Random [...]
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December 11th, 2007 by artfldgr
Even Russia has a comment on Lawrence Summers and the issue. What does Pravda mean anyway?
the article can be found here
Men are smarter than women, according to a controversial new study that adds another cinder to the fiery debate over whether gender impacts general intelligence.
“For 100 years there’s been a consensus among psychologists that [...]
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December 7th, 2007 by artfldgr
Does that title get you? Do you know what these things are and whats happening to cause such terms to fit together?
I guess that there are probably a lot of people out there who think they are educated, and well informed. Though if I put those four words down in a list and asked [...]
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October 27th, 2007 by artfldgr