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If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. – James Madison
I agree to this Constitution with all its faults because I think a general government necessary for us, and believe further that this is likely to be well-administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. -- Benjamin Franklin
If you were free of self interest... and very few of us can make that claim... the world would look like a seething madhouse of runaway appetites. -- les visible
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Saturday Night Special:"Historic"Vote Kills Health Care Reform for Another Generation »
Posted by: berkeley 2 hours, 21 minutes ago in Political Opinion
Now, enough House Democrats had publicly committed to voting No on any bill this bad, that it could not pass. On July 30th, 57 of ...
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Noam Chomsky: No Change in US 'Mafia Principle' »
Posted by: berkeley 3 hours, 8 minutes ago in Political Opinion
Chomsky explained that although the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, which was launched under many false pretexts and lies, was a " major crime", many ...
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Ratification of Lisbon Treaty provokes crisis for Britain’s Conservatives »
Posted by: berkeley 1 day, 4 hours ago in Political Opinion
The Czech Republic’s ratification of the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty created a political maelstrom in the UK, exposing major divisions within the Conservative ...
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At Fort Hood, Some Violence Is Too Familiar »
Posted by: berkeley 1 day, 15 hours ago in News
Staff Sgt. Gilberto Mota, 35, and his wife, Diana, 30, an Army specialist, had returned to Fort Hood from Iraq last year when he used ...
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Does U.S. support for the Afghan president really make sense? »
Posted by: berkeley 1 day, 15 hours ago in Political Opinion
Fifty-nine Americans died in October fighting to protect the corrupt Afghan electoral process that resulted in a second five-year term for Hamid Karzai. Since July ...
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Does the Constitution protect prosecutors who fabricate evidence? »
Posted by: berkeley 2 days, 3 hours ago in Political News
"If the court's going to go back to first principles, let's look at the statute Congress passed in 1871. ... This is one of ...
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Who Will Be Sent to Afghanistan? »
Posted by: berkeley 2 days, 16 hours ago in Political Opinion
In a grim November 3rd Wall Street Journal piece (buried inside the paper), Yochi Dreazen reported record suicide rates for a stressed-out U.S. Army ...
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Afghan Carpetbaggers Hit Pots of Gold in Washington »
Posted by: berkeley 2 days, 16 hours ago in Political Opinion
Once upon a time there was an Afghani general named Abdul Rahim Wardak. He had studied in both US and Egyptian military schools before joining ...
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Large corporations sitting on piles of cash »
Posted by: berkeley 3 days, 15 hours ago in Business & Finance
Nucor isn't alone. The balance sheets of large U.S. corporations are for the most part in good shape. Many big companies have piles ...
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Obama's rendition shame | Clara Gutteridge »
Posted by: berkeley 4 days, 6 hours ago in Political Opinion
If the prisoners are being held by captors who routinely engage in torture, the US agents themselves will have no need to engage in coercive ...
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Why Does The U.S. Have An Empire In Asia? »
Posted by: berkeley 5 days, 3 hours ago in Political Opinion
Ambassador Murray learned too much and was fired when he vomited it all up. He saw the documents that proved that the motivation for US ...
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American-Turkish Council to name Armitage as new chairman »
Posted by: berkeley 5 days, 15 hours ago in Political News
Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is getting ready to take over Chairmanship of the American-Turkish Council from Brent Scowcroft who will ...
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Bernard Kerik pleads guilty in influence-peddling case -- latimes.com »
Posted by: berkeley 5 days, 15 hours ago in News
Ex- New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty to charges growing out of accusations that he traded influence for apartment renovations.
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How the Iraq War Destroyed the US Economy »
Posted by: berkeley 5 days, 16 hours ago in Political Opinion
Wars reduce the GDP, destroy jobs, reduce productivity, and increase the trade deficit! If wars are 'bad' for the economy, then how are they sold ...
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Australia Puts Its Refugee Problem on a Remote Island, Behind Razor Wire »
Posted by: berkeley 6 days, 15 hours ago in Political News
The center — opened a few days before Christmas but now nearly full with refugees from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka — has come to symbolize what many ...
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