Manny Not Being Manly

The departure of Manny Ramirez could prove to be the cathartic cleansing Red Sox Nation needs.  Or could it be the beginning of another curse?

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Winning the War with Islamic Fanaticism

How does a military power confront the true-believing enemy that is not only willing to die, but actively seeks death as a way of psychologically defeating the superior power it faces?

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Senator Obama, Citizen of the World

European socialists and Middle Eastern Muslims are wildly enthusiastic about Senator Obama, because he styles himself a citizen of the world whose ultimate goal is world government.

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Where stands Nixon?

It may already be too late for McCain to recapture the conservative base of the Republican Party. As with Nixon, McCain seems to believe that Republicans have nowhere else to go but with him. Whoever carries the banner for the party in 2012, and we can only hope it’s a certain charismatic and conservative Louisiana [...]

Did the Surge Work?

The reconciliation occurring in Iraq is largely cosmetic and forced by U.S. pressure.

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The Greens are Going Crazy

Greens are increasingly frantic over the opposition being voiced against global warming, one of the greatest hoaxes in modern history.

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Duly Noted

Obama in Berlin: what is in the package? Russia’s permission is needed to defend Europe. Negotiating by not talking. America as an ally. Leopards and their spots. A convenient pretense: both sides are right. Minority rights and majority protection.

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McCain Has Plenty of Reason to Pick Pawlenty

The fact that Pawlenty not only campaigned as a conservative and won, but then governed Minnesota as a conservative is remarkable.

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The Truth of the Credit Crunch

Easy money and instant gratification was a social phenomenon that took hold of the average American including the anti-war movement “sex, drugs and rock and roll” culture of pleasure now and deal with the consequences later.  And it also took hold of the Banking Industry. 

 

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Absurdistan Weekend Update #5: Liberals Leaving the Reason Reservation for the ObamaNation

More from Bob Stapler.

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An Essay: Brutal Assault at a Minnesota Amusement Park

Once vilified Daniel Patrick Moynihan, before he became a famous senator, got it right a long, long time ago, about root causes of black-on-anybody crimes.  Obama "gets it" but a Twin Cities liberal newspaper does not.  Read on,  and weep.

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Sports Heroes?

John Carlos and Tommie Smith may have been courageous but they were not heroes.

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Parson Moyers’s Prevarication

Bill Moyers's PBS presentation on Cleveland's real estate foreclosure problem was a product, either of economic ignorance, or of deliberate distortion for political purposes.

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Philosophy vs. Reality

How people embracing a philosophy act is more important in evaluating the wisdom and utility of that philosophy than studying all the great minds who came up with it in the first place.

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Change? Looks Like More of the Same

For all his talk of “change,” the only things that seem to change where Obama is concerned are his positions on issues.

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Who Needs NATO?

As NATO readies itself for its seventh decade, it is surely time for the next U.S. administration to consider ending this one-sided relationship.

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Obama calls for a “Terrorists’ Bill of Rights”

"Establishing a Terrorists' Bill of Rights is critical to repairing America's image in the eyes of the world. These same terrorists who have no compunction about murdering thousands of innocent people will surely be moved by my efforts to 're-establish our credibility as a nation committed to the rule of law.'"

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Denying the Politics of Good and Evil: The Right Mix for International Atrocities

If we reserve our full condemnation and any accompanying action for those who have plainly distinguished themselves as evil incarnate, then we are in fact doing nothing more than pretending evil isn’t there.

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Who Knew Tip O’Neill Could Sing & Dance?

According to Tip might be the finest one-man play about an American politician since Give ‘em Hell, Harry.

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Judge-mentally Impaired Should Get Off Michael Savage’s Back

By labeling these less serious or even non-existent problems as mental conditions, it causes society to take authentic ones less seriously.

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Duly Noted

There is a hook at the end of the safety rope. The clash of religions: is it about culture? How to make equalitarian projects fail? Disarmament: is there a plan B? Fiction: North Korean food aid to South Korea. From Mugabeland to Somalia. Where good news is obligatory. Whose business is Flanders?

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Absurdistan Weekend Update #4: Plausible Evidence the Left has left the Reason Reservation

More from Bob Stapler.

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Junk Science Strikes Again

Violence is as violence does, except when it isn’t.

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Big O Losing Big Mo?

To those for whom Obama is an almost religious icon, the thought of him soiling himself by compromising his stances and breaking his promises, is a letdown of almost Biblical proportions.

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Jesse Helms: Remembering a Friend of Israel

Senator John Edwards stated after Senator Helms' passing that, "The people of North Carolina will never forget the work and the kindness and the personal attention that he has given to them." Neither should friends of Israel.

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