Author: Steven D

Dowd, Robert Gibbs and “The Left”

In a rather strange and rambling column in which Maureen Dowd manages to attack Robert Gibbs, the “lefties” and Obama all at the same time there is a single nugget of truth or near truth where she quotes Gibbs recent...

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When You Lose the Grunts …

… you’ve already lost the war: After months of deadly and often demoralizing fighting alongside mediocre Afghan forces in one of the Taliban’s most intractable strongholds outside Kandahar city, the Americans...

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How to Protest Tyranny: Burn the Flag

Protest tyranny by burning the “flag.” Which flag? Why, this one: Read on for why you should consider this action on 9/12/2010. Tyranny is a word that people throw around an awful lot these days. And I will be the...

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Taser Use Way, Way Up in Chicago

What did law enforcement ever do before tasers arrived on the scene? Indeed, what did the police do in Chicago before the beginning of this year? Because the Chicago Police have not just doubled their use of tasers since earlier...

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Russia is Burning

We usually hear of wildfires in California and the American West, or Australia, or the Mediterranean (especially Greece) for those are areas of drought and heat and wind and brush and trees that become tinder easily. But in...

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