Author: Steven D

Dictators: A History Lesson for Wingnuts

Dictators typically act without the consent of elected officials. For example, Gaius Julius Caesar as Dictator for Life in Ancient Rome simply passed laws by himself whenever he couldn’t get the Senate to bow down to his...

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The NRO Debates Pakistan

For the curious, a few choice excerpts from the right’s war on terror experts regarding “How do we solve a problem like Islamabad?” VICTOR DAVIS HANSON (Ancient Greek Lover): In the decades past, helping...

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War Crimes on Obama’s Watch?

If foreign troops invaded America, rounded up people seemingly at at random and used war planes to bomb and kill civilians, including children we might consider those actions vile and cruel war crimes. Indeed, I seem to recall a...

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Deep Thought

Carrie Prejean’s topless photos don’t mean she isn’t a good Christian. It was simply her effort to convert gay men into the opposite man lifestyle. Can’t bust her saline enhancement devices for...

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More Thoughts on Pakistan

It would be wrong to call this a civil war. Accurate, but wrong. Better not to talk about it at all. A senior Pakistani government official has urged residents of the Swat valley to flee the troubled region in the northwest...

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