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Political philosophies, ideologies, strategy, tactics…

…and then the Prez can deliver an adhan from the White House balcony!

by CK MacLeod Posted on March 2, 2012

If we had significant constituency of Islamophobic nut-jobs in the U.S., I might be less positive about the idea. Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Religion, War | Tagged Islamophobia, Obama | 8 Comments

Fools, Their Money, and Citizens More and More United

by CK MacLeod Posted on February 21, 2012

the post-CU world is a world in which the 0.0001% are financing a remarkably effective satire undermining themselves and their chosen spokespeople: Diminishing returns as morality play. Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Citizens United, Foster Friess, Republican Party, Sheldon Adelson | 13 Comments

Even if it ain’t brokered, you still can’t fix it

by CK MacLeod Posted on February 18, 2012

The real nightmare is already ongoing, and everyone in the family knows it: of a party splintering, each main ideological element of the Reagan Era coalition exposed both as insufficient on its own terms and as unable to discover a compelling rationale for uniting with its customary allies. Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Broken Convention, Republican Party | 11 Comments

and in Food News

by fuster Posted on February 3, 2012

The World Food Program estimated in March that a quarter of the country’s 24 million inhabitants needed food aid and that a third of children were chronically malnourished.

Posted in Culture & Entertainment, Music, Politics, Religion, Sodom & Ganesha, TV, War | Tagged a bowl of steam__________and a smile | Leave a comment

Israel Third, To Be Precise

by CK MacLeod Posted on January 31, 2012

No one discussing the notion of “Israel First,” as no one once upon a time discussing the mirror notion of “America First,” can fully comprehend the paradox embedded in the concept except materially, except in the actualization of their ignorance – their, your, my, our ignorance – via politics. Continue reading →

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Religion, War | Tagged Israel First | 15 Comments

Commodity of Commodities

by CK MacLeod Posted on January 27, 2012

Avoiding climate catastrophe requires of democratic capitalism that it embrace its own absolute contradiction – catastrophically. Continue reading →

Posted in Philosophy, Politics | Tagged Climate Change, Democratic capitalism, Socialism | 9 Comments

Egyptians Notice That Sharia Law is Taking Over Oklahoma

by fuster Posted on January 21, 2012

and blame Mubarak for supporting Obama. Sharia in Oklahoma, Abdel Moneim Said: I must admit I was surprised by news from Oklahoma that a US federal appeals court upheld a state court ruling in Case 755 (Awad v Ziriax) reversing … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | 16 Comments

Mitt v Newt: Triumph of the Negative Will

by CK MacLeod Posted on January 21, 2012

To re-state the theme of an earlier post written during the previous Newtening, the further Gingrich goes, the more the “massive external event” must be considered to have already undermined the position to which he ascends. He already represents crisis within the Republican Party. Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged 2012, Gingrich, Romney | 9 Comments

The traditionalists do not just believe that the word "marriage" should be taken to refer to the union of a man and a woman, and they do not admit of a distinction between a popular or common usage and a legal one: They insist, over and over if rarely with explanation, likely under instruction by pollsters and spin-sters, that marriage is between a man and a woman. State and the law, they believe, should reflect this primary denotation, not merely because a one-to-one correspondence between common or traditional usage and the law is preferable in the abstract, but because the heterosexual union is biologically and organically the basis of human life, making any attitude towards it other than reverence both inhuman and morbid, all the more ominous as a principle of the state. →

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- CK MacLeod:
  You mean in the sense that the crisis of the late ’70s was handled by putting the US economy as a whole on the credit card? Just speculating here, but we can use...
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  It ain’t so much where he came from, it’s where he’s going……… saying ” it may have to be done” doesn’t the fact that it can’t...
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Category Archives: Politics

…and then the Prez can deliver an adhan from the White House balcony!

Fools, Their Money, and Citizens More and More United

Even if it ain’t brokered, you still can’t fix it

and in Food News

Israel Third, To Be Precise

Commodity of Commodities

Egyptians Notice That Sharia Law is Taking Over Oklahoma

Mitt v Newt: Triumph of the Negative Will

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