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If a van load of people showed up at your house with guns, turned off your electricity, cutoff your garbage service, and then drove around the house to make sure none of your neighbors tried to fight them, would you greet them as liberators?
What if the head guy had a Jesus complex, and constantly made [...]

THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ: PLEA FOR MORE TROOPS (L.A. Times)

U.S. commander for northern Iraq cites the growing violence in Diyala province.
By Peter Spiegel, Tina Susman and Garrett Therolf, Times Staff Writers May 12, 2007

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Civics & Society · Nation · News You Might Have Missed · May 10, 2007

Crowded jails from the Mexican border to North Carolina have prisoners packed into cells, sleeping in day [...]

I’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating.
The Democratic leadership has got to stop playing this political game. It’s not very becoming.
Has sending the bill to President Bush calling for a withdrawal date (and peanuts) worked for them politically?
Yes, of course it has. The American people are unhappy with the conduct [...]

Libertarians’ silver lining
The third party may not have much electoral success, but its free-market ideals are becoming popular.

By Brian Doherty, BRIAN DOHERTY is a senior editor at Reason magazine and the author of “Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement.”March 25, 2007

LIBERTARIANISM may seem hopelessly marginalized in American politics. [...]

The-G-Blog has noticed a trend among the readers here.
A lot of people seem to be unhappy with both major parties, no matter what your persuasion.
I’d say that these people have very good reasons, and I’d tell them I’d agree with them on a lot of them.
And then I hear “Ron Paul can’t win. Gravel, won’t [...]

Vice President Cheney, fresh on the ground in Iraq, is telling The Iraqi governent “Its Game Time”.
Isn’t it way past game time? Wasn’t game time in 2003? This is not a game, Mr. Vice President, this is war.
So basically, The Vice President is starting to say what Democrats have been saying for years. That seems [...]

This is a repost of my 1st ever blog. It was on my personal myspace page. I saw the ban mentioned on a Libertarian for President’s website, so I thought I’d post it here. The dates have changed, but I think its still fairly accurate:
President Bush, last Friday, signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act [...]

Senator Sam Brownback (R -KS) supports the Three-State-Solution. Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) has been talking about this strategy for years.
Independent news is talking about it.
The Corporate media (CNN-Time WARNER, FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC -MSNBC, COX Media, etc), well they don’t really report the news anymore..
The Three-State Solution would break Iraq into 3 separate states with [...]

George Tenet has something to say. And he wants to make sure everyone knows it.
1) He did not jump up and down and tell President Bush that WMDs were a “slam dunk”. I mean, he did tell President Bush that the case for the war with Iraq was a “slam dunk”, but he did not [...]