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Obama Reincarnates Nixon in Hustling a “Used War”

I recall how my liberal friends assured me in 2008 that Obama would launch a brave new era in American politics. As Obama unleashes the bombs on Iraq and on Syria, we are back to the same pointless killing that defined the George W. Bush administration.  I hope that more of the folks who courageously […]

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Bombing Syria: Still Crazier Than Hell

I am appalled to see the Obama administration charging blindly and dragging America into another war in Syria.  ISIS looks like a bunch of prize bastards but that is pretty much par for that part of the world.  I have seen no evidence that selective U.S. bombing will beget a new Garden of Eden in that […]

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Obama Foreign Policy Maxim Actually Not Bad

According to Hillary Clinton, the Obama administration’s guiding maxim for foreign policy was “Don’t do stupid shit.” But if that was their lodestar, why did they ever hire Hillary as Secretary of State? Hillary would also have been disqualified for that job if the Obama team relied on Google’s (former) motto: “Don’t be evil.” If the […]

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Syria: Common Sense versus Obama’s Next War

From the January 2014 issue of The Future of Freedom (from the Future of Freedom Foundation) Syria: Common Sense versus Obama’s Next War by James Bovard The Obama administration tottered on the edge of launching a cruise missile attack on Syria this past August and September. Obama hesitated and decided to seek congressional approval before […]

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New NSA Lies Exposed Just Before Obama “Credibility” Speech

To help set the tone for Obama’s lecture to Americans’ tonight about the importance of government credibility, the National Security Agency just released a batch of documents that shows another slop bucket of government lies (covered up by the Obama admin.) I assume that Obama will spend the first five or ten minutes of tonight’s […]

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Syrian Review of my Bush Betrayal

Six years ago, the Syrian newspaper Al-Thawrah reviewed the Arabic edition of Bush Betrayal, published by the Arab Scientific Publishers in Beirut. For some reason, the book evoked more enthusiasm in Syria than it did in some circles in the United States. Never could figure that one out. Here’s the link to the original review, […]

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