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Category Archives: News

The Limits of Change: What to Expect from Obama on Foreign Policy

Writes antiwar.com’s Justin Raimondo:
“So who’s up for major appointments? A number of names have been floated, some of them Republicans, for key positions like secretary of defense and secretary of state, notably the idea of keeping Robert Gates, the current defense chief, and bringing in Richard Lugar for secretary of state. Both possibilities underscore the [...]

SA Radio – Conservative Ralph Nader

WTMA commentary broadcast 7/1/08:

A wonderful tribute to Ric Flair

There are very few heroes I claim, but this is certainly one of them. As I wrote in my tribute following his final match at Wrestlemania 24:
“A Southern icon, by way of Minnesota; a national treasure, who became such practicing a trade that gets little respect; and a personal hero, in ways he’ll never know. [...]

John McCain’s Friends

“Just when I thought I had written all I needed to concerning the attacks against Barack Obama over his relationships with men like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, one morning I dared to turn my radio dial to The Glenn Beck Program.
Beck’s guest, colonel-turned-commentator Oliver North, said that Wright’s [...]

Video: The Neoconservative Menace

I can’t tell you how much it bothers me how often the terms “conservative” and the even prouder term “reactionary” are used in this video clip. The foreign policy of Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz and co. is pure radicalism, through and through, and has absolutely nothing to do with conservatism, if that term is to be defined [...]

New York Times: “The Dream is Dead” – Maureen Dowd on Neoconservative War Agenda

New York Times
December 12, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
The Dream Is Dead
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON
The man crowned by Tommy Franks as “the dumbest [expletive] guy on the planet” just made the dumbest [expletive] speech on the planet.
Doug Feith, the former Rummy gofer who drove the neocon plan to get us into Iraq, and then dawdled without a plan as [...]