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Starship Amerika
President Barack Obama is actually siding with police who want to use GPS devices to track you without a warrant. It always disturbed me when on “Star Trek” the …
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Congress: Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks
(Photo: Kevin Burkett / Flickr) Remember that scene in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” when Jimmy Stewart arrives in the capital for the first time? The freshman …
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Love Hurts
(Photo: yewenyi) I write this in solidarity with the millions who recently marched throughout Europe calling for the media's recognition of women's dignity. The march, which began …
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I Was Banned in Croatia: How a Sci-Fi Author Was Recruited to Keep a President From a War Crimes Indictment
It's not every day a science fiction author is hired to write a presidential biography. But in 1997, I was asked to write one about the president of Croatia, …
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Hedging, Delusion and Dishonesty in Afghanistan
“The Americans have not been honest about this, even among themselves.” That's how Mullah Attullah Lodin, deputy chairman of the High Peace Council of Afghanistan, sees our …
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The Best Remedy for the Price of Gas
There is no magic wand that will bring down the price of gasoline, which has once again crossed the $4 mark in California. But there is a long-term solution …
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Knock, Knock – “It’s the IMF …“
For years we have read reports about the International Monetary Fund telling Mexico, Argentina, Greece, Lithuania, Russia ... whoever... to get their economic house in order. Invariably, these reports …
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The Draft – the Disconnect Between the US Military, Its Wars and the American Public
There's a new push to reinstate a Selective Service draft again. Two mainstream authors familiar with military history have put forth the reasons a reinstituted draft could solve a …
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Beware of Vampire Squids and Their Stadium Schemes
When it comes to media voyeurism and the economic insights it can provide, the ads in Vanity Fair rival Charlie Rose's television program as the best peep show of …
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The Trouble With Trump
Everything we really need to know about the character of Donald Trump was revealed when the wannabe president frivolously accused Barack Obama's late grandparents of committing fraud with his …