Category Archives: War

Senator Sundwall

Posted on November 9, 2011 by eric

Last night, Election Day, our little band of libertarian brothers at the CDLP agreed to share the administrative burden of the LPNY petition drive in 2012. That usually entails five weeks of collecting signatures in the middle of a hot … Continue reading →

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Why Penn won’t be President

Posted on September 22, 2011 by eric

When the American system collapses it won’t be God or the country’s fault.  It will be the President.  The guy (or perhaps someday gal) who happens to be sitting in an oval office on 1600 Pennsylvania as the rioters are … Continue reading →

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There goes the neighborhood

Posted on May 2, 2011 by eric

It’s hard for me to internalize any emotional fury with regard to the announcement that Osama bin Laden is dead. For the last ten years the United States has poured trillions of dollars into the ‘defense’ of the nation because … Continue reading →

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Waiting for the last leak . . .

Posted on November 29, 2010 by eric

As thousands of US diplomatic cables are ‘leaked’ to the world and thousands of journalists scramble to make sense of them, the open ended hand wringing, denunciation and cries of murder will be constant this week. While some will claim … Continue reading →

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rollins, woodstock may 15, 2009 – spoken word

Posted on May 16, 2009 by eric

Henry Rollins and I will never hangout and smoke pot together. But in the dream I had the night after seeing him perform a two hour ‘spoken word’ at the Bearsville theater near Woodstock NY, we got along marvelously and … Continue reading →

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Hello Rapture, Goodbye Dinosaurs

Posted on October 7, 2008 by eric

Once again a comment response turned into good enough for an ‘Entry’ . . . It’s about all I have left in me any more this cycle. Some commenters on the CapCon want politicians and staff writers to know that … Continue reading →

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Issues, Issues ?

Posted on September 4, 2008 by eric

This initially started as a response to a local blog comment and morphed into something else . . . . Issues ? Issues ? 1. An undeclared war transformed into an unending occupation. Parties responsible ? Republican & Democrat. 2. … Continue reading →

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Blame the Anarchists

Posted on August 26, 2008 by eric

I thankfully had other pursuits at the end of my long summer rather than watch the Democratic National Convention. I could care less about the Michelle speech or the Kennedy idolatry, but that would require energy spent when it wasn’t … Continue reading →

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The Dulgardums

Posted on April 22, 2008 by eric

While it may be acceptable to engage in Limbaugh tactics when it comes to smelly liberals and the like, Dulgar displays his ignorance of the Third Party fight as well as any apologist for the Red & Blue. It may indeed be inevitable that the two parties will win based on the winner take all aspect of the system, but it is by no means certain that alternative issues and concerns will be well placed in the mainstream sensibilities. Asking activists to play in the muck of pluralism is one thing, but projecting one’s own failure is another
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Son of Mountains by Yassin Aref

Posted on April 18, 2008 by eric

My Life as a Kurd and a Terror Suspect There is a Fox News meme that has been going around since early March which includes the case of Yassin Aref. It has provided fodder for every right wing blogger who … Continue reading →

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