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The author is a parent.  He served in the cold war as a potential victim and as a weapons designer.

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0 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 88 Comments, 1 Diaries, 0 Polls

88 comments


Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 10:52:24 AM

Diary: "David Sirota is right about the idiocracy"

What's wrong with SUVs


Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 10:46:46 AM

Article: "McChrystal to Obama: Fogh You; McChrystal Testing the Limits"

When did the generals lose?


Friday, November 20, 2009 at 7:32:28 PM

Article: "President Obama: The Agonizer-in-Chief"

Keeping his promise


Friday, November 20, 2009 at 7:09:15 PM

Quicklink: "$3M Awarded in KBR Rape Case"

It's about time


Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:07:01 PM

Quicklink: "VIDEO: Obama: I'd Fire Afghan Decision Leakers"

If he meant what he said


Friday, November 13, 2009 at 5:02:23 PM

Article: "Get Tough, Obama"

Obama not much better than Bush


Friday, November 13, 2009 at 4:04:53 PM

Article: "Myths of Our Time"

Not all the US is immoral


Friday, November 13, 2009 at 3:57:12 PM

Article: "Myths of Our Time"

Friedman


Friday, November 13, 2009 at 3:51:17 PM

Article: "Myths of Our Time"

The Church was lost


Friday, November 6, 2009 at 4:51:11 PM

Diary: "Something Smells About Fort Hood"

mentally disturbed


Friday, October 30, 2009 at 10:04:09 PM

Article: "Al-Qaeda Outwitted Bush, Neocons"

I'm not so sure


Friday, October 30, 2009 at 9:57:46 PM

Article: "In or Out of Afghanistan"

In other words...


Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 8:00:58 PM

Article: "Our Out-of-Whack Economy and the Happy Talk Propagandists"

Finance


Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 7:56:06 PM

Article: "Redefining the Heavy 7"

bin Laden?


Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 6:07:54 PM

Article: "The Ineptitude of the US Gov't in Continuing the War in Afgh"

The greatest general


Friday, October 23, 2009 at 6:27:17 PM

Article: "Mad as Hell Doctor Part of the Problem in America's Sick Car"

The problem with ROTC


Monday, September 21, 2009 at 12:20:30 PM

Quicklink: "Do You Have the Right to Flip Off a Cop?"

Wasting time


Monday, September 21, 2009 at 11:59:49 AM

Article: "Doctors Aiding Torture"

As bad as this is ...


Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 9:03:26 AM

Article: "The Marines Got it Right - Almost"

The people in your town


Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 8:34:47 AM

Article: "The Marines Got it Right - Almost"

They only tell a hint of truth


Friday, September 18, 2009 at 3:39:54 PM

Article: "A conversation worth considering"

Similar experience


Friday, September 18, 2009 at 2:13:55 PM

Article: "Doctors Aiding Torture"

Other military doctors no better


Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 6:10:58 PM

Article: "Why Propaganda Trumps Truth"

Culpability


Friday, September 11, 2009 at 2:22:41 PM

Article: "Winning "hearts and minds" or committing war crimes?"

Presumed innocent, not innocent


Friday, September 11, 2009 at 2:02:26 PM

Article: "Militarising space: The Fallujah fallacy"

Scary


Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 6:38:00 PM

Article: "The Best Defense Is Offense"

Only sometimes


Monday, August 31, 2009 at 5:37:19 PM

Article: "The Problem of Cosmetic Activism"

Ghandi


Monday, August 31, 2009 at 3:54:35 PM

Article: "Will Spiderman Become a Teabagger? Will Loss Of Super-Hero D"

Is Disney more right wing on war than Marvel?


Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 3:19:42 PM

Article: "Private Health Insurance Companies Increase Healthcare Costs"

Hidden agenda


Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 9:15:04 PM

Article: "The President Should Fight for the Public Healthcare Option"

Format


Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 9:12:54 PM

Article: "The President Should Fight for the Public Healthcare Option"

single payer


Friday, August 14, 2009 at 8:23:55 PM

Article: "Americans Support a Foreign Policy that Targets Terrorism's"

What %


Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 11:09:38 PM

Article: "Pelosi Is An Expert At 'Drowning Out Opposing Views'"

what you can do


Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 6:58:34 PM

Article: "Bush Tortured Children, and America Yawns"

The US never had much of a conscience


Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 12:05:02 AM

Poll: "Poll: Obama Should Rejoin The International Criminal Court-D"

He should join for the world's sake, but not for his


Monday, July 20, 2009 at 11:42:28 PM

Article: "Iran and Israel:"

The House of Saud has may fears


Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 7:37:59 PM

Article: "Tony Judt poses difficult questions"

Disarmament


Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 7:05:29 PM

Article: "We Leave for Gaza Tomorrow; I've Asked the White House to In"

war plan


Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 6:23:21 PM

Article: "Nuclear Weapons Key to Israeli Retention of Captured Territo"

No irony


Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 3:18:14 AM

Quicklink: "Two Days Before 9/11, Military Exercise Simulated Suicide Hi"

Like Pearl Harbor


Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 3:09:37 AM

Article: "Why the resistance to 9-11 truth?- UPDATE"

Basic Reasoning correct


Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 2:45:18 AM

Article: "Chinese Submarine Tangles With Destroyer USS John McCain – I"

US Navy lies, analyst doesn't know.


Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 8:15:51 PM

Quicklink: "Israel's Future Leaders"

Fear is not the issue


Monday, June 8, 2009 at 7:46:32 PM

Article: "Mr. Big is Calling"

Brainwashing is best done while young


Monday, June 8, 2009 at 6:08:13 PM

Article: "The Tone and the Music; Reaction to Obama's Cairo Speech"

Every word in place ... for the Zionists


Monday, June 8, 2009 at 12:54:34 AM

Article: "Financial aid for college: I love this country, but does it"

kill for college


Monday, June 1, 2009 at 4:45:16 PM

Article: "Propagating a Bogus Prediction"

SM Outlook not my local paper


Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 12:05:28 AM

Article: "In the Case of Iraq, a War Story Might Best Take Place on U."

Pulitzer committee supported war


Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 4:31:54 PM

Diary: "How I Beat A Cell Phone Ticket In California"

DUI


Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 4:17:56 PM

Article: "Oakland Police Massacre: A Desperate Act to Avoid Going Back"

tough on people, but encouraging crime


Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 12:01:36 AM

Article: "MLKjr' Condemnation of Predatory Capitalism Again Deleted in"

Obama bought


Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 11:46:26 PM

Article: "Mostly, We are Idiots. So How Did We Elect a Genius?"

The blogosphere is hardly all about Jews and Israel


Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 11:20:23 PM

Article: "Enter the Era of Engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan"

What the US really did in Afghanistan


Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 9:48:04 PM

Article: "Israel and Gaza: an Israeli Perspective (part II)"

Israel did not win


Monday, January 19, 2009 at 2:32:17 AM

Article: "Despite Ceasefire, Iran-backed Hamas Continues Firing on Isr"

missing stats


Monday, January 19, 2009 at 2:02:30 AM

Article: "Israel and Gaza: an Israeli Perspective (part II)"

A Zionist perspective based on lies


Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 7:19:59 PM

Article: "What's Hayden Hidin'?"

A lot more like Hayden


Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 7:08:34 PM

Article: "Dating-age women beware: War is killing off all the eligible"

No it is not


Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 11:53:08 PM

Quicklink: "Report: Military may have to quell domestic violence from ec"

Idiots in the Army?


Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 11:21:01 PM

Article: "Gaza's 9-11: When fighting back isn't an option"

Hamas not to blame


Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 11:12:52 PM

Article: "Five Palestinian sisters killed in Israeli raid on Jabalia"

Bomb Shelters no help


Friday, December 26, 2008 at 7:12:23 PM

Article: "Did Bush Sr. Kill Kennedy and Frame Nixon?"

How the get away with it


Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 2:03:46 AM

Article: "Stalin was a victim"

Soviet v US propaganda


Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 1:58:09 AM

Article: "Bush Firing Disloyal Federal Employees"

Personal v national loyalty


Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 1:47:34 AM

Article: "Fr. Roy Bourgeois may be excommunicated for supporting femal"

Let the Roman Catholic Church wither away


Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 1:36:10 AM

Article: "Obama: No War Crimes Charges Against the War Criminals"

A fair trial could not occur in the US


Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 1:15:22 AM

Article: "Pakistan - A Disinformation Campaign?"

Special Forces Ops


Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 1:07:02 AM

Article: "Extrajudicial Assassinations As Official Israeli Policy"

Policy extends beyond this


Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 10:58:34 PM

Article: "Is Service to Country the Answer?"

"Service"


Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 10:36:07 PM

Quicklink: "Obama's plans for probing Bush torture"

Simple way around a pardon


Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 7:24:26 PM

Article: "For Middle East Peace, Dennis Ross is Not the Change We Seek"

Generous offer - not


Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 1:19:43 AM

Poll: "Poll: Tony Blair To The Hague For Trial-Do You Agree?"

Why the Hague?


Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 2:41:00 PM

Article: "Telling No Lies and Still Not Telling the Truth"

Thank you


Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 2:40:54 PM

Article: "1960 Revisited?"

Too much left out


Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 2:34:28 PM

Article: "The Case for Government Supplied Health Insurance"

Cost and Markets


Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 12:20:08 PM

Article: "An Open letter to CBS"

2 more reasons to promote torture


Friday, October 17, 2008 at 10:13:45 PM

Article: "Colin Powell and other prominent African-American Republican"

Powell and domestic terrorism


Friday, October 17, 2008 at 10:02:52 PM

Article: "Voter Fraud - The Dog that Didn't Bark"

Disenfranchisement of legitimate voters is also fraud


Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 11:49:06 PM

Article: "Pentagon Challenge: Ask Iraqis How Many Have Died"

They did not die for my freedom


Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 11:41:08 PM

Article: "Support Third Party Candidates"

Will your vote count?


Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 9:37:23 PM

Article: "The Broad Umbrella of "Terrorist""

Combat troops in US


Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 7:55:53 PM

Poll: "Poll: Voting the Lesser of Two Evils - A Poll"

Vote for the candidate you really want


Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 1:32:39 PM

Article: "For An Iraq War Memorial on The Mall"

Propaganda


Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 7:03:35 PM

Article: "Do You Have a Free Vote?"

free vote


Saturday, July 21, 2007 at 5:47:57 PM

Article: "Driving a stake in the heart of Conspiracy Theories"

Many conspiracies happened


Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 6:00:03 PM

Article: "Bush Has Photos of Pelosi"

Repubs, Dems both owned


Friday, July 13, 2007 at 4:00:46 PM

Article: "Earth to Bush: "The Chaos in Iraq You Now Decry was Caused B"

re: Earth to Bush


Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 2:53:35 PM

Article: "Political Science 101: the woes of the US presidential syst"

re PS 101

 

 

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