Texas Intellectuals and Texas Conmen

Yet another Texas politician, Rob Smith, is railing against "intellectuals."I have a stupid question to ask. How many intellectuals are there in Texas?I am reminded of Poland. There are maybe 800 Jewish people living in Poland; yet the whole country likes to howl about the...

Why America deserves better than Puritan values

A number of conservative politicians keep hearkening back to Puritan settlers as being the true character of America or as representing core American values. There are several huge problems with that stance.First of all, America is a vast nation of 300 million people. The...

Special interest groups = downfall of America

Dad, bless his soul, used to state the title of this article quite frequently. What he was saying by that was: lobby groups for special interest groups manipulate American politics effectively ripping the country apart 'at the seams'. He also questioned the effectiveness of...

Trayvon Martin

It took 3 days for the police to notify the Martin family of the consequences behind their son's death. It took 3 weeks before this story made national headlines. Other than the absolutely tragic story behind ...

Equality Is Not Sameness

One of the longest-running errors in American society is that of equating equality with sameness. This error has been used and continues to be used for extremely destructive, invasive and malicious behaviors - such as for example forcing everyone to be the same person...

Why Progressive Politics Are Supremely American

There are many people in America who refer to some political stances as "un-American." The question becomes, by what standard? America is not a nation that was ever designed to live in a time warp. It is a nation that was intended to grow and develop continuously. And...

Fighting Taliban Is Everyone's Business

For over a decade the United States of America and its NATO allies shouldered most of the burden for fighting Taliban. That is unfair and unrightful. Taliban wants to take over the whole world, not only America. Which means that fighting the Taliban is everyone's business,...

Why Julian Assange should be a hero to conservatives

I made and I continue to make the claim that American conservatives should be supporting Julian Assange. Having preached for decades that the government should be accountable to the taxpayer, the American conservatives should see as a hero a man who informs the taxpayer of...

Should our Constitution be considered sacred? No, of course not.

 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of the U.S. Supreme Court, when asked if Egypt should get a Constitution modeled on the U.S. Constitution stated:  "You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone one since the end of World War...

Magic Within the Military & the CIA

How many readers have heard of Battlefield Illusion?  Some perhaps but I'd argue that unless you have a strong interest in military procedures, this term would not be known to you. My next question is; how...

"How things are supposed to be"

Rick Santorum claims that using birth control is "counter to how things are supposed to be." The problem is, Rick Santorum has no business claiming to speak for how things are supposed to be; and if things were as...

Should our Constitution be considered sacred? No, of course not.

 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of the U.S. Supreme Court, when asked if Egypt should get a Constitution modeled on the U.S. Constitution stated:  "You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone one since the end of World War II....

Parents revolt against public schools using choice option

No matter whether a neighborhood is blue or white collar, parents are demanding a better education for their children than what too many public schools have offered.  Charter schools, parochial schools, and home schools choice have given them the opportunity to decide...

America: lay off Iran

American media, largely controlled by manipulating elitists, has been demonizing Iran, enlarging events to blacken Iran's international image, and generally setting the stage to wage war with Iran. America wake up! What happened last time with Iraq? Exactly the same thing!...

Islamist Propaganda, Achernar and Noreagaa, Debunked

http://sites.google.com/site/ilyashambatwritings/achernar-and-noreagaa-debunked

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