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Ruins of Empire: To Live and Fear in Fresno

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Sunday, February 5, 2006. To Live and Fear in Fresno. The home of Hollywood and the vast Gay/Lesbian conspiracy? Yes, but not among the deinzens of L.A. or San Francisco. Instead it sprung up, like a weed in the places in between. Places like Fresno. In the great article by Mark Arax of the L.A. Times magazine West we can see how a community that in many ways is no different that a thousand so communities of middle America was transformed by Fear:. Yeah, we ran them around naked. So what? Fear became the...

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Ruins of Empire: Turkish incursion threatens only part of Iraq still at peace

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Friday, October 12, 2007. Turkish incursion threatens only part of Iraq still at peace. Clipped from news.independent.co.uk. Turkey is threatening to send its troops into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish guerrillas in a move likely to destabilise the one part of Iraq which is at peace. A statement from Mr Erdogan's office said: "The order has been given for every kind of measure to be taken [against the PKK] including, if needed, by a cross-border operation.". H/t to Prof. Cole. Awesome Inc. templ...

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Smart Remarks: July 2003

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Thursday, July 31, 2003. The rationale continues to shift. I'm really beginning to consider. Chatterbox" by Timothy Noah over at Slate. Note: As the main reason given for our entry into this war, it continues to matter a great deal to many of us, Mr. President.). Quoting a piece from Paul Gigot in the Wall Street Journal, Noah reflects:. Isn't it clear that no one argued this because the American public wouldn't have bought it as a primary reason to go to war? Anyway, as the minority party, the Democrats...

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Smart Remarks: What I stand for

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Friday, August 1, 2003. What I stand for. So, you know, I check the Sitemeter to see where you folks are coming from. And lately I've seen a couple from. So I wandered over to see what it was all about. And lo and behold, I'm linked there. Because the owner of the site (Biff the Troll? Kevin the one-armed boy? Says that he (she? Disagrees with nearly everything I stand for.". So I'm probably skinny. Maybe gaunt. Short. With some facial hair. Let me help you out, here:. I've got a concealed carry permit.

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Smart Remarks: And the local Democrats had better take it seriously

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Thursday, July 31, 2003. And the local Democrats had better take it seriously. Democrats here in Lancaster County are a fairly ineffectual bunch. It's not just that they are way outnumbered in terms of registration, it's that there often seems to be no real, concerted effort to increase their numbers, no plan. In a growing and increasingly "suburbanized" community, they could make inroads. They don't seem to know how they might do that. Tells a sad tale of attending a Young Democrats meeting. Page, where...

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Under The LobsterScope: February 2005

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Tuesday, February 1, 2005. There but for the grace of Prozac. This has been the kind of day that, some years ago, would have had me curled up in a corner wondering whether life was worth living. As part of Aflac Sales School, we had to go out and visit 15 businesses face to face that we had researched over the weekend with the goal of SCHEDULING AN APPOINTMENT for next week. That's it. We didn't have to sell anything but ourselves. What I learned today was how to handle rejection and keep smiling. I trie...

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Smart Remarks: Uday and Qasay's death may not make a difference

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Friday, August 1, 2003. Uday and Qasay's death may not make a difference. This piece in the New Republic Online. Sign up for the trial online subscription) might give pause to the Paul Wolfowitzes of the world, who have proclaimed that the death of Saddam's two sons shows that there's no future in opposing the American occupiers. In fact, Fattah's piece makes a case that there are more people than ever opposing the American occupiers. Dulaimi and other Iraqi political analysts believe that, because there...

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IS THIS HEAVEN: There Are No Terrorists, Only Bush

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Sunday, July 1, 2007. There Are No Terrorists, Only Bush. The greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own government.". 8212; Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. This planet is deeply troubled, and the main cause of it is our own government.". 8212; Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. This is Iowa, where all the cucumbers are strong, all the tomatoes are good looking, and all the bell peppers, are above average. We're screaming one morning on a changing table. We look up and there it is, all around us.

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IS THIS HEAVEN: "Good Morning Iowa!"

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Friday, July 6, 2007. In the film "Sir, No Sir! There is a brief account of a clandestine anti-war radio station, "Radio First Termer," operated from a brothel in Saigon by Dave Rabbit, an active duty American service member. In my first book, "KGB," one of the characters operates an underground radio station in Sioux City, Iowa. I think part of the allure of writing fiction is that you can make things occur in the world that you want to happen. I don't know why they came over from Prague. She employs he...