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POPSWhatever happened to family values? How is this not all hypocritical of the Republicans. I don't get how now it is ok to be teen & pregnant and what about the more pressing issues our country is going through - economy, dependence on foreign oil, global-warming, health care?
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POPSRudy the "moderate" In rebuttal: Glenn Greenwood "Salon" 11/15/07 See also: "Romney and Rudy on detaining Americans" ". . . the term "moderate" would be the least accurate term for Giuliani. He has one of the most extremist and war-loving foreign policy teams ever assembled for a major candidate. He has advocated or expressed openness to such radical policies as imprisoning American citizens with no trials, having Israel join NATO, and launching a first-strike tactical nuclear attack on Iran. And he speaks more glibly than virtually any individual in the country about torture."
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POPSSecond Coup in Pakistan; But He's the U.S.'s SOB U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt reportedly once said "He may be an SOB, but he's our SOB." Remember, though, that Saddam, Osama, Mobutu, Savimbi and many others were U.S. SOBs as well. Play with fire; get burnt.
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POPSThe Age for Rootless Wandering David Brooks' saving grace is that despite his myopic politics, occasionally he thinks up something very interesting. I saw this happen to my Graduating class. They were spread all over the world. We are a new Lost Generation, disinherited by the absolutism that secured our forefathers in their insulated identities and simplified social contexts. Deconstruction, and post-modernism, now seems to me a natural process far more than a philosophy.
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POPSStanding Up to Conservative Bullying
Here's a bit more to explain the brinkmanship and absolutism: "Brinkmanship is being used to force the federal government to write a blank cheque for the pipeline, and indemnify Exxon against ecological disasters and further cost increases..." "Absolutism (Bush-style "you're either with us or you're with the terrorists" framing) is being used to bully Canada into committing to keep our troops in the midst of the anarchy and civil war in Afghanistan. The PR from the military is increasingly using the term 'enemy' to describe anyone in Afghanistan who opposes the continued presence of foreign troops in their country. The ideologically rabid Harper Conservative minority government routinely uses the "if you don't support our war, you don't support our troops" line to disparage anti-war groups. And today a military spokesman lambasted the Canadian media for daring to publicize opinion polls showing Canadians' strong opposition to the war, saying it was "demoralizing our troops".
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POPSAtheism: the Real Force Behind Mass Murders I don't believe this... This article was made to repudiate Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and other "secular fanatics." Also on the page: Atheist hubris The crimes of atheism have generally been perpetrated through a hubristic ideology that sees man, not God, as the creator of values. Using the latest techniques of science and technology, man seeks to displace God and create a secular utopia here on earth. Of course if some people - the Jews, the landowners, the unfit, or the handicapped - have to be eliminated in order to achieve this utopia, this is a price the atheist tyrants and their apologists have shown themselves quite willing to pay. Thus they confirm the truth of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's dictum, "If God is not, everything is permitted."
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