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POPSNovember Surprises In a desperate bid to close the gap, Christopher Hitchens says the McCain camp—whoops, unnamed sources!—are leaking some of their most lurid smears yet. MORE DETAILS AT SOURCE
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POPSMcCain voters: Don't Read - about intelligent political debate Reagan health programme would have appalled most Americans , had he explained it as carefully as Carter had done, but he had found a formula for avoiding tough political issues and making his opponents look like wonks. It wasn't always like this. The founding fathers of the republic - Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and others - were among the greatest thinkers of their age. They felt no need to make a secret of it. How did the project they launched degenerate into George W Bush and Sarah Palin? ... Guardian
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POPSHistory: Aaron Burr v. Thomas Jefferson An endorsement of a great leader over a man surrounded by corruption, in 1800 Alexander Hamilton endorsed Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr. Yesterday Colin Powell went the opposite direction and endorsed socialism and corruption over leadership and greatness. Colin Powell is no Alexander Hamilton
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POPSNew BBC Series on America The first episode of The American Future: A History will be broadcast on Friday 10 October on BBC Two at 9pm BST. There are three further episodes on subsequent Fridays, at the same time, covering war, faith, and immigration. Video at source. Series will perhaps we available at BBC site.
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POPSThe Demise of Meritocracy & The Push to Mediocrity "In America these days, we award everyone for merit, from the brilliant to the mediocre. Just as in Little League, everyone gets a trophy. It's the ultimate in populist democratization. Which is why McCain insists, despite all empirical evidence to the contrary, that Sarah Palin 'knows more about energy than probably anybody in the United States of America.' "
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POPSHating Keith Olbermann A blogger, um, expresses his dislike for Mr. Olbermann. Clipmarks is so left-wing it makes Kos look like Alexander Hamilton. This should be fun.
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POPSListening To The Enemy Privacy concerns are not trivial. The Constitution protects against "unreasonable" searches. But even with law enforcement, where the main function is ex post prosecution, there are numerous exceptions to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement. Yet Congress insists still on micromanaging the president — and he, by failing to assert his authority early on, is now reduced to bargaining with Congress over minutia that will soon be as obsolete and dangerous as the underlying act is today. John Locke, put it well when he observed that the foreign affairs power "is much less capable to be directed by antecedent, standing, positive Laws, than the Executive." The Federalist's authors, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, all agreed. The remedy for executive incompetence or recklessness in foreign affairs is political — not legislative, much less legal. Congress, to say nothing of the courts, can no more manage such affairs than it can the economy.
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POPSUniqlo's Take on Designer Capsules For the last two years, Uniqlo has featured several designer capsule collections each spring. The difference between the Japanese retailer's looks and that of H&M or Target? The brand focuses on high-brow, indie designers instead of well-known names (H&M) or lesser-known names that lack indie cred (Target).
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POPSThis may be.... ...the most important article you will ever read. My hope is that whoever becomes our new president uses this very act to grab Bush and ALL his Neo Con criminal cohorts and give them a taste of their own medicine. The world wiil be better off with them "disappeared" forever.
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POPSThe Founding Fathers view on America and God Patrick Henry - “It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” “ Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” Source: October 12, 1816. The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay Thomas Jefferson - "I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus." “God who gave us life gave us liberty." - Thomas Jefferson “ It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.” - George Washington "Christianity is part of the common law" - James Wilson
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POPSQuotes of the Founding Fathers "Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as are life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolable. On the contrary, no human legislation has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture." - William Blackstone" The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legislative authority." - Alexander Hamilton "The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent . - Thomas Jefferson
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POPSA real gender bender... How did this not come out sooner? I was under the impression that most US jails and prisons at the very least stripped the prisoners before admittance. Canadian jails do - even our county jails...Certainly most jails do a simple physical check-up before they lock away the prisoners? If not - after this - they should.
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