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Darwin’s Doubt: Review and commentary

“Darwinian theory has so many holes it hardly casts a shadow.”  This is just one of many similar opinions from unimpeachable scientists who have actually read Stephen C. Meyer’s latest blockbuster “Darwin’s Doubt:  The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the … Continue reading

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Nat Hentoff: This is Snowden’s Treason

For some who are handicapped by an inability to fathom obvious logic –or an unwillingness to conduct real scholarship- it is necessary to spell out why some things are as they are.  In columnist Nat Hentoff’s  fifth-column frenzy to rehabilitate … Continue reading

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Snowden’s Useful Idiot – Hentoff

Dostoyevsky’s main character in The Idiot, “Myshkin,” appears so honest and sincere his fellow Russian characters believe him an idiot – and call him so in his presence.  So shall I regarding Nat Hentoff’s disinformation campaign to legitimize Snowden’s betrayal … Continue reading

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Congressman Barber’s Non-Transparency

A recent On Your Mind complaint in the Sierra Vista (AZ) Herald newspaper regarding Congressman Ron Barber’s secret meeting with area Democrats questioned whether being excluded from the public/private meeting was a violation of First Amendment (free speech in particular) … Continue reading

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Unbridled Capitalism

The Pope’s recent speech in which he warned against “unbridled capitalism” caused quite a stir from both ends of a very polarized political spectrum. Any “unbridled” passion or act is bad – at least according to the only known perfect … Continue reading

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Political Purge?….or RIF?

The “sky is falling” reaction by the Right regarding an alleged Obama political purge of some 200 flag-ranked military officers just doesn’t hold water.  This manufactured crisis looks like a shotgunned water bucket.  It may be the first significant, flag-ranked … Continue reading

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A Warning Voice From the Past

Ezra Taft Benson was Secretary of Agriculture under President Eisenhower.  He organized and led the largest humanitarian aid program in America’s –even the world’s – history delivering food, clothing and other necessities for survival to post-World War II Europe.  Secretary … Continue reading

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Veteran Disability Inflation

The politically motivated, veteran disability inflation that began with the invention of Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder by Berkeley, California professors (Stolen Valor by BG Burkett) continues apace with the exponential proclivity for political pandering.  The November 2, 2013 Military Update … Continue reading

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Health Care Fraud

As an immigration inspector at the Douglas, AZ Port of Entry I inspected persons entering the United States for indicators of living illegally in the United States.  One distraught Mexican woman pleaded for a permit to go to Phoenix.  Her … Continue reading

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Mr. Obama, Tear Down this Wall!

With the latest Pew Poll showing 88% of Americans believe the government controls the people versus 8% who feel the people control the government the similarities between Obama’s America and Stalin’s Soviet Union increase weekly.  What the poll doesn’t show … Continue reading

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Obama’s Syria Strategy

Regis Debray, French Socialist and mentor to deceased communist guerrilla Che’ Guevara, was asked about contradictions between Socialist goals and the oppressive results.  Debray replied “We don’t tell the people the truth.  We take dissembling to a fine art.”  When does dissembling … Continue reading

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Snowden in Russia

Russian president Putin allowing Snowden to live in Russia is no surprise.  They are, after all, communists.  In Moscow Diary Velijko Micunovic, the first Hungarian ambassador to the Soviet Union, wrote  “…for the Russians a conciliatory attitude is a sign of weakness” and … Continue reading

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Rubio’s “Latino Spring”

Lost in all of Rubio’s rhetoric is the fact all his assumptions for immigration “reform” are based on false premises.  Immigration law is not “broken” in and of itself.  Immigration law is not “unfair” by “separating families.”  Most of all, … Continue reading

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Tracking the Domestic Enemy

In my opinion, the best web site for tracking the “progressive” Socialists, Leftists and Anarchists who want to destroy the Constitution and the American identity is found under DiscovertheNetworks.org.  If you’re tired of listening to financially opportunistic talking heads who … Continue reading

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CBP Whistleblowers’ Coalition

CBP Officer Julia Davis’ of the San Ysidro Port of Entry tried alerting management to a sudden influx of suspected Saudi terrorists.  Management didn’t want their port’s July 4th bar-b-que in the back office to be interrupted.  Her supervisory chain … Continue reading

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May Day Memories

Ah spring!  As the saying goes: April showers bring May flowers.  It always brings back  fond memories of sitting in a  truck with 150 other Marines holding bayonet-mounted M-14s between our knees outside the D.C. beltway May 1, 1971.  The Nixon administration … Continue reading

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Military’s Holocaust Hypocrisy

As a boy in the ’50s I watched “World At War” narrated by Walter Cronkite.  I was forever marked emotionally seeing the films of the liberated concentration camps.  As a teenaged military history buff I studied that war to understand … Continue reading

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The Great Lincoln – Kerry Debate

In case you missed it there was a debate about America as a symbol to the world between former president of the United States Abraham Lincoln and current Secretary of State John Kerry. Mr. Kerry:  ” I will make my argument … Continue reading

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Fiscal “Cliff” Solutions – Remember the Grace Report? “It’s the Fraud, Waste and Abuse, Stupid!”

If bandwagon broadcasters had focused on the actual cause of our national financial fiasco – Fraud, Waste and Abuse – rather than the beltway spin of a “Fiscal Cliff” sequestration need not have happened.  Even now pundits broach the subject with the timidity of a … Continue reading

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Immigration Reform de Facto 9/11

         We need go no further than 9/11 (2001) to realize that even when 2,074 American citizens are murdered Congress will dissemble and obfuscate but do nothing really effective to solve the illegal alien problem.  My sister in Atlanta recently met a Hispanic man … Continue reading

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