"The United States' cavalier military action thousands of miles from its borders is putting Ukrainians, including ethnic Russians, in harm's way. The US is meddling in an internal Novorossiya matter and an errant bomb or missile could kill innocent civilians. We all saw the humanitarian crisis...
It looks like Putin could very well get what he wants - annexation of eastern Ukraine. Like many things in foreign policy, he can get it simply by having bigger balls than his opponents (the West).
The Russian strategy seems to be to try to provoke Ukraine into a large scale response. The...
I'm all for Illuminati conspiracy theories but the mainstream statist news media is covering it, and mentioning the NSA right in the first few lines:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/18/brazil-jets-idUSL2N0JX17W20131218...
The concern is talk of a government default or selective default. The government shutdown is a hardship for government workers and some businesses, but it is not the major concern.
government shut down =/= default
I think Obama thinks he needs to send a clear message that chemical weapons can "never" be used without severe consequences, as part of his legacy as a Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
But it is my understanding that chemical weapons have previously been used in the Syrian conflict, albeit on a...
Gulf of Tonkin
the Cold War era CIA "Team B"
People have reason to be skeptical. And last I heard the German intelligence agency thought Syrian troops used the chemical weapons without regime permission. Obama has sure made it sound like Assad himself sent the order.
I was reading a NYT article and the comments were eye opening. People calling Kerry a "master statesman" and contending there is no way his comment was really off the cuff, even after a State Department spokesperson described it as such. And NYT "editors" (or interns?) were thumbs upping the...
Here's some quick back of the envelop calculations. Correct me if I do something wrong:
The NFL is a non-profit organization, so I have summed the 2012 net revenues of the NFL teams:
$1.408 billion
http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/201308/only-one-nfl-team-lost-money-2012
Anheuser...
I believe this forum leans libertarian to a degree much greater than does the general American population.
The particular story in question appears to be a sad case of police overreaction. But isolated incidents such as this do not dampen the general trend of increased police presence and...
More tough talking internet vigilantes in this thread. The majority of Americans want a strong police presence in society, surveillance, and tough laws to fight criminals and terrorists.
Face it you libertarian losers, your antiquated ideas of free-dumb are going the way of the dinosaur.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/04/20/gop-lawmakers-switch-bombing-suspect-to-military-custody/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gX36LUJ7Wdy38SU_xNWU-SEAY63g?docId=CNG.fd531a9c61464bbdb1da8a3f76236b36.2c1
There are calls to declare the Bostom bombing suspect an enemy...
The only legitimate sex is penile-vaginal intercourse within the context of marriage, with the express intent of procreation to make the next generation of hardworking Americans.
That time you spend giving/receiving oral is lost productivity.
If you want sexual kicks, just let the...
If you do not support gay marriage, you suffer from mental illness.
If you deny anthropological climate change, you suffer from mental illness.
If you disagree with a progressive income tax, you suffer from mental illness.
If you believe religion should be taught in the classroom, you suffer...
There is the argument that there are detainees who have the potential to commit future crimes, and have made threats to that effect, but there is not enough evidence to convict them for prior crimes. That is the alleged case now in the death of the US ambassador to Libya...
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/201291872137626701.html?utm_content=automate&utm_campaign=Trial6&utm_source=NewSocialFlow&utm_term=plustweets&utm_medium=MasterAccount
Death
His supposed reason for being in Pakistan, if an editorial on Al Jazeera can be believed:
His attempt...
Image gallery of Protests in China:
http://imgur.com/a/Y7oIp
Protests in China:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9546336/China-seized-by-second-day-of-violent-anti-Japan-protests.html
Chinese Americans in Houston...
I honestly believe that the illegal immigration issue in America is the great human tragedy of our time. I also understand that a mass shooting in middle class America generates more page clicks and TV viewership because it is perhaps more shocking, and more Americans can relate to the victims...
One was a traffic accident which is part of a broader political issue. 23 people crowded into a truck is not a normal model of American vehicular conveyance
A cold blooded murder is a law enforcement issue; do we necessarily need new laws in the wake of it?
How dare you question my intentions. I am shocked at the disparity in coverage regarding these two tragic cases. The shootings in Colorado have dominated the headlines and have evoked the expected political opportunism from the usual suspects.
Yet the vehicle accident in Texas also has...
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57477542/at-least-11-killed-in-single-truck-crash-in-texas/
I await Obama's flight to Goliad. I also await Mayor Bloomberg to address this terrible crash on his radio program and the NY Daily News to go a week with it as the front page story.
Should...
Can you guys post about Vietnam or whatever in another thread???
There are new developments in the Chen case, and new indications that he was coerced out of the embassy and into Chinese custody to smooth over the situation for Hillary's arrival in China...
I have decided to re-do my post on a serious note.
Allegedly a Marine general ordered the US Marines to disarm, so as not to make their present Afghan counterparts feel 2nd class. It's a really sad state of affairs that the Afghans cannot apparently be trusted. Is Karzai allowed to get near...
My guidelines for usage of ambiguously intolerant figures of speech have now been replicated by the Asian American Journalists Association:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/asian-american-journalists-association-releases-guidelines-jeremy-lin-155822233.html
[108 characters redacted]
Note: I am not in any way advocating doing this.
How many people in Muslim countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Egypt, Somalia, etc. would riot, wound, and kill each other?
Has a single common person ever before wielded such worldwide influence and power by...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204778604577240773687898142.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Key tidbits:
By "the enemy" do they mean America????
A repeat of the Koran burning by the Florida pastor is occurring - thousands of Afghans protest and dozens of people, including...
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