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the erosion of American Civil Liberties
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| To all of americans! |
[Dec. 25th, 2011|11:10 pm] |
Hello! My name is Klim! Im russian. I made a video for USA living people. Its important for me. Please watch it - it will take less than a minute! Thanx!
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| Tonight the Republican candidates finally debate FOREIGN POLICY |
[Nov. 12th, 2011|03:53 pm] |
Should be fun for drinking games. I note that unlike earlier debates, this one is slotted for only one hour. Seems appropriate, with this crowd.
The question I want to see posed to each and every one of them is:
Sooner or later, the United States will get into a war with another country, and it will be different from the 'asymmetric' ones we've been in lately. One feature of such wars is that our soldiers sometimes get taken prisoner.
With that in mind, what standard of conduct would you insist our enemies use when dealing with our troops when held as prisoners of war? |
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| Freedom in the United States |
[Jun. 14th, 2011|03:57 pm] |
Freedom in the United States | Bayou Renaissance Man (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif?v=92.1) bayourenman) -- [That's the title of an updated report from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. It follows their first report on the subject in 2009. I highly recommend the report for all those to whom personal freedom and individual rights are cornerstones of their philosophy of life.]
[xposted to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.1) armedcitizen] |
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| Our New National Anthem |
[Mar. 11th, 2011|05:38 pm] |
A bit of positivity for a change--I thought this group would appreciate this bit of creativity. :D
Yours for a song: Gene Weingarten rewrites the national anthem | The Washington Post -- [Last week, I promised you a new national anthem. The first challenge in writing one was to find a tune more appropriate than ours, which was, after all, an old barroom song written by a Brit around the time King George III was impolitely taxing our tea. Plus, the music is so stupidly difficult to sing that getting it right was viewed as a sobriety test, warranting another round of drinks.
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I started to write the lyrics, jotting down the best things about America. That's when I realized that they're already compiled in one place. We already have a better national anthem; it's just never been recognized as such. It was a masterpiece written in 1789 by a short man with long hair and black tights. His name was James Madison. I'm talking about the Bill of Rights, those 10 simple guarantees of individual liberty that - unlike any chauvinistic, militaristic, jingoistic, overwrought, self-celebratory song - are truly great.
Cramming the entire Bill of Rights into a containable whole demanded that it be sung in a gallop, and so "Clementine" lost out to Rossini's "William Tell Overture."] |
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| Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans |
[Jan. 8th, 2011|06:53 pm] |
Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans
STANFORD, Calif. - President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.
It's "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20027837-501465.html |
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| Worth reading |
[Dec. 9th, 2010|11:54 am] |
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) debgeisler writes a piece that you should really take the time to read. It's on her LJ.
I especially like this bit: "How utterly repulsive you are, Joe Lieberman. You claim to uphold the Constitution of the United States, but you only want to keep track of the bits you like." |
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