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Aug 3, 2010, 4:49 pm
Dove World Outreach (Bargain) Center
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. –C.S. Lewis
Without any other background or clues, how does the phrase “Dove World Outreach” hit you? A small percentage of you might guess that those words describe an aggressive marketing campaign for a ... Comment - Like
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Jul 27, 2010, 12:53 pm
Yesterday the world changed and a new epoch was ushered in with Wikileak’s release of the Afghan War Diary, 2004 – 2010. In case you’ve been vacationing off-planet, Afghan War Diary is a compilation of “raw data” derived from 90,000 leaked ground reports from the war in Afghanistan (appr... Comment - Like
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Jul 23, 2010, 10:59 am
Hey there, frumps. It’s been a while since Health Care Reform has been mentioned here on the Frump Gazette meanwhile those on both sides of the previous debate wait to see whether the Health Care Reforms enacted will have a net positive or negative effect on American healthcare delivery in year... Comment - Like
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Jul 21, 2010, 3:24 pm
If you don’t quite recognize the smug little pug in the photo here, don’t feel bad – he’s nobody important and I promise you can go right back to ignoring him as soon as you’re finished reading this post. He’s Dan Gainor, a staffer at the Media Research Center (MRC), and just another mem... Comment - Like
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Jul 19, 2010, 3:00 pm
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself,
And falls on th’other. . . .
Macbeth Act 1, scene 7. 25–28
Hail to the Chief
If Sarah Palin and her “political machine” ever hope to see the business end of a run for POTUS, they’... Comment - Like
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Jul 15, 2010, 2:48 pm
Imagine this: you’re a fifty-something four-star general in the US Army; you have achieved that lofty summit largely by laboring in the relatively peaceful halls of military academe. You spend 1970 – 1974 learning to be an officer and a gentleman at West Point during the death throes of what t... Comment - Like
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Jun 21, 2010, 4:12 pm
"Vietghanistan" from Michael Moore's website
Quite a lot of print and airtime have been expended recently on “managing expectations” regarding our excellent adventure in Afghanistan. If any of you have experienced qualms about any item, or combination of items, on the following list, I’m fa... Comment - Like
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Jun 17, 2010, 2:45 pm
“Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.” ~Shoseki
If you are among the vast majority of Homo sapiens who ascribe to Darwin’s theory of evolution, and therefore believe that you are the unique result of millions of years of genetic mutation, adaptation and natura... Comment - Like
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Jun 14, 2010, 2:32 pm
There is nothing in the political world quite as melodramatically theatrical as “America at War;” and since America has been “at war” for most of my long life, I’ve had quite a gutful of it. I understand that war news, by its very nature tends toward the melodramatic, especially the bi... Comment - Like
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Jun 8, 2010, 2:59 pm
Who could have guessed, only a short year ago, that mid-term elections would be so darn much fun? Yet here we are, five months away from elections that are usually a major snooze, enjoying all the political melodrama of a high school election for Prom King and Queen – and we’re only at the Pri... Comment - Like
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Jun 2, 2010, 1:46 pm
Day One
When I was growing up, my grandmother would put an end to certain situations by accusing us grandchildren of “wanting to have our cake, and eat it too.” That was her way of saying “you’re being greedy, hypocritical and immature, so cut it out!” Usually, we did cut it out, beca... Comment - Like
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May 29, 2010, 1:51 pm
There’s nothing like breaking news on Gay Rights to persuade the Right to shelve all other serious business and howl at the moon. This past week’s somewhat unexpected movement on the military “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” rule is certainly no exception, since it carries the extra added attra... Comment - Like
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May 24, 2010, 1:37 pm
The Rand & Rachel Show
No matter what your politics, I think it’s safe to say that there is bipartisan agreement that Rand Paul just had possibly the worst post-election week in US political history – after winning the Republican primary for Kentucky’s US Senate seat by a “Randslide,” as ... Comment - Like
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May 21, 2010, 12:52 pm
Here’s a fun little mental exercise in National Identity that you might want to try the next time that you find yourself in a group of – oh, say—over a hundred people in America. The occasion isn’t important – wedding reception, graduation, bris, retirement party, Office Christmas Party,... Comment - Like
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May 18, 2010, 3:44 pm
In the grand scheme of things, the United States, as a superpower, can be seen as the virtual “teen-ager” among the world’s older league of powerful nations. And, in that role, we do not disappoint, dealing with global diplomats and heads-of-state with much the same brash and bumptious behav... Comment - Like
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May 14, 2010, 2:31 pm
Kirsty Wigglesworth / Associated Press
Two weeks into the aftermath of the latest breach of Homeland Security, I think I’m beginning to notice an unsettling pattern in our national response to such events. Paradoxically, that response spells good news for terrorists and, unfortunately bad news ... Comment - Like
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May 12, 2010, 2:33 pm
I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood in a small “steel town” in what is now referred to dismissively as the “Rust Belt.” We were a motley crew of immigrant mutts and Post-War DPs (Displaced Persons), as we called them, to draw a line between “established” second generation imm... Comment - Like
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May 10, 2010, 4:52 pm
I can remember, vividly, the first time that I learned of the curious psychological concept of “emotional contagion.” It was, for me, an “Aha Moment” that put the incomprehensible 1960’s and ‘70s, with which I was (not entirely successfully) trying to cope, into slightly better focus. ... Comment - Like
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May 7, 2010, 12:05 pm
Who's Your Daddy?
In a world that has elevated hypocrisy to an art-form, an unprepossessing, virtual unknown emerged this week as the solid frontrunner for the 2010 Superheroes of Hypocrisy Title. By day, George Rekers is a 61-year-old father of three; a Baptist minister; co-founder, with Jam... Comment - Like
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May 5, 2010, 1:46 pm
Nothing exposes the vacuity and hypocrisy of Republican politicians like a fresh terrorist arrest. The apprehension of The Times Square bomber, one Faisal Shahzad, a newly naturalized US citizen born in Pakistan, has inspired the Right to dust off their melodramatic (and inaccurate) views on how t... Comment - Like
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May 3, 2010, 1:58 pm
Just when you begin to think that, with a bit of political soul-searching and a committed re-dedication to our foundational principles, it might yet be possible to get this American “ship of state” back on course after the “perfect storm” of the last decade – something like Arizona happens... Comment - Like
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Apr 29, 2010, 2:37 pm
President Obama’s official timeline for surging our military presence in Afghanistan still has fourteen months to run; in that timeframe, there is (in some quarters) an expectation that the US and NATO will manage to quell increasing insurgent attacks, convince Afghan government officials that cor... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2010, 2:30 pm
In the wake of the 2007 scandal regarding deplorable conditions at the supposedly renowned Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Army promised to do better by its veterans and established a program they call Warrior Transition Units (WTU). On paper, WTUs were meant to provide a therapeutic, support... Comment - Like
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Apr 23, 2010, 1:03 pm
The city of Kandahar, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan is shaping up to be a “do or die” mission to prove, or disprove, history’s lessons about waging war in Afghanistan. If you’re a person inclined to bet on the outcome of World Affairs, odds of Coalition Forces pulling off anything even ... Comment - Like
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Apr 21, 2010, 12:08 pm
“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.” Montaigne
I remember a day when the “Silly Season” in America was a brief period of a few months, roughly congruent with Congress’ summer recess. It earned its name due to the fact that newspapers, starved for newswort... Comment - Like
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Apr 17, 2010, 1:22 pm
The past week must have been an extra busy one for the military brains entrusted with imposing Democracy and a greater appreciation for Western values on the population of Afghanistan. Granted, the path to Empire never runs smooth but, lately, American Counterinsurgency seems to be suffering from ... Comment - Like
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Apr 14, 2010, 12:34 pm
Urban Combat Simulator
I’ve taken some time to think about recent news coming out of the Middle East and have come to the inescapable conclusion that US Foreign Policy and the US military adventures that enforce it are a train wreck of epic proportions. Furthermore, it’s become nearly impossi... Comment - Like
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Apr 7, 2010, 1:09 pm
Here’s a little quiz (below) for the “armchair generals” among us who may have become a tad disillusioned by the way that our US military appears to be conducting itself over this first decade of The Long War. Here we go, but before you get started here’s a tip: Because this is war... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2010, 10:54 am
Here in the Northeastern United States Spring has arrived, bringing with it the primal derangements and high spirits historically associated with the season – unmufflered motorcycles, chest-beating, spontaneous Tarzan cries and stuff like that there. Evidently, roughly the same phenom is occurri... Comment - Like
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Mar 31, 2010, 12:26 pm
Pardon my cynicism, but does anyone else find President Obama’s weekend pep rally in Afghanistan a bit show-boat-y? Especially, coming as it did on the heels of a weeklong spree of Presidential power-lifting? – health care reform, student loan help, underwater mortgage help and recess appo... Comment - Like
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Mar 29, 2010, 2:40 pm
When I took my brief leave, a little over a week ago, there were some good (in my opinion) things happening on the domestic political front. Health Care Reform had just passed without automatically triggering Armegeddon, Apocopalypse, Waterloo or any of the other colorful but untoward side effects... Comment - Like
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Mar 19, 2010, 12:45 pm
“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” Benjamin Franklin
Well, frumps, I’ve been at this for a year now, and I must admit that writing the Frump Gazette has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my long and ... Comment - Like
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Mar 17, 2010, 2:06 pm
Photo Credit: Twitter user @sarahannwalker
Well, Washington, DC hosted “Armey’s Last Stand” yesterday. About two weeks ago Health Care Reform was officially designated a Tea Party “Code Red situation” calling for urgent mobilization; forthwith a couple hundred TPers dutifully shaped up ... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2010, 1:23 pm
Flag-Raising in Marjah
By now, just about anyone who is tuned into current events in Afghanistan has been thoroughly disabused of the notion that the well-publicized campaign to wrest the “city” of Marjah from the clutches of the Taliban was anything more than a military PR stunt – and a no... Comment - Like
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