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A Nation of Sheep Will Beget a Government of Wolves

By TimDanahey on Mon, 09/09/2013 - 4:30pm |

When one discovers a friend has lied or an associate has stolen, a trust has been violated and the pre-existing bond is broken - often irrevocably.

Such is the case with our current government versus U.S. citizens allied with people aroud the world.  Each day, new revelations detail how our government has spied on its own citizens, foreign leaders, and allies.  Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian reporter who covers the Edward Snowden story, is rumored to be preparing a story how the U.S. government assigned the CIA to spy to benefit U.S. multi-national corporations on matters not affecting U.S. security,  In essence, spying for fun and profit.  This was made legal during the Clinton administration but it was never made ethical or honorable - nor was it made widely public.

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Advice for the Enemy

By TimDanahey on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 1:34pm |

It may seem un-American to offer advice to the enemy but, if ever there was a win-win situation, this is it.

If Al Qaeda would like to win, all they have to do is copy our Vietnam experience, declare victory, and go home.  The American people can finish your job.  It will be peaceful, bloodless, and all of our objectives will be fulfilled.

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THE FALL AND RISE OF ANTHONY WEINER

By TimDanahey on Thu, 06/16/2011 - 7:15pm |

I'm tired of the story.  It saddens me that this man e-cheated on his pregnant wife.  It is wrong.  He quit.  It's over.

But it shouldn't be.

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IS THIS SARAH PALIN'S MASTER PLAN?

By TimDanahey on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 10:27pm |

Any Presidential candidate the Republican Party offers in 2012 will be a sacrifice to the Gods of elections.  Someone has to be the standard bearer but the 2012 standard bearer will be going into battle without an army behind him or her.  Repubican leadership is taking more deferments for this unwinnable electoral war.  Obama's Presidency is hitting its stride, the tools of incumbency are available to him, and, quite frankly, Republicans don't offer Americans earning under $1,000,000 a year a logical reason to vote for them.

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The U.S. Should Privatize and Subsidize Torture

By TimDanahey on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 6:02pm |

As the U.S. Congress debates a four-year extension of the Patriot Act and political figures such as Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Peter King (R-NY) clamor to take credit for the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation techniques (torture) in the finding and killing of Osama bin Laden, perhaps this is a good opportunity for the United States to examine its torture options.

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Jobs: The Problem Government Doesn't Want to Solve

By TimDanahey on Fri, 04/01/2011 - 1:39pm |

There isn't a single news story these days that isn't framed around the word "jobs." Political parties make their cases couched in phrases such as "job killing" or "job creation." They tell us unemployment is a persistent problem that will take years to solve. The truth is they don't want to solve unemployment.

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