The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

The story from the BBC, among other places. Just another sign that we’re turning into an isolationist culture in many ways; scared of outside cultural influence and motives. Pat Buchanan was on NPR a week or two ago and posited that the Mexicans are coming in such numbers that they will not be [...]

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An article in the International Herald Tribune. An exerpt:
KINTBURY, England In the autumn of 68 B.C. the world’s only military superpower was dealt a profound psychological blow by a daring terrorist attack on its very heart. Rome’s port at Ostia was set on fire, the consular war fleet destroyed, and two prominent senators, together [...]

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I have written several times that it is more important for our country to stick to our ideals in our fight against hatred and terrorism, that the ends do no justify all means. An open letter was written and signed by several CIA and US Department of Defense officials asking the US Senate to [...]

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This frightening article is an absolute must-read for any American.
Thus far only a fraction of Ohio’s 88 counties have received even passing scrutiny. But the early indicators are that Ohio 2004, which decided the presidency, may ultimately prove out to have been the dirtiest and most obviously stolen election in all U.S. [...]

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A valid opinion about a very disturbing trend in the US legal system. Didn’t we learn anything from our whole Japanese American Internment camp experience? It is extremely important that we stick to our moral high ground, regardless of whatever perceived threat there may be to the citizens of this country–which is probably [...]

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The city of Reykjavik, Iceland will be turning off all their lights for thirty whole minutes.
Lights off - Stars on is a grand scale happening that marks the opening of the Reykjavik International Film Festival. The City Council of Reykjavik and its neighboring municipalities have agreed to turn off all the city lights in the [...]

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On Point had a special a couple days ago on deep drilling, peak oil, and the future of our energy consumption. Evidently the latest oil find by Chevron is more than be 5 miles beneath the ocean’s surface, far deeper than anything that’s been drilled before, right above the earth’s magma, and the [...]

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President Bill Clinton was interviewed on Fox News about his terrorism record, which he sets straight. Having read Richard Clarke’s Against All Enemies, I think it’s awesome that Clinton himself got a chance on America’s most conservative popular news network to debunk the things that the conservative spinsters have been saying about his administration [...]

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From the first post in Michelle’s shiny new blog.

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The BBC has the story. As the Antarctic ice core drilling and examination has continued over the last few years, they have looked increasingly far back into history to get measured samples. With data like this, I really can’t understand how guys like John Christy can continue, adamantly, to attribute the recent measured rise in [...]

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