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2009/10/122009/10/12

Journal: The U.S. electoral system is in danger, once again.

Tom-Atlee’s posterous Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge According to several recent articles – “Senate Panel to Examine Sale of Diebold Voting Machine Division” http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/diebold-antitrust-2/ and “Your electronic vote in the 2010 election has just been bought” http://www.truthout.org/092509I – the largest voting machine company in the country, Election Systems and Software (ES&S), has just bought …

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2009/10/122011/10/22

Review: Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect

Erudition Demanding Concentration–Need Lay Chapter or Pamphlet October 12, 2009 Paul A. Rahe This is an extraordinary book offering a very detailed and superbly integrated examination of the consistencies and differences among Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Tocqueville, both to illuminate precisely what was in the Founding Father’s minds when they sought to create a Republic of, …

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2009/10/102009/10/11

Review: The War After Armagedoon

Not Really a Novel, More Like a Wake-Up Call October 10, 2009 Ralph Peters Although I read mostly non-fiction, one of Ralph Peter’s novels (his first in ten years, the last one I really liked was Traitor), is better than reality, for it portrays what we can expect when our delusional political, economic, and military …

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2009/10/092009/10/22

Journal: Nobel Peace Prize Implodes (Update 5)

Original Announcement: Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Nobel Committee said. “The Nobel Committee has in particular looked at Obama’s vision and work toward a world without atomic weapons,” Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the five-member …

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2009/10/082009/10/12

Journal: Pork as Usual, John P. Murtha Oinks On

Washington Post October 8, 2009 Pg. 2 Ex-Staffers Winning Defense Panel Pork, Study Finds By Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post Staff Writer In the coming year’s military spending bill, members of a House panel continue to steer lucrative defense contracts to companies represented by their former staffers, who in turn steer generous campaign donations to …

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2009/10/07

Review: Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era

My Head Hurts–Time for a Black Caucus on Black Power October 7, 2009 Houston A. Baker My head hurts. After enjoying and reviewing Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics yesterday evening, I was not anticipating the firestorm of erudite adjective-laden brow-beating that this author delivers. Minus one star for beating several …

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2009/10/062009/10/07

Review: Waiting for Lightning to Strike–The Fundamentals of Black Politics

Essays, Fundamentals, a Corner Stone October 6, 2009 Kevin Alexander Gray I was truly delighted to have this book arrive today, along with Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era, which I will write up tomorrow morning. Although the essays date back to 1994 this book (and the one …

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