The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
My good friend Werther had this to say about David Brookes’ op-ed, “The Tenacity Question,” in the 29 October 09 of the New York Times, which argued that the solution to Afghanistan was a simple question of mustering willpower. Sola Fide “The sleep of reason breeds monsters.” Francisco Goya By Werther* ElectricPolitics.com As yet more …
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EVENT REPORT: Cato Institute Book Forum Tuesday, October 13, at 12:00 p.m. in Washington, D.C. Featuring the author, James T. Bennett, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; with comments by Theresa Amato, Author, Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny; and Hans A. von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow, Heritage Foundation, …
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Important Essays, Left Me Blase October 13, 2009 Thomas Pogge and Keith Horton, Editors The three best things I can say about this volume: 1) A heroic work that carefully selected important essays on global ethics from the past 40 years (the book itself, Australian in origin, is published for the first time in 2008). …
With a tip of the hat to John Steiner and Janice Hall, here are some highlights from the recent Clinton Global Initiative that struck us as truly righteous. “I think we can say with some certainty that this mode actually does work,” President Clinton said. “People don’t have to have the same politics, the same …
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A Theological Masterpiece–A Practical Manifesto September 20, 2009 Barbara Marx Hubbard Although the author has written a more recent book, Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence, the later book is focused on helping the individual, while the book being reviewed focuses on the larger matter of social engineering. I was growing up in Asia …
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13 September 2009 1900-1940 National Telephone Conference Call Highlight: Jackie Salit and her organization, which assured the elections of both Mayor Mike Bloomberg in New York City and Barack Obama by the thinnest margin that would not have been achieved without 19 million Independents, is seeking help from the public and all organizations interested in …
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Beyond Six Stars–a Manifesto for Liberty September 5, 2009 John Taylor Gatto This book shocked me, and while I am not easily shocked, in shocking me made me realize how even my own radical outlook (as Howard Zinn notes, a radical is someone who no longer believes government is part of the solution) has come …
