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• Crystal Ball Gazing

  Number of comments: 14
  I could wait for tomorrow to say I-Told-You-So but it's more fun to stick my neck out. Obama will send thirty thousand more in a staggered deployment despite Michael Moores heart-felt pleas: "with just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people...into cynics...you will destroy the" [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:27am EST
  by troutsky

• Moral Imperialism

  Number of comments: 14
  From The United States and Mexico by Howard F Cline:
  
  By early 1914 President Woodrow Wilson had lost his patience with Mexico, and an incident in Tampico on April 9 furnished an excuse to move against Huerta.Strung along the Panuco river were foreign-owned oil installations...chiefly British. From a dock [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:58pm EST
  by troutsky

• Heighten The Contradictions?

  Number of comments: 21
  If no change is possible until crisis forces it, should we encourage crisis? Could we actively work to heighten contradictions beyond even their current insane level? Embrace the Spectacle and campaign for Sarah? This is one line of inquiry I've heard lately, cynically pragmatic in a Maoist sort of way.[...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:24am EST
  by troutsky

• The Communist Hypothesis

  Number of comments: 7
  French President Sarkozy said, soon after his depressing election, that "The spirit of May 68 must be done away with once and for all". It was not just the "spectre" of empirical communism, but the very hypothesis (as Alain Badiou puts it) he wanted buried forever.His "renewal" meant to banish [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:24am EST
  by troutsky

• Nature

  Number of comments: 13
  It is suggested that "pristine" nature or wilderness has curative, restorative powers that can serve to re-connect humans to a deep "rootedness" (possibly ecstatic, feral, harmonious etc..?) The word nature, like environment or place, is contested, controversial and full of multiple meanings, especially when you try to put the word [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:29pm EST
  by troutsky

• How Long ?

  Number of comments: 14
  I just read where the local "progressive" talk radio station folded after one year.They will now do conservative talk radio, but in the spirit of "centrism" is inviting liberals to call in. This is the second one to go down in five years. Good riddance.If I never have to listen [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:20pm EST
  by troutsky

• Territory, Place ,Region

  Number of comments: 8
  I may have already quoted from David Harvey's Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom but it is amazingly relevant to many of the topics I have been posting about lately and the position of my esteemed "commentors". I'm thinking of Kultur's emphasis on the paradigmatic shift from forage to farm' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:29am EST
  by troutsky

• Post Modern Entreprenuers

  Number of comments: 32
  These ads were found scattered throughout the last Harpers and speak to our non-culture:
  
  "Form a real relationship with someone in extreme poverty!"
  
  Purveyor of the Worlds Finest Teas
  
  Seasonal Cookbook by 13 year Ovarian Cancer Survivor
  
  Date Smart / Party Smart! "Join the introduction" [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:50am EST
  by troutsky

• More Trouble

  Number of comments: 7
  I wanted to point out a couple more of what I see as the main themes of these celebrating conservatives. On the macro level they definitely are not interested in joining any New World Order.This includes the United Nations or global currencies or any thing having to do with global [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:14pm EST
  by troutsky

• Trouble in River City

  Number of comments: 5
  As promised, I went to the "Celebrating Conservatism" meeting last night and the best assessment came from my wife who turned to me about a third of the way through and said "We are in deep shit."These people are organized, funded, and well armed. The "master of ceremonies" a tough [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:37am EST
  by troutsky

• More Agit-prop

  Number of comments: 9
  Here is a letter to the editor published last Friday:
  
  It hardly seems that a day goes by that some conservative defender of liberty isn't calling President Barack Obama or his policies "socialist" on the opinion page of this paper. And it is not just the new president which' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:10am EST
  by troutsky