Imperial by Design | The National Interest In 1989, Francis Fukuyama argued in “The End of History?” that Western liberal democracy had won a decisive victory over communism and fascism and should be seen as the “final form of human…
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Time to Stop, Terminate, Refudiate, Reverse, Render Null and Void, and so on, 20 Years of Bi-Partisan Neo-Imperialism
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Howzbout we surge ourselves right on out of that Hellhole?
Richard Haass: Let’s Un-Surge in Afghanistan – WSJ.com To justify adopting a more narrow policy toward Afghanistan this spring, President Obama would need to cite several factors. First, the U.S. inability to eliminate the sanctuaries in Pakistan. Second, successful counterinsurgency…
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China’s Got a Fever and the Only Cure is More Leo Strauss
China’s Strange Interest In Leo Strauss And Other Western Philosophers. | The New Republic Strauss and [Carl] Schmitt are at the center of intellectual debate, but they are being read by everyone, whatever their partisan leanings; as a liberal journalist…
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Notes on the Invention of the World
The plural-realist or perspectivist thought (or anti-thought) can never be understood as generally valid except by reference to a standard that would govern the truth and consistency of all such assertions. This problem has always stood in the way of taking the “post-modernist insight” seriously: If it means what it is meant to mean, then it is at best provisional, and otherwise meaningless.
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No, Sicko was not banned in Cuba
Michael Moore: ¡Viva WikiLeaks! Sicko Was Not Banned in Cuba The date is January 31, 2008. It is just days after ‘Sicko’ has been nominated for an Oscar as Best Documentary. This must have sent someone reeling in Bush’s…
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How Stux’d up are Iran’s nukes? 2 years looks like… at least…
‘Stuxnet virus set back Iran’s nuclear program by 2 years’ The Stuxnet virus, which has attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities and which Israel is suspected of creating, has set back the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program by two years, a top German…
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cool b/w photos
Mindblowing examples of Black and white photography | Pokkisam blog
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Zombie Contentions Year in Review
YouTube – Every Zombie Death in “The Walking Dead”
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Allen West reveals what being a Tea Party hero is all about
Allen West: Government ‘Should Be Censoring The American News Agencies’ That Collaborated With WikiLeaks WEST: There are different means by which you can be attacked. I mean it doesnt have to be a bomb or an airplane flying into a…
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American Paranoid Schizophrenic
Sadly, No! » Pam Geller Laments ‘Second Wave Of The 9/11 Attacks’ The Theft of Ground Zero (link to Atlas Shrugs, article also at American Thinker) The greatest trick the Muslims ever pulled was convincing World Trade Center fetishists that…
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