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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Summing Up The Distancing Between The Rich And The Poor

"This [Bush] administration, our Republican-led Congress and the dominant corporate interests in this country want cheap labor. And to achieve that goal they're outsourcing middle-class jobs, importing illegal labor and cutting retirement and health-care benefits." -- Lou Dobbs, "Congress Stiffs... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, June 19, 2006

This Could Be Said Of All Those Responsible For The War In Iraq

"He's in New Hampshire, he's making a political speech. He's sitting in his air-conditioned office on his big fat backside saying, 'Stay the course... I disagree completely with what he's saying. We need to change direction. We can't win a war like this. This guy's sitting back... getting paid by... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, June 17, 2006

Signs That Imperial America Has Reached Zenith

"There are, no doubt, lessons here... The changing character of the native population, brought about through unremarked pressures on porous borders: the creation of an increasingly unwieldy and rigid bureacracy, whose own survival becomes its overriding goal; the despising of the military and the... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

On The Rise And Fall Of America, The Latest Great Empire

"Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones." -- The Age Of Bronze, Lord Byron Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Guantanamo, "Renditioning", Illegal Wiretaps, And More To Come

"Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments." -- French National Assembly, 1789, Declaration Of The Rights Of Man Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

Writing -- A Pleasure And A Pain

"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork." -- Peter de Vries Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 4, 2006

Why Bush And The GOP Are Beset With Scandal After Scandal

"Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever." -- Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort, French writer Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, June 1, 2006

On Atrocities And Administrative Cover-Ups

"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail." -- Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and poet Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Bush's Illegal Wiretapping, The Patriot Act, And War On The Constitution II

"In war countries act out of self-interest." -- Hermann Goering Inter arma silent leges (In time of war the laws are silent). -- Latin maxim Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Bush's Illegal Wiretapping, The Patriot Act, And War On The Constitution

"Experience should tell us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal,... Sign in to see full entry.

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