Posted by hillbilly on November 29th, 2007 in Media's Political Role, National Security, Politics and Technology
When the 9/11/01 event shook this nation, there was a lot of hindsight indicators that something was going to happen. Hindsight doesn’t really help unless you learn the lesson it gives you and apply it to future threats, and I don’t mean just the Middle East, either.
As a follow up to one of the links [...]
Posted by hillbilly on November 29th, 2007 in Politics General
They can flee Venezuela now but what happens when there’s nowhere else to run?
Posted by hillbilly on November 28th, 2007 in Politics General
Hiding in Plain Sight
Do As I Say But Don’t Question What I Do
Do As I Say But Don’t Meddle In What I Do
A Dumb, Dumber, or Dumbest?
When Overreaction Becomes the Norm
Records versus Campaign Claims
Selling Utopia
Posted by hillbilly on November 27th, 2007 in Politics General
Suzanne Field’s article: Writing off the Wall has me thinking.
“To read, or not to read, that is the question.” This was the question posed by the National Endowment for the Arts for a national study about reading habits. The endowment found such a sharp decline of reading that few Americans could recognize Shakespeare’s antecedent for [...]
Posted by hillbilly on November 18th, 2007 in Politics General
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Posted by hillbilly on November 18th, 2007 in Politics General
First, use some common sense.
This article highlights the stupidity with which we Americans are credited. These people haven’t done anything wrong that hurts the American people. In fact, from the article, it tells of a couple who are valuable assets in their community. Okay, so they got married after they applied for visas. Who cares? Not [...]
Posted by hillbilly on November 14th, 2007 in Bill of Rights/Civil Rights, National Security, Neocommunism, Politics and Technology, Terrorism
Wiretapping probe revived under Mukasey
Folks, I gotta tell you, I’m about sick of the Big Brother silliness. Big Brother has been around a long long time; longer than most of us still alive. The United States first met Big Brother in 1936 when social security was inacted and we were required to file for social [...]