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9/11 Donald Rumsfeld`s Fantasy Testimony

Missing in Action: Honest Testimony on 9/11

(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - Why is 9/11 the cover up that just fails to die? What can never be refuted by anyone? No matter what Glenn Beck, infotainment clown for Israeli owned Fox News does to spin his "tin foil hat" brigade, good old Glenn can't explain away Donald Rumsfeld's bizarre testimony to the 9/11 Commission that takes "conspiracy" into reality.

NORAD told the 9/11 Commission that they received a hijack notification from the FAA for United flight 93 at 9:16 a.m. on 9/11. Here begins years of lies.

The American Anti-Intellectual Part 2

America needs a second War of Independence and a new set of Founding Fathers.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - The observant reader of Part 1 may have been struck by the omission of academics and professors in the class of intellectuals. This was not accidental.

One person who objected to Part 1 was Andrew J. Coulson, Director, Education Policy, of The Cato Institute. He wrote that “Some folks object to intellectuals like Krugman because they often get their facts wrong.”

The American Anti-Intellectual Part 1

America can only be saved by intellectuals as a class.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - In the 2004 election, Republican operative Peggy Noonan, writing in the Wall Street Journal, said “Mr. Bush is the triumph of the seemingly average American man. He’s not an intellectual. Intellectuals start all the trouble in the world.”

Of course, I have been aware of this for many years, after reading Harvard economist and JFK confidant John Kenneth Galbraith who said: "Intellectuals have usually thought themselves disliked because others were jealous of their brains. More often it's because they make trouble."

Eight Years of U.S. War in Afghanistan: The Dollars Add Up (PHOTOS)

With the passage of the FY 2010 Department of Defense budget, total U.S. spending for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will exceed $1 trillion by March of next year.

(NORTHAMPTON, Mass.) - October 7, 2009 marks the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

National Priorities Project (NPP) analysts find that, to date, U.S. military operations in Afghanistan have cost U.S. taxpayers $228 billion, $60.2 billion of which was spent in FY 2009 alone.

Hopeless is a Generous Term for the Situation in Afghanistan

Is Afghanistan the "Real War on Terror" we now claim?

(CINCINNITI, Ohio) - Casualties are mounting in Afghanistan while the situation is rapidly deteriorating from hopeless to a word the English language has yet to create. Everone under heaven has told us that fighting in Afghanistan is insane.

Nothing can be won with terrain beyond our technological grasp, porous borders and a civilian population with hundreds of thousands willing to give their lives to convince us to leave.

Outfoxing the 9/11 Coverup

With the 9/11 Commission rescinding their own report, 9/11 debunking machine is now our "smoking gun".

(CINCINNATTI, Ohio) - When 9/11 Commission Chief Counsel, John Farmer, released his book, The Ground Truth, debunking his own 9/11 commission report and was supported by Chairman Thomas Kean and commission member Senator Bob Kerrey with no dissent, the cover story of 9/11 died.

Years have passed and soon 10,000 Americans will have died. Taking into account the epidemic of veterans suicides, we may have already passed that figure now. The cascade of events, financial collapse, government spying, oil price fixing, massive military corruption and a dozen more issues as serious have been able to move beyond our ability of everyday citizens to influence.

Here We Go Again

Republicans accuse Democrats of exactly that which they themselves are guilty.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - It should be clear by now that Republicans have no intention beyond preventing passage of a Democratic Healthcare Reform Bill regardless of how low they and their follows must stoop to achieve their goal.

Reasonable persons might easily conclude that the “you lie” grito [Spanish for “shout”] of Joe Wilson was less a spontaneous outburst than an intended example to the rank and file of what it can expect in the way of support by the example set in the hallowed chambers of the U. S. Congress.

Are the Current Protests Just Racial Hatred?

Millions of Americans are so devolved that the shame and fear they suffer from having to be led by a person of color is a humiliation they can only respond to with insanity.

(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - How is a minority of extremists with no real cause of any kind getting so much news? Could it be because they are working for the same scamsters that own the news, buy the government and are duped into selling America to the highest bidder?

Is Obama raising taxes? Not hardly. Taxes must be raised so we can start paying our bills. Otherwise, we are a nation of petty crooks borrowing from our children for a free ride today. More lies.

The Politics of Republican Literalism

The Administration of George W. Bush with the prompting of Karl Rove and its evangelical minions robbed ALL Americans of guaranteed rights and protection under the law.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - The immoral and wicked power behind the Republican Party is the cause of conduct by its followers who, believing what they are told, pretend to know what they do not.

Their raucous conduct is to them simply an obscene carnival and should not be taken seriously, for “they know not what they do;” the purpose of the Republican Holy See that encourages them, however, is deadly serious.

Olberman Unloads Over Wrong Way Wilson & the `Flying Monkeys of Right Wing Media`

Getting a perspective on Joe Wilson's "You Lie" moment before the President and Congress.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Writing about Joe Wilson and his ridiculous behavior this week toward the President of the United States, is too broad of an opportunity. Who better to put it into perspective than MSNBC's Keith Olberman; the King of the American media love/hate relationship?

Wilson sank the Republican party farther into the abyss than expected, and he yelled at a President who had just complimented the work of his former opponent for the hotly contested Presidential race, Senator John McCain.