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Longtime readers of this blog know without me having to remind anyone: party allegiance doesn’t exist in this dojo. Personally I’d rather see a country full of citizens who are beholden to no political parties at all. And I like to think that one of the end characteristics of that drastic un-affiliation is that this blog and its peculiar proprietor are equally hard on both Democrats and Republicans.

But I also believe absolutely in the right to expression, whether in speech or belonging to the party of one’s choice, if one chooses to belong to one at all. I just try to do my best to encourage people to think about it before they commit to something, but that’s beside the point of this post…

WorldNetDaily was the first to report that there is apparently a disturbing pattern among the Chrysler dealerships that have been targeted for closure as part ...

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I said Friday afternoon that I was leaving the blog until Monday. Anytime I take a respite, I’m serious about it. And it’s gonna take something really damned bad to drag me back here.

If this ain’t bad enough, then I sure as hell don’t know what is…

President Barack Obama has effectively FIRED Rick Wagoner, the CEO of General Motors.

What this means is that the United States federal government has pretty much nationalized and taken over a private company. It’s likely not going to be called that officially, but the policy is still the same.

Has a President of the United States ever done anything like this, in the history of this country? Certainly not in recent memory. The closest I can think of is what happened between Ronald Reagan and the air traffic controllers’ union… but not Reagan or any other President in living recollection ...

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Y’know, it’s funny: I remember when Bill Clinton was President, and access to him and his staff was being “sold” in exchange for donations. It was some of the worst corruption of the highest office in the land, and a lot of us were right to have been angered by it.

So then here comes George W. Bush, and we were told that he would “clean house” and that this sort of thing would never happen in his “ethical” administration…

…only to find out that the Bush Administration is involved with the same thing. Long story short: if you donate enough to the George W. Bush Presidential Library, you get access to Dick Cheney and other Bush officials, and possibly even Bush himself.

This is the kind of thing that makes me believe that the only thing that makes the current White House administration more upstanding than the ...

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Anyone left who still believes that we have to “work within the system” to effect change in this country had better read this and think real hard about what they’re advocating.

Because the undeniable truth is: the system no longer works. The system has not worked in a long time. The system is hopelessly broken. We’re just now becoming able to see how bad the damage is.

And anyone who still believes we must abide by the status quo and stay within the confines of the system is… well, an idiot.

The status of the Republican Party of the United States isn’t much different from that of the Communist Party of China, when you think about it. Both are controlled by hardliner old guards who won’t bend and will crush like a bug any new blood that tries to bring fresh ideas to the scene. I’m not talking about Republicans ...

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Fred Reed – master of the blunt truth and art of curmudgeonry – is spot-on as usual with his latest analysis of what is amiss in this country…

Something is wrong with the United States. I think most of us have noticed it. There is a mortal rot in the country, made manifest by many little rots that are hard to integrate mentally yet are, I think, somehow related. The change is grave, accelerating, probably irreversible, and fascinating. Things are not as they were…

…The Constitution really is going away, or has gone. It never did work as well as it should have, but few things human ever do. Habeas corpus is dead, right to an attorney, congressional right to declare war—it’s not even worth listing the list. Joe iPod in the burbs doesn’t care because it doesn’t affect him, yet. Git them Hay-rabs, ain’t no draft, plenty sushi. Urg.

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My good friend Marc alerted me to this. Pay real close attention, boyz and goylz…

Soon you will need approval from the Department of Homeland Security in order to hold a job.

Do you understand what that means?

First of all, these are the people who maintain – and constantly bungle – the “No Fly List”. Now they are going to do the same thing with your work eligibility.

But worse than that: this is something straight out of the Soviet Union. Hell, let’s call a spade a spade and say that this is something out of Nazi Germany. Sure was hard to find work there unless you proved that you weren’t Jewish, wasn’t it? Lord only knows what our government will come up with that would disqualify someone from employment.

And what’s to keep “them” from stopping there? If we can have No Fly Lists and No ...

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George W. Bush is the worst President in American history. As I’ve said many times before: it will be decades before we have completely cleaned up the mess that this evil man and his cronies have done to this country.

Some will claim that for me to say that is not becoming a true Christian. If only Germany had been inundated with such insincere Christians in the years leading up to 1938.

The fact that I am probably in a government database somewhere as a “dissident” and a “troublemaker” for what I’ve posted here should be enough to make anyone pause.

Here’s the story from Jerome Corsi at WorldNetDaily. This is certainly the first I’m hearing about this…

Bush makes power grab

Posted: May 23, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial

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You’ve probably heard already about former U.S. President Jimmy Carter calling George W. Bush “the worst in history”.

Y’know, Carter really was the most inept and ineffective president America has had in the past 50 years. His entire presidency could well be summed-up by the word “malaise”.

But even more than Carter, the worst was easily Lyndon B. Johnson: a man who’s damage to this country has still yet to be fully calculated. Where Johnson trumped Carter was having the most corrupt presidency up ’til his time. Say what you will of Carter: I’ve never thought that he did have anything but the best of intentions at heart, however much he bungled those intentions. Barry Goldwater was right: Carter should have kept his head down once he was out of office, and he would have gone down in the history books as one of the better ones. Too bad ...

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