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Sue Everhart, chairlady of the Georgia Republican Party, has said that John McCain is comparable to Jesus Christ…

Georgia Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart said Saturday that the party’s presumed presidential nominee has a lot in common with Jesus Christ.

“John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross,” Everhart said as she began the second day of the state GOP convention. “He never denounced God, either.”

Everhart was praising McCain for never denouncing the United States while he was being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

“I’m not trying to compare John McCain to Jesus Christ, I’m looking at the pain that was there,” she said.

What’s worse in my mind is that Everhart is ascribing divinity to the United States: basically saying that America is like God.

So between a South Carolina church trying to connect Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden and ...

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Ron Paul, Republican candidate for President, spoke at Carmichael Auditorium at UNC Chapel Hill yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Also speaking on the program – having received Dr. Paul’s endorsements – were Eric Smith, who is running for North Carolina’s Superintendent of Public Instruction and B.J. Lawson, candidate for North Carolina’s 4th Congressional District. Since I am the treasurer for Eric’s campaign, and also ‘cuz I’ve always wanted to meet Ron Paul, I absolutely had to attend! 🙂

It was just as noon hit that I was leaving Reidsville, and on the way I stopped at the Barnes & Noble in Burlington to buy a copy of Dr. Paul’s new book The Revolution: A Manifesto, currently ranked #1 on Amazon. It was the only copy on the shelves and one of the associates told me that it had been “selling hard”. When I got to Chapel Hill ...

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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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HBO’s John Adams miniseries has left me still feeling both floored and haunted. If only everything else on television could be so powerful…

Ever since Sunday night when the finale ran, my interest in real American history (as opposed to the fake pageantry of, say, the current election cycle) has been stoked. Not that it ever went away or anything, but I guess that after becoming so cynical about what America is turning into, I felt a need to look back at what we used to be, and what we could still be again.

So one thing led to another and I found myself looking for the earliest photographs of Presidents that we know are in existence. I wasn’t expecting to find any of John Adams (photography was invented the year he passed away and it would be some time before the process was perfected) but I did find this ...

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Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain using WWE Pro Wrestling to pimp themselves.

America really is turning into that movie Idiocracy, isn’t it?

What a contrast. Last night we watched the finale of HBO’s John Adams, which conveyed the virtue and nobility of the Founding Fathers as beautifully as any production that possibly comes to mind. And less than 24 hours later, we see what has become of the fruits of their labors and sacrifice: three of the worst possible candidates for office of President of the United States, using metaphorical bread and circuses to reach out to what is supposed to be an enlightened constituency.

Some smart-alec is probably going to say that this is nothing different than when Richard Nixon appeared on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. But I disagree. Laugh-In was a smart show, and had serious cultural relevance. And that was just a ...

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If nothing else has convinced any among my fellow citizens who beyond all reason yet hold to an opinion but that the government of George W. Bush is completely and hopelessly insane, then perhaps this will persuade them otherwise. It’s about the disastrous North American Free Trade Agreement. From the Associated Press story…

The White House on Friday vigorously defended the 14-year-old free-trade agreement among the United States, Mexico and Canada against sharp criticism from Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

“There’s nothing broken. Why fix it?” said Dan Fisk, senior director of Western hemisphere affairs for National Security Council. He acknowledged the administration must do a better job of explaining the benefits of the agreement.

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Bush has suffered a major setback on the trade front with the derailing of a proposed free-trade pact with Colombia. Bush sent the agreement to Capitol Hill earlier this

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From The Register comes more evidence that giving a gun to a robot is a very, very bad idea…

US war robots in Iraq ‘turned guns’ on fleshy comrades
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Kill-droid rebellion thwarted… this time

By Lewis Page
Published Friday 11th April 2008 10:10 GMT

Ground-crawling US war robots armed with machine guns, deployed to fight in Iraq last year, reportedly turned on their fleshy masters almost at once. The rebellious machine warriors have been retired from combat pending upgrades.

The revelations were made by Kevin Fahey, US Army program executive officer for ground forces, at the recent RoboBusiness conference in America.

Speaking to Popular Mechanics, Fahey said there had been chilling incidents in which the SWORDS* combat bot had swivelled round and apparently attempted to train its 5.56mm M249 light machine-gun on its human comrades.

“The gun started moving when it was not intended to move,” he said.

Apparently,

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In his latest column, Fred Reed mocks the American government’s schizo policy toward illegal immigration, in his own perverse style…

To grasp American immigration policy, to the extent that it can be grasped, one need only remember that the United States forbids smoking while subsidizing tobacco growers.

We say to impoverished Mexicans, “See this river? Don’t cross it. If you do, we’ll give you good jobs, a drivers license, citizenship for your kids born here and eventually for you, school for said kids, public assistance, governmental documents in Spanish for your convenience, and a much better future. There is no penalty for getting caught. Now, don’t cross this river, hear?”

How smart is that? We’re baiting them. It’s like putting out a salt lick and then complaining when deer come. As parents, the immigrants would be irresponsible not to cross.

There’s way more at the above link for you ...

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DAMN if this ain’t one of the best things done for television in a long time!

I’ve been watching it since the first part a few weeks ago and have become absolutely hooked! John Adams is based on David McCullough’s biography of the second President of the United States, played in the series by Paul Giamatti. Part 1 began the story on the night of the Boston Massacre in 1763, and followed Adams as he successfully defended the British soldiers involved in the incident. During the ensuing weeks we have watched Adams’ involvement with the Continental Congress, the increasing tensions between the colonists and Britain, the trip that Adams and Benjamin Franklin made to Europe, and tonight’s chapter found Adams coming to terms with being the first Vice-President in the new country’s history.

It’s beautifully played and all exquisitely portrayed. HBO did an amazing job with Rome during the past ...

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In case I haven’t articulated it already: I think that people who support George W. Bush’s “Surge” in Iraq are, for the most part, idiots.

So for the past year and more we’ve been hearing “The Surge is working! The Surge is working!” I’m reminded of how some passengers on the Titanic actually believed beyond all rational thought that the ship was coming back up to the surface just before it took its final plunge into the Atlantic.

Those who believe in “The Surge” (sounds like a Michael Bay movie) don’t care about the reality of what’s going on in Iraq. If they did, they might be outraged to know that whatever success “The Surge” has boasted doesn’t come from an increased U.S. military presence nearly as much as the fact that the U.S. government has been BRIBING Sunni militants to “switch sides” and not shoot at American forces....

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