William Buckley Vs Gore Vidal
Buckley was good on some questions but horrific on foreign policy.
Buckley was good on some questions but horrific on foreign policy.
By Keith Preston
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Gore Vidal’s classic 1986 essay from The Nation On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. The empire was seventy-one years old and had been in ill health since 1968. Like most modern empires, ours […]
Netanyahu: Another guy who just needs to go fuck himself. By John Glaser Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said US threats of military options against Iran are not enough, suggesting the Obama administration ought to prepare for war against Iran’s imaginary nuclear weapons program. “Right now the […]
From Medical Xpress August 1, 2012 By Gerry Everding New research suggests as much as 10 percent of individual variances in human intelligence can be predicted based on the strength of neural connections between the left prefrontal cortex and other regions of the brain.
From OccupyCorporatism Susanne Posel Occupy Corporatism Aug 1, 2012 The US government has been scheming on how to provide for continuity of government for many decades now. According to Peter Santilli, an informant who is an ex-marine and worked on portions of the contingency plans known as Rex […]
Apparently, the network is experiencing some technical problems and I am currently unable to record additional programs until further notice. I have already recorded several programs that will be posted in the future including shows on Hezbollah, the U.S.-Israel relationship, dissenting views in the scientific and medical community […]
From the Guardian. Somali Muslims: tough crowd! __________ One of Somalia‘s most popular comedians, known for his parodies of Islamist militants, has been shot dead in the capital, Mogadishu. Abdi Jeylani Marshale was reportedly killed shortly after leaving a local radio station where he worked as a drama […]
From MSN CHICAGO — Illinois Governor Pat Quinn on Tuesday proposed a state ban on assault weapons in the aftermath of the July 20 movie theater massacre in Colorado in which a former graduate student is charged with killing 12 people with guns including a semi-automatic rifle. Quinn, […]
From MSN A 4-year-old’s drawing of a “door to a magic land” earned a Richmond, Virginia mom a $325 fine, a ban from all city parks and a whopping 50 hours of community service. Susan Mortensen was ticketed in March for allowing her daughter to draw with chalk on […]
By Peter Bradley Ominously, although national presidential polls show a neck-and-neck race for the Presidency, or even a slight lead for GOP presidential nominee-presumptive Mitt Romney, the Electoral College maps tell a much grimmer story. According to the CNN electoral map projections, Obama leads the race by 247 […]
By Fred Reed Patriotism is everywhere thought to be a virtue rather than a mental disorder. I don’t get it. If I told the Rotarians or an American Legion hall that “John is a patriot,” all would approve greatly of John. If I told them that patriotism was […]
From Southern Nationalist Network Today, on the Golden Circle podcast, we take a look at Hunter Wallace’s recent review of Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s book An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. The book argues the same point we have made many times on this site – that Dixie was the […]
From BlacklistedNews.Com 1 Mind Control, Child Abuse – Project MKULTRA, Subproject 68 This is the stuff of nightmares.The CIA-ran Project MKULTRA paid Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron for Subproject 68, which would be experiments involving mind-altering substances. The entire goal of the project was to probe examination into methods […]
By Elaine Woo Gore Vidal was impossible to categorize, which was exactly the way he liked it. The reading public knew him as a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels —from the historical “Lincoln” to the satirical “Myra Breckinridge” — and volumes of essays critics consider among the most […]
By Natalie Hopkinson I was joking on Twitter the day before I was scheduled to read and sign “Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City” at Politics & Prose, the legendary bookstore near the Chevy Chase neighborhood, one of the city’s whitest and wealthiest corners of D.C. […]
lewrockwell.com Michael S. Rozeff Tanks rolling toward a Bahrain protester: Which side was the U.S. on in Bahrain? The U.S. picks its sides according to power plays that have nothing to do with the fanciful pap about freedom, democracy, morality, obligation, and duty provided for public consumption by […]
New Old IRA? — english.pravda.ru Lyuba Lulko When British Queen Elizabeth II made a “historic” visit to Northern Ireland and even shook hands with former militant Martin McGuinness, who had allegedly killed her relative, it seemed that the Irish Republican Army remained forever in the past. However, on […]
timesofindia.indiatimes.com The policy of women and children first on the Titanic led to 70 per cent of these groups being saved, compared with just 20 per cent of the men, but such selfless courage of these men is an exception. Contrary to popular perception, a new study has […]
rawstory.com Agence France-Presse Italy’s highest court ruled that telling a man he has “no balls” as an insult is a crime punishable with a fine because it hurts male pride in a ruling on a curious row between two cousins. The case was brought to the supreme court […]
Sounds like a first-class reprobate! From Russia Today. ______________ An Oregon man is expected to spend a month in jail after being convicted on nine misdemeanor charges related to his illegal use of…water. Gary Harrington was sentenced after being found guilty of illegally collecting water on his own […]
Hat tip to Gabriel Brown. Today’s episode of The Conscious Resistance w/ Derrick Brozefeaturing Craig FitzGerald of WAC-NYC and NATA-NY talking about National Anarchism and more. Starts at 60 minutes in.http://www.blogtalkradio.com/freedomizerradio/2012/07/30/cthepowerconscious-resistance This interview should be good folks.
By Rob Parsons Police officers refused to get into the water to save a man drowning in a London canal because they had not had the right training, an inquest heard. Unemployed Panayiotis Petrou, 30, died after getting into the Grand Union canal near King’s Cross station while […]
This guy just really needs to go fuck himself. From CBS News First he took on big servings of soda. Next on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s agenda is infant formula. Going into effect on September 3, New York City’s mayor will implement his voluntary Latch On NYC initiative in which infant […]
From BrassCheckTV.Com Drug warriors often contend that drug use would skyrocket if we were to legalize or decriminalize drugs in the United States. Fortunately, we have a real-world example of the actual effects of ending the violent, expensive War on Drugs and replacing it with a system of […]
By Paul Joseph Watson It’s not just the Department of Homeland Security that is gearing up for the prospect of civil unrest in America. The U.S. Army also recently purchased a stock of riot gear including batons, face masks and body shields. As we reported last week, the […]
Progressives sure got taken for a ride by this guy. On his first day in office, Obama vowed to shut down Guantanamo within a year. 3 years later, he’s overseeing a $40 million renovation of the facility. Oops.
By Hans Bader New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn wants to kick Chick-fil-A out of New York because its CEO said he opposed gay marriage. She sent the head of New York University, which leases space to the one Chick-fil-A restaurant in New York City, a letter stating, “Chick-fil-A is not welcome […]
From FullFact.Org Since the Government launched its new ‘e-petitions’ site this week there has been a surge in debate surrounding the death penalty – one of the most popular topic areas in the site’s first few days. Newspapers, bloggers and other commentators quickly joined the debate with both sides of […]
By Will Potter When FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents raided multiple activist homes in the Northwest last week, they were in search of “anti-government or anarchist literature.” The raids were part of a multi-state operation that targeted activists in Portland, Olympia, and Seattle. At least three people were […]
Anthony Gregory chimes in on Cathygate at the Independent Institute. ________ In the last two weeks, we have seen the weakness of many left-liberals’ support for civil liberties. Last week, progressive bloggers, activists, and politicians piled on Chick-fil-A, whose president Dan Cathy has spoken critically of and supported […]
From the Daily Mail. Seriously fucked-up, but not terribly surprising… __________ By Dan Newling Even in a country that sees 44 murders a day, the case has left the public horrified. A gang of robbers gunned down a father, raped and murdered his wife. Then, in a final […]
Hopefully, this will be a lesson for those conservatives and libertarians who persist in supporting the Republicans on the grounds they’re more likely to appoint pro-2nd Amendment justices to the Supreme Court. From FOX News Foxnews Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Sunday the Second Amendment leaves open […]
From Activist Post According to court documents, Adam “Ademo” Mueller, journalist and co-host of nationally syndicated radio talk show Free Talk Live, has been indicted on three counts of felony wiretapping. The charges are a result of a vlog Mueller posted on CopBlock.org about an incident involving alleged police misconduct, which […]
By Alessandra Ram Female patrons are visiting shooting ranges in greater numbers, some carrying leopard-print concealment purses. Will their training really make society safer? Iakov Filimonov/Shutterstock It’s Ladies Night at the gun range. No longer the sacred pastime of cowboys and Indians, shooting has become a favorite pastime […]
EMEMBERING A LOST WORLD – BEFORE THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN PHOTO: The Student Lounge at the University of Tehran in 1971. According to the New York Times, “Until the revolution, Iran was among the most cultured, cosmopolitan countries in the region. It had a progressive movement in […]
(H) So much for “land of the free”. Note that the majority of the Americans imprisoned are in for non-violent, victimless crimes.
How today’s conservatives are yesterday’s liberals. By Paul Gottfried In an eloquent address before the Council of Conservative Citizens, my friend John Derbyshire undertakes a difficult task: he wishes to make us more appreciate of what he calls “Mainstream Conservatism,” VDARE.com calls “Conservatism, Inc.” and I call “the Alternative Left” John lists for our […]
Enough of your hypocrisy, neocons and Obama supporters.
From The Daily Paul [Via InformationLiberation.com] Video clip from local news station at the link below. What’s wrong with the police? Are officers so unskilled and scared that they must tase a skinny 12 year old girl? And this all began because of her mom not paying traffic tickets? […]
From The Atlantic An investigation undertaken by law clinics at NYU, Fordham, Harvard, and Stanford has concluded, after eight months of study, that the NYPD abused Occupy Wall Street protesters and violated their rights on numerous occasions during the 2011 protests that radiated out from Zuccotti Park. Their […]
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