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Goddamn Ken Burn’s you’ve done it again – “The Viet Nam War” is a masterpiece

If you don’t know,  Ken Burns and Lynn Novak have made a documentary on “The Viet Nam War” It’s spectacular, poignant and measured. There is no grandstanding, no rah rah, just people’s story’s juxtaposed against the historical record of the war itself. I’m 3 episodes and 5 hours in… and I’m crying. When you watch […]

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This is the beginning of the Ayn-Randian Nightmare

Look hard at the USA. What state are we in that young men feel the need to become terrorists? The state of the poor is the same as it is in Saudia Arabia, Pakistan or any other country traditionally home to terrorism.

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Let the states be states…

Just read this in the National Review Got me thinking… One thing that I am beginning to believe in is the increase in States rights. The spectre of slavery was vanquished, racism has been LEGALLY removed from the law. So why are we trying to impose views on each other state by state? Maybe it’s time […]

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