Just a thought: Russia and Georgia… more similar than different?
For more on the conflict, I highly recommend this interview of Pat Buchanan (who is about as far from pro-Russian as anyone) by Scott Horton of Anti-War.com

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Take this food nannies:

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According to the results of a Rasmussen survey released today, 47% of our fellow countrymen (47%!) “believe the government should require all radio and television stations to offer equal amounts of conservative and liberal political commentary….” This is up from the 41% results of July 2007.
Further, 31% favor requiring internet sites to also balance their [...]

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“To hawks, it is always 1938, and every adversary is the next Hitler.”

Given the recent saber-rattling from US policy makers over Georgia, this article by Ted Galen Carpenter (of the Cato Institute) seems particularly on point:

The World War II experience is so pervasive in American culture that it’s nearly imprinted on the national DNA. People [...]

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John Edwards… a hypocrite and liar? Say it ain’t so!
Forgive me for not being surprised that a politician engaged in sleazy acts and then lied about them in an effort to further his ambitions.  But at least we no longer have to listen to his patronizing BS.
I do wonder what took the “respectable” media [...]

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Here’s a leftist plot I can get behind:

This blogger, sickened by Rush Limbaugh’s noxious “Operation: Chaos,” which may or may not have influenced the Texas primary (and quite possibly Ohio and Indiana) in favor of Senator Clinton — and thus lengthening the Democratic primary process — is fed up. We’re mad as hell and not [...]

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I’m not one for government-mandates, but I’ve always observed that if “liberal” jurists read the 2nd Amendment like they some did other parts of the Constitution, they’d probably want to mandate gun ownership.
Which is just what a small town of Kennesaw, GA did.  Despite the dire predictions by anti-gun rights activists, the city is now [...]

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As evidenced by by this silly Washington Post commentary titled “McCain’s Problem isn’t his Tactics. It’s GOP Ideas,” the left (joined by their big government allies in the GOP) will do their best to portray Republican electoral failures as evidence of the failure of limited government conservatism.
As Matt Welch observes: “This critique requires a significant [...]

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