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The Nobel Audacity Prize Goes to Cheney

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If there were a Nobel Audacity Prize, former Vice-President Dick Cheney would deserve to win it, hands-down. This guy is unbelievable. He’s taking President Obama to task for “dithering” by not immediately sending 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan. So, here’s a guy who, along with President Bush, had 7 years to straighten things out in Afghanistan. For all practical purposes, nothing tied their hands — not the Constitution (e.g., the declaration of war requirement), not the Congress, not the courts, and not the UN. Here was omnipotent government in action. Yet, despite having the power to do whatever they wanted in their invasion, occupation, and rebuilding of Afghanistan, seven years later, as Bush and Cheney were exiting Washington, U.S. troops were still occupying the country, and, even worse, things were going from bad to worse, as reflected by the call to send in thousands of more troops ...

The Unreal World of Liberals

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One of the fascinating things about liberals is how they create their own false realities and then simply ignore or block out of their minds facts that conflict with that reality. We have witnessed this phenomenon, big time, during the housing and banking crises. The crises were the fault of the free market, the liberals claim, because as everyone “knows,” America has a “free-enterprise” system, one that has once again failed. And what about the fact that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were at the core of the crisis, were government-created institutions, both of which had the implicit guarantee of the federal government? What about the mortgage regulations that forced lenders to make risky loans? What about the Federal Reserve’s artificially low interest rates that blew air into the housing bubble? What about the plethora of federal agencies that regulate the banking and lending industries?

Drug-War Assassinations

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The U.S. government has now extended its assassination program to the drug war. According to the New York Times, the Pentagon now has an assassination list for suspected drug dealers in Afghanistan. No arrests. No hearings. No attorneys. No judges. No trials. Just kill them. Great! So now the occupation of Afghanistan has expanded not only to CIA drone assassinations but also now to Pentagon’s drug-war assassinations. U.S. officials are justifying the drug-war assassinations as part of their counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan. They say that they’re only going to be assassinating those drug dealers whose drug trafficking is benefiting the terrorists. I wonder how they make that determination, especially without judicial hearings and trials. Keep in mind that U.S. officials justify their occupation of Afghanistan as part of their overall “war on terrorism.” ...