Archive for July, 2009

In case you ever wondered what they think of Ron Paul supporters over at Politico.com, this video clip goes a long way in giving you a good idea.
I believe there is a reason that the left-wing media continues to talk about the Obama birth certificate issue (which I believe is the red herring to end all red herrings). I believe it gives them a great opportunity to attack the Liberty movement on an issue that will never be resolved.
Rather than engaging the Liberty movement on issues like the Federal Reserve or sound money, this Obama birth issue gives them a short hand for crazy and not credible.

“…We shall not cease from exploring and at the end of our exploration, we shall return to the place we started and know the place for the first time.”

-T.S. Eliot

The most important figure in American foreign policy since Rumsfield or Cheney as recently passed. Robert McNamara please rest in peace.

He was a dynamic figure in my mind because of he was brought to the front and center of my attention in the adolescence of my political growth with the film Fog of War.

He was at the center of carrying out some of the worst atrocities of the human race and yet at the end of his life he spoke out against the very things he was involved in.

In the end he is the true study of a high level brain that carries out the strategy of the diplomats. He was everything that was wrong and is wrong with the US empire. He used his voice to speak out against the things that he made possible and my feeling is that he died and sad and regretful man.

McNamara is perhaps the greatest example that the problem with war, and further the American Empire. He show that it is not personal, yet systemic. He fell into this job, by his own account. He was not angling for power, yet when it fell in his lap he accepted it. And he carried out the goals of destruction against Southwest Asia with brutal accuracy.

So sad is the Vietnamese cries echoing down through time mourning the death of the one who tortured them.

He said at one point in the documentary that “reason has limits.” This is what I fear in the coming months for our country.

And finally as I hear the choke in his throat as he reads the T.S. Eliot quote, I myself choke. Because sad is the situation that we find ourselves in, and I pray only that we can stop it.

There are already several schools of thought forming on why Sarah Palin has resigned from the Office of Governor of Alaska.
The first school of thought is that this will free her up to raise money and travel in the continental 48 in order to raise the money needed for either a 2010 Senatorial run, or a 2012 Presidential run. I don’t buy this theory.
If this theory was the case she would not be announcing on a Friday afternoon holiday weekend, as if she has something to hide.
I believe that there is something here below the surface that she is attempting to bury. And she will likely be unsuccessful.
Time will tell after the euphoria of the 4th on the sober Sunday morning shows we will begin to see a more clear picture of this move on Palin’s part.