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The issues where Sens McCain and Obama differ significantly: a matrix, with commentary The attitude of many conservatives towards the candidacy of John McCain might – still – be best summed up by the comments of one recent participant in a conservative forum when he claimed that – “HillObamaCain are all one-in-the-same thing. Open borders, [...]

All and all then it is difficult to believe that Sen Obama did not and does not still – regardless of what he now claims in his speeches - share at least some of the views expressed by  his mentor in those sermons now in question.  Read Full Article

“”I just hope that enough people keep that catastrophe and the current dangers in mind when they vote in this coming election. …and that, instead of just ticking the same box as they’ve done all their lives out of habit…that they – particularly our fellow Jews – will spend a moment to consider that – [...]

The veterans and active-duty personnel who have supported the presidential aspirations of John McCain so far, may not be aware that he has advocated for measures that might leave some of them struggling to avoid spending the rest of their lives behind bars. More At: http://red-state-blue.blogs.com/my_weblog/2008/02/the-senator-giv.html#more

Not since the extermination of the Smurfs or the brutal murder of Xenia the Warrior Princess by testosterone-poisoned male FAR RIGHT WING Japanese-identified militarists/nationalists “warriors” – i.e. “Samurai” – has there been a being-rights crisis of this magnitude. Full Article @ http://red-state-blue.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/12/red_state_bluer.html#more

The decision to opt for a system by which the government paid for providers chosen by patients directly, pushed a ready and deep supply of money into the medical market and did so suddenly. It also made it so that a large population – the  disabled, elderly and  working poor – that had previously been [...]

The sad truth is that – the heartfelt, persistent and generally sensible efforts of those who support the efforts of American troops in Iraq cannot ultimately succeed if they – those efforts – are generally portrayed by the main-stream media as the rantings of a deluded fringe, the sincere strivings of a misguided minority, or, [...]

Originally Posted at Red State Blue “You’re nothing but a pack of cards.” — Alice in Wonderland  “Have You No Sense of Decency?” –  Joseph Welch to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, June 9th 1954 “Our brave American service men and women are sacrificing daily for a policy that has no end in sight. A policy of [...]

I generally have little patience for “chain-mails,” there are though exceptions. More: http://red-state-blue.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/09/call-and-respon.html#more

Filling the Ranks It is no news at all that – if we are to sustain a presence in Iraq sufficient (approximately 150-200 thousand troops) to carry through on the exceptional work being done there, reinforce and extend the NATO effort in Afghanistan, maintain a strategic reserve capable of intervening decisively in any other theatre [...]

Withdrawal A close friend – a leading expert on terrorists groups world-wide – recently remarked, concerning the issue of withdrawal of American forces from Iraq, that – [regardless of what success we might have against al-Qa'ida forces in Iraq] our forces [there] cannot remain in place indefinitely. I believe though that – unwittingly – my [...]