Many may have noticed that I've been relatively quiet on this blog for the last couple of months, especially on political and strategic issues. The reason is that I despair of any positive change in the American political or strategic position over the next four years
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A throwaway comment in someone else's journal made me realize the extent to which many Americans have accepted and internalized the myth of the "October Surprise." So I thought I'd talk about it -- what was claimed, what was proven, and why it's almost certainly not only impossible -- but would have been irrelevant to the outcome of the Hostage
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Obama has carried flip-flopping to new heights. In the space of a month and a half, this candidate - who we don’t really yet know very well -
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At first I disbelieved the rumors that Barack Obama was raised Muslim. Even after my fiancee began saying that she suspected this, I assumed that she was just being an alarmist.
But, apparently, Barack really was raised Muslim
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