May 2009 - Political Certainty

I am posting this to let the 7 people in the world who, if they do not actually agree totally with me on all issues, political, economic and social, are at least prepared to hear me out.

Starting next week, SL and I will be engaged in a debate-discussion. Damo is going to moderate and keep us honest

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Acts of terrorism should be investigated, prosecuted and punished as criminal offenses

May 25th 2009 15:28

In a previous post, I suggested that the way to best challenge and defeat terrorists would be to use well established and experienced civilian law enforcement agencies to investigate, arrest, prosecute, and, if appropriate, punish and incarcerate those convicted through the regular judicial system.

Almost ten years ago, the United States General Accounting Office published a report studying the manner in which Canada, France, Germany, Israel, and the United Kingdom addressed the issues. Certainly, no one can doubt that the United Kingdom has had years of terrorist acts by the I.R.A. and Israel has been under the threat of imminent attacks from the day it was established

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The naming it a “War on Terror” creates a problem

May 25th 2009 15:21

Several years ago, I wrote of our proclivity to use the term “war” when we really mean focusing our resources to address a societal problem. Thus we have had a “war on poverty”, a “war against drugs”, a “war against inflation” and others. These are not real wars in the conventional sense; no one seriously expects to totally eradicate drugs or poverty, for example but there is no real harm in using the term.

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A more formal greeting

May 22nd 2009 18:06

The preceding piece was written by Nevar who is going to post occasional material to this site. I welcomed him in a comment appended to his article but I think that the occasion deserves special attention.

My comment was

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Is this the best we can do?

May 18th 2009 16:46

Not that anyone is likely to notice, it having been suggested that there may be six or seven misguided people, at most, who read my scribbles, but I am posting less and less on Orble and closing to write on and for Examiner and Worldblogosphere. In addition to the fact that they, or at least the former, pay far more, attempts that I have made to engage in dialogue with those opposed to my views have been totally rebuffed.

I am willing to take responsibility for this and accept that my inability to convince anyone to address issues and not engage in ad hominem attacks is the cause of this failure

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What the future has in store.

May 17th 2009 14:00

What the future holds.

Based on history, experience and plain common sense, I can reasonably be certain of these future events

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The replacement of a Supreme Court Justice

May 8th 2009 19:25

Justice Souter’s decision to retire at the end of the current Supreme Court term has created an opportunity for President Obama to nominate a successor member of the Court. It has also given many far-right commentators a chance to spew venom in anticipation of Mr. Obama’s choice.
The President said that he looks for diversity on the Court, life experience and not necessarily that of a Federal appellate Judge, and a Justice who would understand the needs of the people.

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Rabid Right embraces Flu

May 3rd 2009 01:10

I have written about the patently paranoid commentators on radio and television who see images of black mysterious helicopters, devious plots to turn the United States into a (take your choice) communist/fascist/socialist/a theist society.
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