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Numerous crimes aside from murder, including betrayal of governmental trust, also carry the death penalty, and the visitation of justice is sure and swift. —The Urantia Book URANTIA — [C.U.News] In a development today that surprised even veteran DC reporters, not a single Republican was indicted, convicted, resigned, or announced a sudden overwhelming urge to spend more time with his …

THE DANGERS OF DEMOCRACY Part I

George Bush the candidate warned us that he decried nation-building. After invading Iraq, the justifications for doing so devolved from looking for weapons of mass destruction to spreading democracy, even if we had to kill a million or so people to “gitter done.” But the world did not heave a collective sigh of relief. People smarter than George Bush have …

When The Queen Bows Down

The endgame comes apace and we are left to face the ravaged queen displaced; the horse eye never quite diminished as She wanders ’round the corner.

Will The Press Ever Give McCain a Break?

For weeks on end, Senator John McCain, the valiant warrior/hero of our last interminable war, has borne the torturous brunt of the MSM’s obsession with his plans for continuing the Iraq War indefinitely, our worsening economic catastrophuck, and his recent spate of “senior moments,” which they insinuate reveals his funda-mental inability to understand the dynamics of the Middle East. The …

4,000 US Troops KIA in Iraq

From Nico Pitney, a mosaic of photos of Americans fallen in Iraq. McCain says US succeeding in Iraq [Catastrophuck] LIZ SIDOTI  HufPo CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Fresh off his eighth Iraq visit, Sen. John McCain declared Monday that “we are succeeding” and said he wouldn’t change course _ even as the U.S. death toll rose to 4,000 and the war …

Can You Say Apocalypse?

The fetish word of authority is a fear-inspiring doctrine, the most terrible of all tyrants which enslave men. A doctrinal fetish will lead people to betray themselves into the clutches of bigotry, fanaticism, superstition, intolerance, and the most atrocious of barbarous cruelties. —The Urantia Papers IT’S A QUAINT BUT POPULAR NOTION for some Americans to say they hate the idea …

Church and State in America

Anyone who hasn’t noticed the rabid up-tick in the perceived toxic ties between the presidential candidates and their religious affiliations gets a sincere “get well soon,” because you have to be in some kind of coma. The only one who appears to have escaped the holy vetting is Mrs Clinton, which may speak more to the fact she has no …