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How do you become a second rate sports league? Take a lesson from the NFL. Today the Patriots play the Giants in a bid to complete the first undefeated regular season since the 1972 Dolphins. Unfortunately, in order to actually...

A Bhutto Successor

Time reports that Bhutto's nineteen-year-old son, Bilawal Bhutto, will take over the leadership of her Pakistan People's Party: A senior official of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) told TIME late Saturday that the slain former prime minister's 19-year-old son,...

Lesson From Pakistan: Foreign Policy Is Hard

When I teach American Foreign Policy this coming term I aim to stress one important point: foreign policy is hard. When attempting to set the nation's policy toward the world the president and other decision makers are faced with so...

Huckabysmal Ignorance on Pakistan

The Washington Post has a good test of the various candidates for President: how they reacted to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Here is the summary of results: THE ASSASSINATION of Benazir Bhutto presented U.S. presidential candidates with a test:...

Change is coming....

The Gay Divorcee

It just goes to show you, it's always something. Now that gay couples have the right to marry in Massachusetts, a new problem has arisen: divorce. For example, how do courts resolve disputes over the custody of children? From the...

Plutocracy and secular humanism

Cory Heidelberger goes after Bob Ellis and myself: More often than not, Bob Ellis and Steve Sibson are the car wrecks of South Dakota blogging: so ugly and gruesome I can't help looking. But as I read Senator R.F. Pettigrew's...

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DBA was propaganda?

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Texas Honor Killing?

What do Norm Coleman and Mike Huckabee have in common?

Honor killings in Dallas? Muslim father sought in murders of young daughters

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Building A Better Election Part II

Ron Paul On The Civil War

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Abortion and Cultural Marxism

Pat Powers is a liar?

No Illusions About Pakistan

A challenge from Stan's employee

Building A Better Election

SanFran Nan: ?I?ll be good?later.?

Waterboarding: The Adult Speaks

What if the internet and blogs had been around earlier?

Bloomberg For President?

Huckabysmal Ignorance 2

Mrs. Clinton on Pakistan

More RC Mayor Stuff - On the net, and in the paper.

Reflections on Iowa

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