By Mickey Walker-November 10, 2013
I have studied to understand the political beliefs of many parties and groups and why they believe as they do. The Tea Party is one of the biggest stumpers of all, however, because it is near impossible to understand what they stand for and believe in. It is a moving...
By Conn Hallinan 10.15.13
Sofia, Bulgaria
The military museum in this sprawling capitol city consists of a tiny building and a huge outdoor display of weapons that look as if they had been wheeled in fresh from the battlefields and parked, higgledy piggledy: mountain howitzers that shelled Turks in 1912 rub hubs with Cold War era Russian artillery. MIGs, dusty and weather beaten, crowd a sinister looking Luna-M “Frog” tactical nuclear...
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By Iris Vander Pluym - 11.10.13
Some people really should just shut up.
First there's David Petraeus. After getting caught with his pants down* and being forced to resign as CIA Director, Petraeus has been a very, very busy conservative trying to reclaim some of his former glory. Petraeus is one of those smart conservatives—by far the most dangerous subspecies (think Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Roberts). Seriously, this d00d has a Ph.D. in International Relations from Princeton.
By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH - 11.01.13
So you think that the GOP-controlled Congress (the House through their majority, the Senate through the filibuster and other Senate “customs” like one-person “holds”) is going to let pass the “bi-partisan” immigration reform bill that came out of the Senate, especially when President Obama (who certain GOP House members can’t even stand to look at --- couldn’t be the color of his skin, could it?) has...
Read MoreBy Michael Faulkner – 11.03.13
It is tempting to extend the pun by describing the close cooperation between the United States’ NSA and the United Kingdom’s GCHQ in snooping on their own people and the rest of the world, as the USSR – the United Spies Special Relationship. In the past, Letter from the UK has been very skeptical about the “special relationship” that is claimed...
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By Loren Adams, 11.3.13
It began as an ordinary Friday – looking forward to the weekend, checking out trailers of new movies, finishing to-do lists, planning visits to yard sales and craft fairs to appease the wife, getting ready for the football game [which I may watch out of obligation], the wife making an 11 o’clock Saturday doggy groomer appointment for our Boo, the Shih Tzu. ...
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