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Is Romney Really an Interventionist or Just a Hawker of USA USA?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Over and over again last night, you heard the governor and you heard his running mate Paul Ryan macho man bluster about “We’re going to be strong. America’s got to be bold. America’s got to be loud. We’ve got to be the most obnoxious SOBs on Earth.” In other words, running around the planet, don’t apologize for America, threaten people with America. In Romneyland, […]

October 23, 2012 4

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Premiers To Fear: Obama And Romney Want To Rule the World

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - We have civilian control over military affairs. That’s supposed to be the American tradition. In the last 40 years, we really don’t have civilian control, see Vietnam War. We’re supposed to have civilian control over military affairs. If the people don’t want to go to war, you don’t go to war. If the people don’t support a war, you end the war. This is […]

October 23, 2012 5

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If Letters Die, How Will the Future Know Our History?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Here’s another article that I found, stumbled across yesterday: “Preserve Digital Letters.” This is written by a cat named Fady Zaki at something attached  to Reason Magazine. This guy lives in New Zealand. This guy makes a very interesting observation. This goes out to all you 20-somethings and mid-30-somethings. When was the last time you picked up an ink pen, sat down with paper […]

October 22, 2012 4

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Mike Reads Letter from the Earl of Chesterfield

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - If you really want to educate yourselves and your sons, gentlemen, I want you to pick a copy up -- it’s free of charge at the Gutenberg Press or at MikeChurch.com -- the Earl of Chesterfield’s wonderful work of letters to his son on how to become a gentleman of the world and a statesman. Every morning I make it a ritual now, I […]

October 19, 2012 1

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Michael Scheuer Lays Out the Real Cards On Our Interventionist Table

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - I have this most interesting post here from Michael Scheuer at Nonintervention.com: “Pity poor America: Obama, Romney, and Foreign Policy.” This is new Scheuer, just posted. I really think, though, as long as this essay is, that if you really want to grasp it, you have to read the whole thing. There might be a couple of paragraphs that you can leave out. Michael […]

October 19, 2012 3

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Hey DeceptiCONS: Do We Have to Spread Some American Exceptionalism in Bangladesh?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - I believe somewhere in my closet at home, I have at least one shirt that was sewn together by the people of Bangladesh. They’re big into textiles. Should we get together and have a Bangladesh burning party? We’ll all get our fabrics and shirts together and anything that has been made in Bangladesh. I think I bought the Bangladeshi shirt because I try not […]

October 18, 2012 4

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How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Spell

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Letters have been written in the same manner for millennia, not years or decades, millennia. We can’t even write a formal letter anymore, or most of us can’t write a formal letter. You’ll notice, if you’re doing email correspondence with me, I am trying to, at least in my little corner of the world, trying to reacquaint myself with how to write a letter. […]

October 17, 2012 3

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No Hope Except Through God

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - If you’re looking for answers, look heavenward. Look to the good book, look to the old book, look to the blessed mother, look to whatever deity or god it is to whom you pray. There you will find more comfort, more peace, and more solutions on how to fix things in your life. Maybe if we just got back to the practice of fixing […]

October 17, 2012 7

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How Stonewall Jackson Can Teach Our Sons and Us About Being Gentleman

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - One of the things that has gone off the train tracks and it is our job as men to put it back on -- no, I am not calling you ladies into service because this is not your job. Sorry, but that’s one of the things that’s gone off the track. There is a difference between what a guy’s job is, what a gentleman’s […]

October 16, 2012 2