war on terror

Don’t “Fix” The Department Of Homeland Security, Abolish It!

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Can you imagine living in 2013 and actually living to see the day that there is a tarpaulin thrown over the ash heap remains of a former ABC federal agency? Oh, the joy of seeing that, my friends. Oh, the bliss of seeing that. I can’t afford it, but I’m gonna go out and buy me a couple bottles of White Star champagne to […]

July 18, 2013 9

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Defense Spending, Appropriations Bills, And Surveillance State Create A Leviathan-Sized Accounting Labyrinth

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I am dealing with a decimal percentage five zeroes to the right of the decimal point of what the Congress or Senate is dealing with on just one of these appropriations bills. They have to go through this every single year. If you have ever tried to slog through reading one of these monstrosities, you probably made it maybe 10 or 15 pages in […]

July 18, 2013 6

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American Exceptionalism Demagoguery, Lincoln Myths, And Rand Paul

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – By the way, Mr. Goldberg, while we’re on the subject, if you want to start convicting people and accusing them of bigotry and bile, why don’t you read to your National Review Online audience -- or would you like me to do it for you? -- some of the more particular and unbelievably racist sentiments and writings of the great Abraham Lincoln? Check out […]

July 17, 2013 19

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Spies Spying On Spies, The Delicious Irony Of Big Government And The Surveillance State

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – What the president has basically asked members of the federal leviathan to do is to spy on each other now. So their surveillance state produces such disorder and such distrust inside the surveillance state that the guy that’s running the surveillance state asks people in the surveillance state to surveil people that are in it. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

July 11, 2013 2

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NSA And Congress Aren’t Too Happy With The Peasantry Knowing The Truth

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Why do we have members of Congress, like Mike Rogers, why are they giving these vainglorious speeches and grandstanding and basically pulling the congressional pom-poms out and cheerleading this stuff? It is Congress’s job, it is their duty, to oversight this, to oversee it and look for where it is not functioning as it is supposed to, where there are abuses, and to correct […]

June 20, 2013 20

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Is Congress Really Shocked At NSA Revelations Or Just Oscar-Worthy Actors?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – While common defense is a lofty goal and one of the lofty aspirations of our federal constitution, it is not the only loft aspiration. People act as though the defense from terrorist madmen is the only thing our government is supposed to protect us from. The way our government is constructed, it is also supposed to protect us from government. Government can be as […]

June 19, 2013 2

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Majority Of Americans Welcome Big Brother In The Name Of “Security”

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – So a Soviet-style form of government, form of life is right around the corner? Some people would say: That’s the price you gotta pay. Wow. Do schools in the United States even teach the term “civil liberties” anymore? Does it mean anything to anyone outside of the very energetic and motivated among us when it comes to these sorts of things? Check out today’s […]

June 11, 2013 5

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Interview With Glenn Greenwald on National Security and Foreign Policy

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Did you ever think that your political alliances, particularly in foreign policy, would come from so many different factions that would not traditionally be thought of as likeminded on anything, like libertarians want to legalize marijuana, the anti-war left, those on the right like Pat Buchanan that has a similar view on foreign policy? The view towards foreign policy is really forming some strange […]

June 10, 2013 11

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Obama’s Speech About Drones Is As Sterile And Detached As The Drones Themselves

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – What is the future of drone warfare? There are some of us that believe that the intervention that has been taking place must end. The words “ending the war on terror” are never going to be uttered as long as our bellicosity continues. Glenn Greenwald points this out and has been pointing this out for years and years and years. Until you stop holding […]

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