The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who loves his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
Reverend G R Gleig, survived the First Anglo-Afghan War to write in 1843:
...a war begun for no wise purpose, carried on with a strange mixture of rashness and timidity, brought to a close after suffering and disaster, without much glory attached either to the government which directed, or the great body of troops which waged it. Not one benefit, political or military, has Britain acquired with this war. Our eventual evacuation of the country resembled the retreat of an army defeated.
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We talked earlier about Oklahoma's junior senator, Republican Tom Coburn
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Antiwar.com Sues FBI After Secret Surveillance
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Bill Moyers – Enabling Greed
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Very rarely do I repost an article in it’s entirety. As a rule, I include
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the re...
On Alec Baldwin
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This fellow perplexes me. He's funnier than shit (Saturday Night Live, 30
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in in...
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Train crash video
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On “Real Time with Bill Maher” this past Friday, Bill Maher referred to the
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To Mothers Everywhere
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Same as last year and the year before that. The post for this day will
never change.
Pauline wrote
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R.I.P. Kansas
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With a few minor changes in events, names and places Jason Probst's obituary for his native state of Kansas, which recently ran in The Hutchinson News, could...
By Any Means Nesssary Part 24
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Minny was up at the crack of dawn,as the old folk use to say before God
turned on the lights.The Smell of smoked country ham smoldered the
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I don't really have anything new to say about our current political
situation so I've decided to write about something really important. The
coolest song e...
Photos of bag near Boston blast generate interest
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Back on the Healthy Living Bus
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Since I birthed two boys, I fell off the Healthy Living bus. Granted, I
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Bahrain's Monarchy Cannot Erase Nabeel Rajab
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COUSINS OF A DIFFERENT KIND
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*In 1963 Tom and I were finishing school in Chapel Hill,graduate and law
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segregationi...
MSF Criticizes UN Aid Effort for Syria
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by Oz Katerji (Syria Newsdesk) Doctors Without Borders (MSF) slammed
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some of ...
What’s wrong with this picture?
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Propaganda from the “Canadian Center for Bioethical Reform” — the
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Predict the 2012 Presidential Election Yourself
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it is possible for viewers to make their own predictions while watching the
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By David Swanson Dedicated and disciplined nonviolent activists, and in
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lost ...
April 13: Forgetting Fair Play
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Have ya ever wondered where God is when you Really need Him?
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Dodgers Now blog redesigned, has new address
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Great Depression II
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From a N.Y. Times commenter:
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"Failure" of the Super Committee??
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Blogger Blues
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Buh Bye Blogger! Moving to WordPress.
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911 Was Child's Play??
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I stopped updating this blog last year, and I am no longer writing for Mad
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wh...
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*"Advertising is legalized lying."
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Monty Burns on friendship
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Justifiable Police Brutality
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If I reacted to being stopped and cited for jay-walking in this manner, and
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interesting with all the various authors/writers we have had over the
couple of ...
Matthew Alexander
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In the near future, I am planning a column on my site, The Vigil, in which
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Racism in China
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