2 hours ago by Anthony Clark Arend

Two previous posts have discussed the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Over at Running Chicken my friend Professor Ari Kohen has an excellent post on the fall of the Wall entitled Der Mauerfall. Kohen writes: There has been – and there will be yet – a great deal written about the twe ...

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3 hours ago by Roland, the Gunslinger

The Jihadis will return. We know this, in the same way that we know about death and taxes. Thanks in large part to the weakening of our defensive efforts under the new administration, there will be further attacks against this country's population, perhaps even worse than those of 9/11. (This week's ...

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4 hours ago by Horatius

… and give us the excuse we need to kill you and topple your government. Chavez is threatening war with Columbia, going so far as to put troops on the border, and actually telling his country to prepare for war, because the Colombians have given a ten year lease of their army bases to the American m ...

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4 hours ago by Romulus

Ich bin ein…? Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The most shining example of peace and the triumph of freedom over tyranny, peace over war, and hope over despair. Guess who’s not attending? That one. But David Haselhoff is there. Just a bit of history and linguistics: The ...

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5 hours ago by Sarah Palin

Twenty years ago, the ultimate symbol of the division between freedom and tyranny was torn down. The Berlin Wall was constructed for one purpose: to prevent the escape of East Germans to the freedom of the West. The Wall’s cold, gray façade was a stark reminder of the economic and political way of l ...

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5 hours ago by William deB. Mills

The leader of the Israeli war party is finally granted access to the man elected to bring “change.” The Reception. As Haaretz put it: The White House wanted Netanyahu to sweat before being granted an audience with the president, and wanted everyone to see him perspire. The delays in finding a time t ...

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5 hours ago by Raymond

Germany Invites Obama to celebrate the fall of the Berlin wall – Obama says “sorry, too busy” Kennedy – I am a Berliner – Ich Bin Ein Berliner Martin Luther King Jr – I Have a Dream Reagan at Brandenburg Gate – “tear down this wall” Obama at White House–”I’m Going To Play Some Golf” Background Artic ...

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5 hours ago by caheidelberger

Why can't the other Republicans give us conversation-starters like this: GOP House candidate Thad Wasson rejects the neocon-Dick-Cheney snarl and advocates lifting sanctions on Iran and (gasp!) cooperating: America is getting blamed for all the woes in Iran when the Mullahs can't even keep the natur ...

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6 hours ago by Joe Martin

I believe this post finishes our site’s libertarian conversion. We now occupy the same portion of the libertarian spectrum that LewRockwell.com occupies. I don’t like America’s wars of aggression. The problem, as I see it, is that it can be hard to tell the difference between a war of aggression and ...

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6 hours ago by Johanna Neuman

Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall fell, marking the unofficial end of the Cold War. The wall had gone up in the dead of night on Sunday, Aug. 13, 1961, when East German soldiers closed the border to West Berlin. In the decades to come, thousands of East Berliners tried to climb the wall to fre ...

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