The Immigration-Bigotry-War Nexus

Americans increasingly view Muslims as a threat to their security, especially Republicans.  According to a Pew Charitable Forum survey in 2017, 65 percent of Republicans believe there is a "natural conflict between Islam and democracy." Amusingly, 56...

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You Can’t Be a Christian and Tolerate Torture

I've run into a number of self-proclaimed Christians (both Catholic and Protestant) who openly proclaim they favor torture of detainees in the "war on terror." I've always thought that's a strange thing for a person whose Savior was tortured to death to say. Arguments...

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Carpet-bombing the Clichés

A few Hannitized dittobots are not worth the effort in debating the Iraq war. I've come to reply in kind to those who scream "treason" or rudely tell me that I don't "support the troops." Usually, my drippingly sarcastic reply to the irreconcilably rude goes something...

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Who’s a Patriot,
Who’s an Oppressor?

If 500 years from now American soldiers are still on patrol in Iraq, they won't be called Iraq's "liberators." After five centuries of armed occupation, it would be hard to describe them as anything other than an oppressive imperial force. And Iraqis who attack U.S....

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Bush Hands the Terrorists Victory

The foiled terrorist plot in Britain last week has me concluding that the terrorists have won, and that President Bush has handed them their victory. "This week, America received a stark reminder that terrorists are still plotting attacks to kill our...

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Rise Up, Fellow
Enemies of the State

Let's take George W. Bush at his word. Last week, Bush said of the National Security Agency's telephone data mining program: "Our efforts are focused on links to al-Qaeda and their known affiliates." But USA Today and other news sources had just revealed that the NSA...

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Now Is the Time for
a Left-Right Alliance

I'm currently a life member of the John Birch Society and formerly served on the staff of the organization for 13 years. So why should any left-winger reading this care a fig about what I have to say? Because of a conversation I had with another conservative magazine...

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He’s Not Your
Commander in Chief

Like many Americans, I've heard it so many times in casual conversations that I can cite it verbatim: "I'm not sure Bush is doing everything the best way, but he is our commander in chief, and we need to stand behind him during this time of war." I used to...

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