Porter Rockwell: Interesting Times

Romney's Selective Amnesia

Flash back to the ignominious testimony of Bush's Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales before the Senate Judiciary Committee. His mantra was "I don't recall." Seventy-Four Times!! Everybody in the room, certainly including Gonzales himself, knew he was a sniveling liar playing the  …

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Republicans are STILL in Denial - Why Won't They Answer?

In a previous column, I asked the question: ARE REPUBLICANS ASHAMED OF BUSH???? I've asked that question over and over in various threads here. Whenever I've asked, there have been either two categories of answers ... Few or NONE

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Hey! Knuckledraggers ...

Finally, a RWNJ said something I agree with. Richard Mourdock just defeated six term senator Richard Lugar in the Republican Indiana primary. It's important to emphasize that this is just the internal death rattle of the Republican party, not the general election. The "drag 'e …

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The End of Anonymity

Losing all of your privacy might not be such a bad thing. When LA cops beat Rodney King to the ground in 1991, it might have been the one of the first ripples of a tidal wave that is now sweeping across the entire world. That incident would probably have been ignored and forgotte …

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UDACITY - Get Educated Today

When I was a science undergraduate, so many years ago, I was required to take a beginning Fortran programming class by the department. Computers were new then and the only ones in existance occupied whole floors of buildings. To make the story really short, I fell in love with …

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Moses and the Butterfly Wing

I love talking to my wife in the morning. She reads books and we talk about them. We also watch the morning news and talk about that too. I used to read a lot of books, but since I discovered the web, I mainly read only technical software books now to solve problems. Talking to m …

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Tom, Sally, Fawn, and David - Sex and History

Slate published a really interesting piece about Mormon "sealings" that focuses primarily on the fact that Mormons have sealed Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress and father of a number of his children, Sally Hemings "for time and eternity". This makes Sally at least wife num …

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Arms and The Man: Following Orders in the Military

Sorry Gary, It doesn't work that way. CNN has been pumping up a story about Gary Stein, a RWNJ who also happens to be a sargeant in the United States Marines. This particular RWNJ has been posting on a web page that he wouldn't follow orders from the commander in chief, President …

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Leonard Wood

Who was that guy Gingrich compared to Romney? George Santayana famously wrote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." As an amateur student of history, that seems right on target to me. Shilling for Romney, Faux News asked another amateur historian, Newt …

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The Bum's Rush

On Monday, we were winning the war to Flush Rush!! In my article, We Can't Let Rush Be Right, I pointed out that the struggle to get Rush off the air will be a long term fight. We have to keep up the pressure; just a few days won't do it. But, on the other hand, every day we win  …

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It's the advertising, Stupid!

Yeah ... I'm talking to you. You're the one letting marketing money sell you a bridge. On par with the Internet and the gasoline engine, advertising is one of the powerful engines driving the human species in this century and the one just past. Pioneers, such as Edward Bernays, t …

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Who are the Cling-On's Sticking to Rush?

The latest information is that we're down to just a handful of advertisers who are confirmed as sticking to Rush ... for now.

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Mormon Church Creates "Do Not Baptize" List!!

A news article today reveals that you can't access the names of Jewish holocaust victims who might have undergone "baptism for the dead" ceremonies in a Mormon temple. Mormon church restricts online access to Jewish names The list they refer to is the Mormon International Genealo …

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We Can't Let Rush Be Right

Limbaugh says that he's not being hurt. What's the truth? What can be done? On Wednesday's show, Rush said we're just lying when we say that sponsor flight from his show is hurting him. He devoted quite a bit a time to explaining it. (I didn't listen to the show, believe me.

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The Best Health Care System in the World?

It’s really just the biggest lie! During a health care summit held a while back, they kept repeating this lie over and over. Minority Leader Representative John Boehner: “We may have problems in our health care system, but we do have the best health care system i …

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The Super Tuesday Winner: Not Romney!!

Been hearing it all morning now: Gingrich wins big in Georgia! Santorum takes three states! Paul hangs in there with respectable results!

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The Good News!

Politics is ugly and it's worse this cycle. We need a break from ugly. I decided to write about just one category of good things from President Obama's watch. I picked foreign policy for this article.

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Science and Public Policy

Climate Change, Evolution, Flu Shots and lots of other questions are public policy battle grounds, especially in forums like this, where science is invoked by both sides. How do you figure out what the truth is?

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Guns and the United States

A Case Study in National Dementia. Let's get the case you already know all about out of the way first. This column isn't about it. Yes, I think the right-wing five on the Supreme Court are wrong, wrong, wrong in District of Columbia v. Heller.

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"Frustration" - The One Word Description of Politics Today

Headline: Komen retreats in face of outrage (Denver Post) Headline: Ellen DeGeneres ...

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"Clearing the Market" - A study in Republican Doublespeak

On Thursday (Feb 2), the Chief Nay-Sayer of the House, John Boehner, took to the airwaves for his latest condemnation of anything, anything at all that President Obama proposes to help America.

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Why Did Christianity Take Over?

Europe had quite a few perfectly good religions in the fourth century already. As a pure blooded Viking (Yep! As nearly as I can tell.) I have always wondered why my distant ancestors gave up on Thor, Odin, and the rest.

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"Pure" Capitalism's Built In Advantage for the Rich!!

I read a message today on the Vine retelling an old urban legend which supposedly "proves" that socialism doesn't work using the metaphor of a teacher who gives an average grade to a whole class. The story told by the message on the Vine is one I have heard before.

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Minutes of the Military, Banking, and Oil Association Meeting

Sponsored by the Grand Old Party of No Theme: More Power To Us! Location: Grand Ballroom of a six star beachfront hotel in South Carolina Karl Rove: Ladies and Gentlemen, before we offer thanks to the Lord, let us offer thanks to the many fine corporate sponsors that make it poss …

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Missing In Action

What does it tell you about the Republican choice last time around? I just finished watching the talking heads on every channel in Iowa this morning.

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