The Manichean Paranoia Patch

AG is an initiative by Representative George Miller to receive and answer questions about the Iraq War. You can view the video and text questions here and then vote on the ones you want him to answer. With enough votes and patience, he will post a video response addressing your question. My […]

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In the event of a troop pullout, what responsibility, if any, does the United States have to the Iraqi Kurds? As the Kurds have always been the most democratically inclined group in Iraq (with the Kurdish National Assembly being the obvious example) and the strongest supporter of the United States, what steps (again, […]

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So this is a little bit random. This scantily clad YouTuber is flaunting herself in order to get more attention and more views. However, her videos all relate to word origins or word games. Although she inserts random pictures of bikini-wearing models into her videos, her main focus is etymology. I […]

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I missed watching the first YouTube Presidential Debate but I did read the transcript.  For those of you not familiar, for the last month anyone with a camera and a YouTube account has had the opportunity to film themselves asking a short (20-30 second) videoclip asking a candidate or candidates a question.  CNN selected the […]

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This is a little bit old as far as news goes, but I hadn’t heard of it before. It’s no joke- this was a real proposal by the U.S. military. Along with a number of other non-traditional weapons, the Air Force’s Wright Laboratory asked for 7.5 million dollars to develop a chemical aphrodisiac […]

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The United States of America has a permanent identity crisis.  This crisis spawns from two core values which are in constant conflict.  The U.S. envisions itself as a place of equality and a place where competition lets the competent rise to the top, in other words, a meritocracy.  Most Americans don’t even perceive the discrepancy.  […]

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“What does the Bible require of men in the area of economics and business? What does the Bible have to say about economic theory? Does it teach the free market, or socialism, or a mixture of the two, or something completely different? Is there rally an exclusively Christian approach to economics? Modern economic thought is […]

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I failed to get through “Yellow: Between Black and White.” It was thoughtful and made some good points, but I just couldn’t get involved enough to will myself to sit down and finish it. I got about 2/3 of the way there though and picked up some interesting analysis along the way.
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I watched a video on YouTube the other day that sparked some interesting online debate.  A man finds himself in a white room in which he is forced to make a decision.  Either he takes a key and leaves the room never to return.  Or he takes he pushes a button and gets 10 million […]

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