“I have been meaning to write to you for some time, and the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war provides as good an occasion as any to do so. Distracted by other, more recent eruptions of violence, the country has all but forgotten the war. But I won’t and I expect you can’t, although our reasons for remembering may differ.”

--Andrew Bacevich, letter to Paul Wolfowitz, Harper’s magazine, March 2012

Dumb question: Why have the…

Having a conversation, either on line or face to face, with a Christian is something all of us have endured. Just out of curiosity, can anybody point to an incident where they accomplished anything by doing so? I know I can’t, but maybe some of you have a higher tolerance for fools than me.

So why talk to them? Perhaps you are afraid that by not responding you concede the argument and they win by default. This appears to have merit until you examine the idea closer. The premise is you…

“…the name Vietnam…arrived…as a summary and combination of everything one had ever learned…about the horrors of war.  There was something profoundly, horribly shocking in the odds and the proportions of the thing.  To all appearances, it seemed as if a military-industrial superpower was employing a terrifying aerial bombardment of steel and explosives and chemicals to subdue a defiant agrarian society.  I had expected the newly-elected Labour government to withhold British…

http://www.linktv.org/programs/ray-mcgovern-israel-and-iran
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and the decoy or straight bigot haze:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/08/3040098/proposed-amendment-stirs-school.html

In memory w/respect:



http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Doherty_9-13-12.html



Ex-SEAL, online gaming maven among Benghazi dead



Thursday, September 13, 2012



Selected Article Excerpts:



Details began to emerge Thursday about some of the three Americans who died in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi with Ambassador Chris…

Suppressed no more. Actual history of Spain Civil (uprisings) Wars...

Ah the old smoke and mirrors through faith-fronting-corporate offshore stuff has never been so clear aye?

Pennsylvania legislators recently adopted a resolution that among other things encourages Pennsylvanians to study the tenets of the Bible and says there is a "national need to study and apply scripture." The Freedom from Religion Foundation filed suit charging that the resolution violates the "separation of church and state."…

(Excerpt from a blog post about my childhood)

M*A*S*H: The Communist Leftist Threat to American Democracy

One evening, I cannot remember how, I was sitting upstairs and the conversation went to television.  Then somehow I ended up…

Disclaimer: This is my first blog a so I begin by apologizing for all the rules of blogging that I will break.  Actually I'm not going to apologize for breaking the rules (for if they were important they would have been written down in a place where I would have read them . I am going to apologize for offending you. Hmmm...perhaps not; for insult is taken. never given and I…

http://natehevens.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/%E2%80%9Ccommemorating%E2%80%9D-911/

I posted this on my Wordpress blog. You are welcome to comment here, but I would be much more appreciative if you commented on the blog itself at Wordpress.

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When it comes to morals it seems that Christians never get above the belt-buckle unless it is to peer behind a brassiere. Genes for sexual obsession passed down from the Catholic Church evidently have not mutated over the centuries as Christian leaders remain overly concerned with who's doing who, how they are doing it and if there are any naked people or pictures anywhere near.

To be sure there is a need for watchdog organizations and laws keeping dangerous sexual predators, perverts…

Many people say, “There are no atheists in foxholes.” As a practical matter this obviously isn’t the case, but the Army’s new Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program (CSFP)…

The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on "A Chaplain and an Atheist Go To War". Interesting to read how the Chaplain feels free to

put himself and others at risk because he believes his god will protect

him from Taliban bullets. Love the quote, "He trusts God to keep him

safe," says RP2 Chute. "And I'm here just in case that doesn't work out."…