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Starship Troopers and US Elections

Starship Troopers and US Elections

Posted by | Oct 30, 2012 | , , |

  Robert Heinlein wrote the controversial Starship Troopers in 1959 at the height of the Cold War. The novel’s action centers around a war of survival between mankind and an extraterrestrial bug-like species bent on galactic conquest. What set this novel apart from other Sci-Fi genre novels was the underlying moral and political lessons Heinlein was teaching. These lessons are as fresh today as they were when we faced the threat of nuclear annihilation. And like much of Science Fiction, Starship Troopers is a cautiously optimistic novel. The central theme of Starship Troopers was what it meant to be...

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Ships and Bayonets

Ships and Bayonets

Posted by | Oct 23, 2012 | , , |

  “Governor Romney maybe hasn’t spent enough time looking at how our military works. You — you mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets — because the nature of our military’s changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.” President Obama at the 3rd Presidential debate.   As opposed to the President, I have spent a lot of time looking at how our military looks. I served...

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Game Over

Game Over

Posted by | Sep 26, 2012 | , |

  The unmitigated disaster which was Monday Night’s NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks is a metaphor of where we are and where we are potentially heading in the current political environment. The problem is not merely that the outcome of the game was decided by an absurdly incorrect call by the replacement referees, but that what should be decided by universally accepted rules of engagement is now being determined by the personal opinion of the judge who decides what the rules should be. When you review the video of the game-winning play, you...

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You have your traditions…we have ours.

You have your traditions…we have ours.

Posted by | Sep 22, 2012 | , , |

  We will bring down the lightning if you injure anyone who we hold dear.   We are currently watching the Muslim world catch fire with anti-American frenzy. This is not because of “crusader” aggression. It is not because YouTube has made available some video that hurt somebody’s feelings. It is because within those countries there exists a culture that respects power and a certain amount of ruthlessness and they know they can run riot without any repercussions. Not to put too fine a line on it, but they are doing it for the same reason that a dog...

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Lie to Me

Lie to Me

Posted by | Sep 20, 2012 | , |

  Like most adult Americans, I am not surprised when my government lies to me. It is what they do. I expect it. There are times when, in the words of the poet Col Nathan Jessup, “I can’t handle the truth.” I expect my government to lie to me about things that I am unable to process. Sometimes it is because the government’s business is so messy and complicated that we can’t understand why this industry needs a tax incentive, but that one doesn’t. Sometimes it is because we all need our government to do things that, as individuals,...

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