An Edsel, Not an Empire by Taki
Saddam was a threat to Iraq, not to Uncle Sam. Not even to Israel, as it turns out, but try to say this to the Israeli Lobby. As Frank Johnson wrote in the London Spectator, the neocons have been making mischief for more than a hundred years. He compares the present motley cabal of Wolfowitzes and Feiths to Lord Milner, the governor of the British Cape Colony in South Africa.
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Congress called unready for terror by FRANK DAVIES
''In the event of a disaster that debilitated Congress, the vacuum could be filled by unilateral executive action -- perhaps a benign form of martial law''.
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Yankee Wars by Clyde Wilson
Why should anyone be surprised at the prisoner tortures carried on by the U.S. armed forces in Iraq? Given the low quality of our national leaders and the amoral atmosphere of the forces, only an imperviously smug belief in American exemption from human evil could blind anyone to the likelihood of such.
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Mark Dankof to Michael Peroutka: Your Fortunes and The Trinity Strategy
On May 22nd in Pasadena, Maryland, Mark Dankof spent an hour with Constitution Party Presidential Candidate Michael Peroutka and the delegates to the Maryland State Constitution Party Convention. His topic? The Trinity Strategy as the key to lapping Ralph Nader and the Libertarians while tripping George W. Bush in November.

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Why Ashcroft Must Go by Justin Raimondo
The new totalitarians speak the language of "democracy," liberality, and modernity: they pose as the champions of Western civilization against an encroaching barbarism, and claim that their goal is to "liberate" the earth, starting with the Middle East. It's a bald-faced lie.
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Abu Ghraib Abuses Fuel Campaign for International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC), which had receded into the shadows over the past few years, may soon be back in the limelight, propelled by sensational stories and photos indicating that some U.S. military personnel and civilian contractors grossly abused prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.
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Ben Boyce, Jr.: A Poster Boy for American Historical Memory and the Constitution Party's First Couple
At the Maryland Constitution Party's State Convention on May 22nd, favorite son Michael Peroutka was proclaimed as the choice of his fellow Marylanders to receive the Party's national nomination in June at Valley Forge as the next President of the United States. The Maryland conclave was treated to lectures and exhortations by inveterate American Right columnists and activists Franklin Sanders (The Moneychanger) and Mark Dankof.

But the highlight of the tribute and sendoff for Presidential First Couple Michael and Diane Peroutka and their campaign theme of "God, Family, Republic," was the poetic and historical treat proffered to the faithful by a little boy named Ben Boyce, Jr. in the nine stanza recitation of the lyrics of Maryland State Song, "Maryland, My Maryland."

The flawless presentation of the young lad's memorized lyrics will accompany Mr. Peroutka's formal acceptance of the Presidential nomination of his Constitution Party at the Valley Forge Convention Center in June. The poignant words underscore what Michael and Diane Peroutka and the readers of American Memory already know: that the deliberate committal of American history, the Constitution, and Scripture to the individual and collective memory remind us of who we were as a People--and what we can yet be again under the direction of a sovereign and purposeful God.

by James Ryder Randall (1861)


Maryland, My Maryland

I
The despot's heel is on thy shore,
Maryland!
His torch is at thy temple door,

Maryland!
Avenge the patriotic gore
That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle queen of yore,
Maryland! My Maryland!

II
Hark to an exiled son's appeal,
Maryland!
My Mother State! to thee I kneel,

Maryland!
For life or death, for woe or weal,
Thy peerless chivalry reveal,
And gird they beauteous limbs with steel,
Maryland! My Maryland!

III
Thou wilt not cower in the dust,
Maryland!
Thy beaming sword shall never rust,

Maryland!
Remember Carroll's sacred trust,
Remember Howard's warlike thrust,-
And all thy slumberers with the just,
Maryland! My Maryland!

IV
Come! 'tis the red dawn of the day,
Maryland!
Come with thy panoplied array,

Maryland!
With Ringgold's spirit for the fray,
With Watson's blood at Monterey,
With fearless Lowe and dashing May,
Maryland! My Maryland!

V
Come! for thy shield is bright and strong,
Maryland!
Come! for thy dalliance does thee wrong,

Maryland!
Come to thine own anointed throng,
Stalking with Liberty along,
And sing thy dauntless slogan song,
Maryland! My Maryland!

VI
Dear Mother! burst the tyrant's chain,
Maryland!
Virginia should not call in vain,

Maryland!
She meets her sisters on the plain-
Sic semper! 'tis the proud refrain
That baffles minions back amain,

Maryland!
Arise in majesty again,
Maryland! My Maryland!

VII
I see the blush upon thy cheek,
Maryland!
For thou wast ever bravely meek,

Maryland!
But lo! there surges forth a shriek,
From hill to hill, from creek to creek,
Potomac calls to Chesapeake,
Maryland! My Maryland!

VIII
Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll,

Maryland!
Thou wilt not crook to his control,

Maryland!
Better the fire upon thee roll, Better the shot, the blade, the bowl,
Than crucifixion of the Soul,
Maryland! My Maryland!

IX
I hear the distant thunder-hum,

Maryland!
The Old Line bugle, fife, and drum,

Maryland!
She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb-
Huzza! She spurns the Northern scum!
She breathes! She burns! She'll come! She'll come!

Maryland! My Maryland!
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Noam Chomsky Interview
"BBC" If George Bush were to be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunals, he'd be hanged. So too, mind you, would every single American President since the end of the second world war, including Jimmy Carter.

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Rush Limbaugh and Private England: The Odd Couple by Gary North
Nobody likes being made a fool in public, and Private England has made fools of millions of Republican stalwarts. When the party faithful stay home, swing voters will decide the outcome of an election this close. This is bad news for Republicans.


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Founding Fathers’ Assets at Risk from Proposed UK Treaty
"Under the new treaty, as drafted, an extradition request from the British government could be received on one day and a target, regardless of citizenship or the merits of the extradition request, could be forcibly placed on a plane and deposited with the British security forces the very next day".
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Pre-empting the Bill of Rights by ELAINE CASSEL
Some Americans are a little more aware of what our government is doing to us, some congressmen and women are a little concerned, and a few judges are taking names and making notes. Would anything be different under John Kerry's rule? I doubt it.
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One War Is Enough by EDGAR L. JONES
“We are going to fight any international ruffian who attempts to impose his will on the world by force.”
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Meet the 'Jackass' Generation by R. Cort Kirkwood
If anything proves the enemies of traditional American culture are ascendant, it's the photos of American soldiers torturing Iraqi captives at Abu Ghraib prison. We have met the MTV-Feminist generation.


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Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood . . . by James Ostrowski
The other guy is mentioned in my book because mine is the story of how I have been fighting the Buffalo political machine for 28 years; the other guy was part of that very same machine.

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An Infamous Ruling by Paul Craig Roberts
Brown’s true legacy is rule by judges, the destruction of equality before the law, the replacement of persuasion with coercion, the end of freedom of conscience, and the rise of insatiable racial grievances.
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Inherent National Bankruptcy by Jim Carter
People still do not know what is going to hit them when Congress tells the Fed they cannot pay the interest on the national debt. Deficit spending to pay for the interest is now sold to the public as the cost of a war. How long can the illusion be maintained? How long can the inflation resulting from deficit spending to pay the interest be concealed from the public?
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Totalitarian Democracy: a New Poem by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

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Big Brother to Watch Over Island
If you have ever seen the cult '60s British television program The Prisoner, in which captured Cold War spies live on an island under constant surveillance, you can imagine what life may soon be like on Ayers Island, on the Penobscot River near the University of Maine.


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A Prison State, If Not a Police State by Paul Craig Roberts
The US, "the land of the free," has the biggest prison population in the world and the highest rate of prisoners per capita of all countries – including countries that President Bush believes need liberating by US armed forces.


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Today's conspiracy, tomorrow's truth by Jerry Mazza
Do you, do any of us, have the conscience, courage and passion to follow those leads to the true criminals—without obsessing that we're being had? God knows Americans have been had and lied to by those who have ruled (and rule) since Tom Jefferson blew the first whistle. And God knows that's why we have to blow it when we know it.
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The president's unchecked power
We are living in a time of ill-defined, undeclared war, where some freedoms may have to be sacrificed to ensure collective security. But these uncertain times make it even more urgent that the government be forced to defend or justify accusations for which it has imprisoned U.S. citizens and stripped them of sacred constitutional rights.


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A Modest Proposal by Ralph Raico
Consider the situation the neocons in charge of U. S. policy have created. They have an outright halfwit – the dirt-dumbest man ever to get even close to being president – under their thumb. They’ve convinced him that his lunatic ‘religious’ beliefs mandate a never-ending American crusade to rid the world of evil. In particular, that means to attack, bomb, and invade any country on earth they care to target, to bring them whatever the hell they mean by ‘democracy.’
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