War

Iron Maiden vs. The American National Socialists

October 13, 2007 @ 10:02 pm

One of my favorite bands. A new video for their 1984 song, “2 Minutes to Midnight.” Check out the Wikipedia article on the song. Among other things it will help explain the title.

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Family Guy – "Democracy" in Iraq

June 6, 2007 @ 8:41 pm
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Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror

June 1, 2007 @ 3:37 pm

So says an article today in USA Today. Sad…to see writers of the future serving an organization that helps to insure it will be less free, more violent, and poorer. Here’s the intro paragraph: Looking to prevent the next terrorist attack, the Homeland Security Department is tapping into the wild imaginations of a group of [...]

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From The Onion: "God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule"

May 30, 2007 @ 11:36 am

“Look, I don’t know, maybe I haven’t made myself completely clear, so for the record, here it is again,” said the Lord, His divine face betraying visible emotion during a press conference near the site of the fallen Twin Towers. “Somehow, people keep coming up with the idea that I want them to kill their [...]

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The iRack: An Ingenious Double Parody

March 14, 2007 @ 6:17 pm
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Would you like to bomb Iran? A Tribute to Dr. Seuss

February 20, 2007 @ 5:33 pm
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Democracy, Spontaneous Order, and the Democratic Peace Thesis

December 7, 2005 @ 3:12 pm

Gus diZerega over at Liberty & Power has made a couple of posts arguing not only in favor on the democratic peace thesis (about which I have posted before; see here) but also, and far more incredibly, that democracies are spontaneous orders. See his posts here and here. I commented on the latter, offering a [...]

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Considerations on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of Rome

November 21, 2005 @ 9:24 pm

Below are links to three short reaction paper-type essays that I have written so far this semester for a seminar I am taking on Roman political philosophy. They are only my preliminary thoughts on the underlying causes of Rome’s rise and fall. A fourth short paper will follow in about a week and a half, [...]

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