A Little Politics

Plan for Blogging

16 October 2011

Usually, I try not to blog just concepts or ideas because I want to do my research and present complete discussions. However, I watch these other people toss ideas out in the ether all the time and never seemingly follow-up. I do not want to do that, but I do want to get ideas out [...]

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DARPA Hypersonic Jet – Amiss?

11 August 2011

Let the chorus of nay-sayers begin…. DARPA has attempted to demonstrate a hypersonic aircraft that could set the foundation for building missiles able to fly at Mach 20. Looks like the test likely failed, so people will say that we should not do that kind of research. Of course, it is a failure, so there [...]

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On Human Nature

22 July 2011

We humans.. we are never happy, never satisfied. On the one hand, this is good, but on the other … a sad state of affairs. This past Thursday, the Mass reading was Exodus16:1-5. For those who are not religious, take pause and just read and think of this as a discourse on human nature. For [...]

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No Aristocracy Here

11 May 2011

Each day I receive an email from The Patriot Post (subscribe). Today’s post reminds me of some of the blogs I have written in the past. Blogs that decried the apparent belief by some, if not all, of our elected representatives that they are the modern aristocracy. They leave office with bank accounts chock-full of [...]

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Funding the Senator Scott Brown Campaign

29 March 2011

Below is my response to Senator Scott Brown’s request for a donation to his campaign fund. I wrote about donating to his campaign before and that I was proud to do so. I was vehemently against those who would call the Massachusetts seat the Kennedy seat or the Ted Kennedy seat. That is akin to [...]

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Huntington and the Arab Clashes

4 March 2011

Samuel Huntington wrote an article in Foreign Affairs and then a book entitled the same, “The Clash of Civilizations”. He wrote the article in 1993 as many political scientists, international relations people, historians, and others were trying to prognosticate about a world with a single super power. Mr. Huntington believed that the future conflicts would [...]

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Afghanistan Bound

4 February 2011

The last two weeks have been for my family. I have not blogged or spent as much time on the computer as usual because I am heading to Afghanistan. I have never specifically told my readers that I am a Soldier. I didn’t feel that my profession currently is important to what I had to [...]

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