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80's Night at the TNGOP

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Posted on August 15, 2008 - 9:15am at Nashville21
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Just as Flying Saucer had their 80's night yesterday, so William Howard Hobbs with the TN Republican party thinks its the 1980s all over again, John McCain is Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama is Mondale/Dukakis/Carter/McGover, and Putin is...Chernenko?

Quote of the Day

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Posted on August 13, 2008 - 9:55am at Nashville21
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"Russia is no longer the Soviet Union. You'd think conservatives would understand this distinction. There is a difference between totalitarian states seeking world expansion and authoritarian petro-states in demographic collapse bullying its neighboring states because of perceived humiliations.

Look: every Republican wants to be Churchill. But this is not 1938.

Peace in our time

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Posted on August 10, 2008 - 8:33am at bob krumm
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Nineteen years after Germany’s loss of the First World War, the defeated European nation reasserted itself in Czechoslovakia. European powers, tired of war, forced the Czechs to cede the German-speaking Sudetenland to Hitler.

Nineteen years ago the Soviet Union was defeated in Eastern Europe . . .

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, R.I.P.

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Posted on August 4, 2008 - 11:48pm at A Disgruntled Republican
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By the Editors, August 04, 2008, 4:00 a.m, National Review Online

When 1999 turned into 2000, a lot of people asked, “Who was the Man of the Century?” And many answered, “Solzhenitsyn.” That was a very solid choice.

On Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Posted on August 3, 2008 - 5:52pm at Chez Bez
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Obama certainly is the candidate of change

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Posted on July 5, 2008 - 10:08am at A Disgruntled Republican
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Obama Should Take A Better Look At The History He Speaks Of

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Posted on May 22, 2008 - 10:28am at Tennessee Free
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In this post, the author brilliantly contrasted Barack Obama’s proposed talks with Iran to those put forth by Defense Secretary Gates, by comparing what Gates was proposing to what Reagan did with the Soviet Union from a position of strength. He also compared Obama’s suggestion with how Kennedy met with Krushchev from a position of [...]

Bush hypocrisy on "talking with terrorists"

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Posted on May 16, 2008 - 10:51am at Loose TN Cannon
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Bush in Israel compared talking with terrorists with appeasing Nazis; asserting that any progress from such negotiations would be a "foolish delusion." Ironic...

Mutiny: David Hagberg and Boris Gindin

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Posted on May 15, 2008 - 10:00am at Terry Frank
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Today on the radio we’ll interview David Hagberg and Boris Gindin.  Mr. Hagberg has spent three decades studying the Soviet Union–their government, military, secret intelligence services, and more.

Democracy Will Not Save You

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Posted on May 8, 2008 - 8:36am at Post Politics
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It won’t make you whole. Katie Allison Granju reports on the correlation between happiness and one’s form of political government:

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