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Total number of comments: 3 (since 2013-11-28 16:53:38)

jwpegler

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  • Top Five Myths about the Middle East Protests
    • jwpegler 02/20/2011 at 1:02 pm with 1 replies

      The common thread running across all of these countries is that their populations are young. They are restless. They are also on social media and understand more about the outside world than ever before.

      Having direct contact with free people in North America and Europe is a catalyst for all of this. The neo-commies (ex-leftists who call themselves "neo-cons") have it wrong. The young people in the middle east don't hate our freedom. They envy it. They see the freedom that we have and it causes them to be furious with their own governments for denying it to them.

      This is why cutting off trade and restricting travel is exactly the wrong policy when dealing with tyrants. We need to encourage more contact between Westerners and the oppressed peoples of the world. This includes Cuba. Once they see what we have, they won't stay silent any longer.

  • End Federal Tax Subsidies to Fox!
    • jwpegler 10/22/2010 at 1:20 pm with 6 replies

      This has to be the lamest thing I've ever read.

      Fox doesn't receive any different tax treatment than your buddies at MSBNC or CNN. None of these companies get government subsidies like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

      The fact is that when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created, there were 3 national broadcast television networks, plus local radio stations. Now we have hundreds of cable television channels, digital satellite radio, digital terrestrial radio, and literally hundreds of thousands of internet radio, television, and print sites globally. We can get any type of news we want, any time we want, from any source we want, across the entire world.

      It is absolutely ridiculous that we are forced to pay for something that is not needed and quite frankly unwanted by half of the population. This is not the old Soviet Union and we don't need a Prava.

      If you like NPR, fine. You can voluntarily contribute your own money. Oh yes, your contribution is tax deductible, which using your twisted logic also robs the government of "their" funds.

      Jefferson was 100% correct when he said: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical."

      We should cut off funding to NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting immediately.

  • Bolton was Contradicted by Bush on Iran's Bushehr Reactor
    • jwpegler 08/20/2010 at 4:14 pm

      Bolton is a neo-commie war monger. Why anyone listens to him is beyond comprehension.

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