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What Passes for Rationality in the Modern World

Posted on September 16, 2015 by johnrachel

Who in their right mind would come up with MAD __ mutual assured destruction __ then destabilize it with policies which replace its precarious, paranoid, hair-trigger brinkmanship with more confrontation and a renewed arms race? Continue reading →

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Justin Bieber is the new Hitler!

Posted on July 15, 2015 by johnrachel

If someone in the State Department or the White House decides that Justin Bieber’s music truly sucks, or even if they just take a disliking to that froofy, pseudo-pompadour hair style he alternates with his Beetle boy look, you can be assured of the headline the next day, front page of the New York Times: Justin Bieber is the new Hitler! Continue reading →

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Bulging Waste Line

Posted on May 28, 2015 by johnrachel

What follows here is not an argument for reducing government. It is evidence that we need …
Good government. Smart government. Honest government. Visionary government. Representative government. I am focusing on profligate defense spending and pursuit of unnecessary war. Continue reading →

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Hillary’s Secret Campaign Strategy

Posted on November 28, 2014 by johnrachel

Hillary Clinton has a secret plan for winning the presidential election in 2016. Continue reading →

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Creativity: The Writing Process

Posted on November 7, 2014 by johnrachel

With my brand new book, The Man Who Loved Too Much, Book 1: Archipelago __ my sixth novel! __ arriving this month, people sometimes ask me: “John, how do you get inspired to write?” Continue reading →

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Irony Deficiency Anemia

Posted on August 21, 2014 by johnrachel

Irony can be mildly amusing or horribly grating. The inability of our political leaders to appreciate the self-sabotaging irony of their misguided policies will ultimately destroy America as we know it. Continue reading →

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This Is War

Posted on August 11, 2014 by johnrachel

War is bloody, slimy, foul, sickening, noxious, nauseating, horrifying, debilitating, degrading, disgusting, appalling, and often lethal. If it doesn’t kill you, it will change you permanently, and not for the better. But don’t tell anyone. Continue reading →

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Real News

Posted on October 21, 2013 by johnrachel

Wonder what you may have missed for the three weeks that the soap opera of the shutdown and debt ceiling crisis monopolized the news? Here are some clues. This is only a start but perhaps offers some perspective. Continue reading →

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Spreading The Love

Posted on November 30, 2012 by johnrachel

TPP is being promoted by a public relations campaign using our public officials as spokespersons for the transnational corporate elite who are promoting this onerous, ill-conceived weapon of economic destruction.

Don’t be fooled by this self-serving and bogus propaganda. Continue reading →

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We are doomed! And now on an even more pessimistic note . . .

Posted on July 20, 2011 by johnrachel

We can circle the wagons but remember THEY own the wagons. Continue reading →

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