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Ernest Partridge: Touch Football & Television
Monday, 30 April 2007, 2:24 pm | Ernest Partridge
I belong to the last generation to experience childhood without television. And I have often wondered what was lost when the children of that generation deserted the playgrounds and moved inside to watch the tube. More >>
Ernest Partridge: “Do You Believe in God?”
Thursday, 12 April 2007, 3:42 pm | Ernest Partridge
According to a recent Newsweek Poll, 91% replied to this question in the affirmative. But did any of the thousand individuals polled pause to ask: “Just what do you mean by ‘God’?” More >>
V. Plame & The Incredible Shrinking Cover Story
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 2:33 pm | Ernest Partridge
That appears to be the essence of the Bush loyalist’s rebuttal to Valerie Plame Wilson’s testimony to Henry Waxman's Committee hearing. That this account is a flat-out contradiction is of concern only to elite nit-picking liberals and not to ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: Oh What a Lovely (Cold) War!
Thursday, 8 March 2007, 3:29 pm | Ernest Partridge
On February 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin startled the Munich Conference on Security Policy with a speech that was strongly critical of United States foreign and military policy. The speech drew an immediate and harsh reaction from the U.S. ... More >>
The Malleable World of the Neo Cons.
Thursday, 22 February 2007, 2:04 pm | Ernest Partridge
With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States became the sole remaining super-power. Many saw this extraordinary situation as an opportunity at last for world disarmament, a concerted attack on poverty and disease, and global harmony ... More >>
Only Americans Can Restore America’s Honor
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 12:18 am | Ernest Partridge
In six short years, the Bush regime has transformed the United States from an exemplar of freedom, democracy and the rule of law, to a pariah and a threat to international law and order. A recent BBC poll of twenty-six countries has found that, by a plurality ... More >>
Mainstream Media to Bloggers: "Bug Off"
Friday, 19 January 2007, 11:17 am | Ernest Partridge
The internet has the mainstream journalists worried, and for good reason. As the establishment sees it, millions of pajama clad amateurs are sitting at home pounding their keyboards and then uploading their uninformed, unedited and unrefined streams ... More >>
Snobocracy: When 'The Right People' Run Washington
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 1:00 pm | Ernest Partridge
Two days before the August 8 Connecticut primary, Corinne Boggs “Cokie” Roberts reflected on ABC’s “This Week” that it would be "a disaster for the Democratic Party" if Joseph Lieberman were to lose that primary election to Ned Lamont. "I think”, ... More >>
Public Interest & The Limits of Volunteerism
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:39 am | Ernest Partridge
Libertarians often tell us that personal voluntary restraint and charitable contributions are morally preferable solutions to social problems than government coercion and taxation. Ronald Reagan probably had this in mind when he said in his first inaugural ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: And Now What?
Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 8:42 pm | Ernest Partridge
In July, 2005 I wrote that “ The GOP is Certain to Win in 2006, Unless...” “Unless,” that is, some extraordinary event intervenes; such as economic collapse, exposure of the election frauds of 2000, 2002 and 2004 complete with indictments and convictions, ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: A Gathering Storm
Friday, 29 September 2006, 8:59 am | Ernest Partridge
Early last August, I wrote that “The Democrats, believing they have an excellent chance to reclaim one or even both houses of Congress, are almost certainly heading for another huge disappointment in November.” While I am only slightly less certain ... More >>
The Scorpion, The Frog, And The Corporation
Thursday, 14 September 2006, 11:21 am | Ernest Partridge
A scorpion, eager to get to the other side of a stream and unable to swim, pleads with a frog to allow him to ride on the frog’s back, across the stream. “Certainly not,” said the frog. “You would kill me.” More >>
Ernest Partridge: A New Coalition?
Friday, 11 August 2006, 3:03 pm | Ernest Partridge
The Democrats, believing they have an excellent chance to reclaim one or even both houses of Congress, are almost certainly heading for another huge disappointment in November. More >>
What About the Russians? Personal Encounters
Friday, 30 June 2006, 12:13 am | Ernest Partridge
Along with all Americans, save the generation now in high-school and younger, I grew up and lived under the shadow of the Cold War, and behind it the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation. We all remember it well. More >>
Ernest Partridge: Where Are Our Heroes Today?
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 3:55 pm | Ernest Partridge
It is impossible to fully appreciate the enormity of the crimes of the Bush Administration. Among them: That regime has initiated a war against an unthreatening nation, has caused the death tens of thousands of innocent civilians, has abrogated numerous ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: Debunking the Debunker
Thursday, 8 June 2006, 2:24 pm | Ernest Partridge
Complication of the election integrity issue works to the advantage of the status quo; which is to say, the increasing use of paperless, unauditable Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines. More complications abound as critics of the status ... More >>
Ernest Partridge: Swords Into Plowshares
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 12:15 am | Ernest Partridge
An analysis of the events that have followed the fall of the Soviet Union fifteen years ago, leads to a tragic conclusion: The United States economy, as currently constituted, cannot maintain itself without an international enemy. More >>
Ernest Partridge: Eyes On The Prize
Monday, 29 May 2006, 10:26 am | Ernest Partridge
Among the thousands of internet and media articles that I have read during the three and a half years of co-editing The Crisis Papers, one passage stands out in my mind as especially repugnant: More >>
Ernest Partridge: A Perfect Storm
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 11:40 am | Ernest Partridge
“A perfect storm” occurs when several weather conditions – for example, a low pressure area, a cold front, a diversion of the jet stream -- each significant by itself, converge and combine at a particular time and place, with catastrophic results. More >>
Ernest Partridge: An Appearance of Guilt
Thursday, 9 March 2006, 11:15 am | Ernest Partridge
The accumulated weight of evidence of election fraud – statistical, circumstantial, and anecdotal – has failed to move the mainstream media to report or investigate this evidence, or the Democratic party to acknowledge and protest the apparent Republican ... More >>
