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Redheaded Politics
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'Redheaded Politics' will attempt to be fair and balanced in it's critic of both the Left and the Right. My goal is to give a voice to the unwanted, "redheaded stepchild" that is individual liberty.
Recent Posts
Funding war; should the taxpayers pay?
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” –Thomas Jefferson Today President Obama will detail his plan for a new policy in Afghanistan — p...
Blackwater and the war on Pakistan
According to freelance journalist Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater security forces are operating within Pakistan. Scahill is a sort of expert on the mercenary outfit and its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2007, he wrote The New York Time’s best...
Fort Hood, fear mongering, infringement on civil liberties
The tragedy of Fort Hood, like Sept. 11, 2001, is being turned into another excuse to partake in anti-Muslim rhetoric and to call for the infringement on the civil liberties of Muslim Americans. So to, may the tragedy be used as a catalyst to infrin...
America and Iranian democracy; what you weren’t taught in school
“In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.” — President Barack Obama, June 4, 2009 To most Americans, the major political turning point in Iran is the 19...
Open immigration; a win-win situation?
“People are indeed the essential of commerce, and the more people the more trade; the more trade, the more money; the more money, the more strength; and the more strength, the greater the nation…All temporal felicities, I mean national, spring fr...
Audit the Fed bill passes House committee
Yesterday was a victory for what Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) described as a “Waterloo for Fed secrecy.” In a bipartisan vote of 43-26, the House Financial Services Committee voted in favor of an amendment to audit the Federal Reserve — somet...

