Roman Empire Blog
Blog URL http://www.roman-empire-america-now.com/Roman-Empire-blog.html
Located Clinton Corners, New York USA
Commentary on US and world politics with an eye to parallels with the Roman Empire and its fall. Added to several times weekly.
Latest Blog Posts
- Nov 23, Americans Would Rather Kill than Cure on Nov 23, 2009
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- Nov 20, Obama's Afghan Anticorruption Drive a Fraud on Nov 20, 2009
How can Obama not know that the US pays for safe passage and government cooperation in Afghanistan? He also has to know that Karzai's own brother is one of the biggest grafters. So, what is this BS that the Karzai government has to "clean up its act...
- Nov 18, Maybe We Need A Revolution on Nov 18, 2009
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- Nov 12, Obama's Veterans Day Walk on Nov 12, 2009
President Obama walked among the fallen, today. He walked, alone, among the graves of the troops who had fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the two ongoing wars he has inherited. He didn't just go in and go out; he spent ten minutes there, walking...
- Nov 11, Dodd's Change You Can Believe In on Nov 11, 2009
Senator Dodd has shown rare courage. He seems willing, as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, to go head to head with the industry he oversees. Compare him to fellow Chairman, Baucus, who tried for months to compromise health care away, and fi...
- Nov 10, Afghanistan Again! on Nov 10, 2009
People who know the situation on the ground in Afghanistan insist: more troops will simply fuel the insurgency. Yet, that's the only course considered by President Obama. The course may have been set when Obama appointed General Petraeus for theater...
- Nov 4, Bad Things Happen on Nov 4, 2009
Voters do stupid things, sometimes, like return Republicans to the majority because Democrats in the County Legislature were unable to stop the Republican executive from raising taxes: the Republican minority sustained his vetoes. The Republicans mad...
