RS Paxton

• Burn ‘em at the Stake, All of ‘em.

  While there are those ready to burn the scientists at East Anglia at the stake, I’m not ready to light the match, at least not yet. I have a little problem with accusing and burning Academia at the stake and that’s what’s going to happen, regardless of what the facts [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 11:03am EST
  

• Revolution! in America?

  What has tenderized by passion is simply an understanding that Government actually has a role to play in our lives and that any change in our Government has to be for the betterment of the people. One of those roles is to be a fulcrum between the individual and institutions [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:24am EST
  

• Big Tents with no one Home

  Where the Republicans are now small and specific, and that means they can’t get anything done, the Democrats are now too broad based and generic to get anything done. This does not bode well for you and I, but it might be good news for Ron Paul, and I’ll have [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:12am EST
  

• A Wonderful Reality

  Finally, my point. We struggle too hard to maintain a reality, a way of life, that we can change in a heartbeat, not only from the perspective of the individual, but from the collective as a whole. I will do better. I will give you a real world example. [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:10pm EST
  

• Long Ago and Far Away

  I remember these people. Pia, Clay, Zuannah, Tom, Jeannie, Jean, Marci. The one person I can’t reconcile with in that class, is the picture of myself. A young innocent frozen in time. A child on the verge of manhood, about to make a million, billion mistakes. I find myself wanting [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:07am EST
  

• Really Scary Stuff

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  Sometimes, I just wish I could disappear into thin air because I can’t handle all this scary shit. I mean pretty soon, they ain’t even going to be any white people left. And come on, admit it, we all know the truth, if you’re not [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 9:16am EDT
  

• An Observation or Three

  Let’s see, I die, my boss gets the Insurance payoff, my family nothing. [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 3:08pm EDT
  

• Democracy?

  That defense ticks me off because you’re either really rich or you’re frigging ignorant. Chances are you’re ignorant because let me explain a little thing about power and money. There’s not a huge surplus of either, at least not big enough for everyone in our Nation to have a lot [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 9:44am EDT
  

• Heaven ain’t the End Game

  The waitress made her way and refilled their cups, both gentlemen mouthing a ‘thank you’ with a slight nod of the head. “See, the thing is, I don’t write names down in the book of life, no one does. Truth is, everyone’s given the benefit of the doubt at the [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2009, 9:43am EDT
  

• Never a Perfect Notion

  Understand what I am saying here! These are not conservatives, they are not Republicans no matter their claims. They certainly are not Patriotic Americans for their vision of our nation is one of fear and intolerance. They are the new neo-conservatives who like Hitler’s brown shirts in his rise to [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 9:41am EDT
  

• Real America

  America is a dream. A great experiment in Democracy. This is an experiment still in progress and that is why, two hundred plus years later we have a black President. This is so, because the path to a more perfect union, is based in equality and this seems to be [...]
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  Posted: August 16, 2009, 10:17am EDT
  

• The Uncomfortability of Race

  Living in the states for the last thirty years and raising my kids in an almost all white community, I’ve seen things change. People and attitudes for the most part, but discomfort with another Race still exists and I don’t equate that with racism. Neither is fear, stupidity or insensitivity, [...]
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  Posted: August 02, 2009, 9:38am EDT
  

• The Accession of this Beast! Part 3

  Nothing has essentially changed since the early 20th century, or in the last hundred years since the modern era of medicine began. From day one, costs have escalated due to new technology, research, new medicines, ongoing construction, specialized services, and from the need to turn a profit. This is the [...]
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  Posted: July 12, 2009, 10:43am EDT
  

• The Accession of this Beast, Pt. 2

  Commercial Insurance companies up to this time believed there was no profit to be made in insuring the sick. With the start of the Forties and the winds of war sweeping the Nation, our government issued price and wage controls, but failed to realize the need to control fringe benefits. [...]
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  Posted: July 05, 2009, 9:27am EDT
  

• The Accession of this Beast

  The beast that has risen, wrapped in the words of the Hippocratic Oath, is complex and multi faced. And powerful, to the extent that the industry is capable of spending a cool 1.4 million a day to fight reform. [...]
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  Posted: July 05, 2009, 9:25am EDT
  

• Rights and Your Privileges

  After your right to breath, everything else is a privilege and I could even argue, that there are some people who don’t have the right to waste precious oxygen. So, let’s make it easy and throw the entire concept of rights, out the window. Let’s be honest, there are no [...]
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  Posted: June 21, 2009, 7:38am EDT
  

• Shhhh, Sweet one...

  it’s time to lie your head down and go to sleep and as you start to drift off, I want you to think about what I’m going to tell you. Can you do that, ...think? Because to understand, you will need to think and to think, you must pass through [...]
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  Posted: June 07, 2009, 5:55pm EDT
  

• Our Tortured World

  Torture has always been with us humans and perhaps that fact alone speaks volumes about us as a species. We can’t hide from that fact and we can’t hide from that truth no matter how we color it, how we spin it. [...]
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  Posted: May 17, 2009, 9:54am EDT
  

• The Great Divide

  With that said, there’s a horrifying new trend afoot that transcends ‘politics as usual’ that in it’s essence, is completely abusive and divisive politically, socially, culturally, religiously and as a result, it threatens to quickly become regional. [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2009, 10:45am EDT
  

• The Responsibility of Free Speech.

  Where is the difference between yelling fire in a crowded room or in a video snippet that you hope will go viral. Isn’t it the expectation of the authors, of both examples to illicit action of some sort, for their personal motivation? [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2009, 7:32am EDT
  

• ...and Equality for All.

  Without Unions, our quality of life would be dependent upon the generosity of our employer which is the same thing as saying, we’d have little input into our own existence. [...]
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  Posted: April 04, 2009, 9:49am EDT
  

• Check out the new forums

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  Posted: March 28, 2009, 9:47am EDT
  

• There is a Thread.

  Is it believable that our greatest fear is to be forgotten? That after our lives have ran their course, traveled well past our children and theirs, that our names, our deeds, our possessions and their worth, are nothing. That all that we are, will be captured by a bleached tombstone, [...]
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  Posted: March 28, 2009, 9:44am EDT
  

• The Pig of our Discontent

  Truth is the pig has been maligned throughout history as a vile animal to the extent that we even use it in derogatory terms to define ‘special’ characteristics of certain people or groups of people. Like, ‘those guys at AIG are pigs’. [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2009, 1:35pm EDT
  

• The Long Hard Truth of the Matter

  There are those who believe that power is a physical commodity in finite terms. That when a opponent loses power, there is gain to be made in their own commodity. As in all material pursuits, human behavior is often guided by greed, and power as a commodity lives and breaths [...]
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  Fetched: October 12, 2008, 11:19am EDT
  

• America's First Citizen

  Our Governments intent is to give Wall Street a trillion dollars and they, Wall Street, will solve all the problems of our Nation. After all, they are Americas First Citizen. [...]
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  Fetched: September 28, 2008, 12:14pm EDT
  

• The Glory of Compassionate Conservatism

  The whole concept of this philosophy is based on the belief that man is lazy, sinful and wants everything for nothing and because of that fact they dont have one iota of responsibility for your welfare, no matter the circumstances. [...]
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  Fetched: September 07, 2008, 8:49am EDT
  

• The American Soul

  Is it plausible to believe that our Nation comprised of immigrants from every corner of the planet, has a unified soul? A soul that is greater than our individual heritage, greater than our individual religious beliefs and moral compasses and if so, what are our individual sacrifices to insure the [...]
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  Fetched: August 17, 2008, 11:45am EDT
  

• The Beast in our Garden

  Imagine a world where the food supply is controlled by a single entity much like OPEC. A world where food and dairy products are genetically modified without care and thought given to their impact on your health. A world where all farmers are mandated to use specific seeds and herbicides [...]
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  Fetched: August 17, 2008, 11:45am EDT
  

• An Unseen Thread

  I am wondering if that is possible though, if the divide is too great to be healed. There is a feeling I have, like there is an unseen thread weaving all the issues together forging a path toward an unknown future. [...]
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  Fetched: August 17, 2008, 11:45am EDT
  

• Not About Oil, Right?

  No sensible thinking person can believe the state of our American economy is based upon the result of the sub prime mess alone. The cost of the war is having a huge impact here at home and add in our banking crisis, the future is quite bleak [...]
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  Fetched: August 17, 2008, 11:45am EDT
  

• The Beast in our Garden

  Imagine a world where the food supply is controlled by a single entity much like OPEC. A world where food and dairy products are genetically modified without care and thought given to their impact on your health. A world where all farmers are mandated to use specific seeds and herbicides [...]
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  Fetched: May 25, 2008, 11:45am EDT
  

• An Unseen Thread

  I am wondering if that is possible though, if the divide is too great to be healed. There is a feeling I have, like there is an unseen thread weaving all the issues together forging a path toward an unknown future. [...]
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  Fetched: May 18, 2008, 8:43am EDT
  

• Not About Oil, Right?

  No sensible thinking person can believe the state of our American economy is based upon the result of the sub prime mess alone. The cost of the war is having a huge impact here at home and add in our banking crisis, the future is quite bleak [...]
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  Fetched: May 03, 2008, 11:47am EDT
  

• Economics of the Human Condition

  There is a larger, much more evident truth in our National Economy and its worthy of considerable attention. It is what I call the human condition. Where the economy is an ethereal, but living influence on all of us, the human condition can tear it apart, supplant it, corrupt it, [...]
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  Fetched: April 26, 2008, 12:47pm EDT
  

• My American Media

  At this point, one is probably thinking something along the line that Im writing about everyone else, but Ive got news for you. Youre included! While you might admit you are influenced by our media, you would never admit to just how much. You would never admit to the loss [...]
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  Fetched: April 26, 2008, 12:47pm EDT
  

• The Political Genius of the Species

  Our sons and daughters are dying in the heat of foreign desert and here at home, we, their parents, are losing our grip on the once vaulted American dream. There is no longer a need to verify with a multitude of facts that our Economy is in decline, that our [...]
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  Fetched: April 23, 2008, 3:35pm EDT
  

• Our Trying Times

  There is a thought on my part that we as a society and culture have traveled past the point of no return. That American intelligence and innovation are definitions of our past. It is as if a great evil has crept into our collective and individual souls, blinding us to [...]
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  Fetched: April 23, 2008, 3:35pm EDT
  

• My American Media.

  At this point, one is probably thinking something along the line that Im writing about everyone else, but Ive got news for you. Youre included! While you might admit you are influenced by our media, you would never admit to just how much. You would never admit to the loss [...]
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  Fetched: April 23, 2008, 3:35pm EDT