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		<title>American Militarism: Part Two (Charles Krauthammer)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 20:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter C Uhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1990, thirteen years before President George W. Bush made his fateful decision to order an illegal, immoral war of choice in Iraq, prominent neoconservative columnist Charles Krauthammer had helped to pave the way for such wars by writing an article for Foreign Affairs which urged the United States to “unashamedly” lay “down the rules of world order and … [be] prepared to enforce them.”  His views were embraced by many influential neoconservatives.
In 2001, two years before President George W. Bush ordered an illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, Mr. Krauthammer blithely asserted, “we are not just any hegemon.   We run a uniquely benign imperium.”
But, once in Iraq, nearly 4,500 American soldiers died under that so-called “uniquely benign imperium”.  And under that “uniquely benign imperium” tens of thousands of American soldiers suffered serious wounds, not including PTSD.
In addition to widespread destruction, Mr. Krauthammer’s “uniquely benign imperium” ...]]></description>
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		<title>American Militarism: Part One (Rachel Maddow)</title>
		<link>http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/?p=701</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter C Uhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 14th my better half and I dined with another couple at Tre Scalini in South Philadelphia before scurrying over to Irvine Auditorium on the University of Pennsylvania campus to listen to Rachel Maddow speak about her book, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power.  Ms. Allyson Schwartz, currently a member of the U. S. House of Representatives and a recently announced candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, gave Ms. Maddow a glowing introduction.  So, too, did Philadelphia’s Mayor, Michael Nutter. 
Although she charmed her audience with wit, humor and a velvety-fisted critique of the many idiocies that pass for policies in the Republican Party these days, one might guess that the people who actually came to hear Ms. Maddow speak about her book were disappointed.  After all, for nearly thirty minutes Ms. Maddow spoke almost exclusively about just one part of her book, before taking questions. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans and the Iraq War: Ten Years Later</title>
		<link>http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/?p=691</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter C Uhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last October three scholars issued a report, which found that 79% of Republicans were explicit racists (see: http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/?p=666 ).   This past January a university poll found that as many as 64% of Republicans could be considered “birthers.”  (Most birthers are pathetic racist morons who, obsessed by their need to delegitimize America’s first black president, refuse to accept any evidence which proves that President Barack Obama was born in the United States.)    However, both of these morally bankrupt values pale in significance, when compared with the overwhelming support that Republicans continue to give to President Bush’s illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq.
Ten years ago this week, President George W. Bush gave the order for American troops to bomb and invade Iraq.  From August 2002 through March 2003, Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Fox News, Benghazi and President Reagan</title>
		<link>http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/?p=674</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter C Uhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Approximately five years ago I began following Nate Silver’s independent “FiveThirtyEight” blog.  Not being a statistician capable of running thousands of computer simulations, I decided to trust a fact-based aggregator of polls whose very reputation rested on making accurate political predictions, rather than rely on a specific poll or the biased estimates of liberal or conservative pundits. Thus, I confidently told a worried African-American friend that, notwithstanding news reports of a tightening race between John McCain and Barack Obama, Mr. Silver was predicting a near landslide victory for Obama.   Indeed, Senator Obama trounced Senator McCain in a near landslide. 
As a consequence, Mr. Silver and his blog were hired by the New York Times, where he eventually directed his poll-aggregating model at predicting the outcome of the race between President Obama and mendacious Mitt Romney. Approximately two weeks ago I referred a modestly educated family member &#8212; ...]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking About Racism as the Election Draws Near</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter C Uhler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African-American History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month professors Josh Pasek, Jon Krosnick and Trevor Thompson published a remarkable paper titled, “The Impact of Anti-Black Racism on Approval of Barack Obama’s Job Performance and on Voting in the 2012 Presidential Election.” The paper is based upon three online surveys of at least 1,000 Americans; one conducted in 2008, one in 2010 and a third that ended in early September of this year. The surveys enabled the authors to measure the existence of both explicit and implicit racism among people who call themselves Democrats, Independents and Republicans. 
Explicit racism, as measured in these surveys, is nothing like the explicit racism that existed fifty years ago.  Lee Atwater, a bare knuckles campaign advisor to both President George H. W. Bush and President George W. Bush, explained the evolution of explicit racism this way: “You start out in 1954 by saying ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968 you can’t ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mendacious Mitt Politicizes Benghazi</title>
		<link>http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/?p=659</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter C Uhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 22, 2011, Mitt Romney’s campaign released an ad that criticized President Obama’s handling of the economy.  To support its critique, Romney’s people inserted a snippet from a speech by Obama, which appeared to suggest that even Obama knew that the economy was a losing issue: &#8220;If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.&#8221;
However, when the fact-checkers looked into the ad, they found that it grossly misrepresented Obama’s statement. First, Obama spoke those words on October 16, 2008, three weeks before being elected President. Thus, he could not possibly have been referring to bad economic performance during his time in office.
Second, Obama used those words in the course of quoting an admission made by somebody in John McCain’s campaign.   Obama’s actual statement reads: &#8220;Senator McCain&#8217;s campaign actually said, and I quote, ‘If we keep talking about the economy, we&#8217;re going to lose.’”
When the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Did Mike McQueary Commit Perjury?</title>
		<link>http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/?p=641</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter C Uhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 12 June 2012, defense attorney Karl Rominger conducted a devastating cross examination of Mike McQueary in the course of attempting to defend the indefensible Jerry Sandusky. The actual transcript of that cross examination was not released until 21 September 2012, which explains why virtually nobody, except Barry Bozeman (See http://www.notpsu.blogspot.com/ ), has written about the deliberate deception Rominger exposed.
Mr. McQueary was the graduate assistant at Penn State who, according to the 4 November 2011 grand jury presentment, “saw a naked boy, Victim 2, whose age he estimated to be ten years old, with his hands up against the wall, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky” on 9 February 2001.
But, in fact, McQueary “saw” no such thing. How do we know?  First, because McQueary’s actual testimony to the grand jury reads: “I’m pretty sure he was sodomizing him, I’m relatively sure,” Second, because McQueary later testified ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why Bush, Cheney and the Neocons Failed to Protect America from al-Qaeda&#8217;s Vicious Attacks</title>
		<link>http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/?p=626</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter C Uhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 9/11.  After I read Kurt Eichenwald’s New York Times Op-ed, “The Deafness Before the Storm” ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?ref=opinion ), all the memories came back. Also coming back were all the infuriating memories suggesting that the Bush administration’s obsession with removing Saddam Hussein from power created a national security black hole into which sank all the bubbling intelligence about the increasing threat posed by al-Qaeda.
Mr. Eichenwald’s Op-ed is an eye-opener.  Although everyone capable of steaming up a mirror (when placed under his nose) knows about the August 6th daily brief titled, “bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.,” Eichenwald demonstrates that President Bush received more daily briefings about the threat posed by al-Qaeda than previously imagined.
“The direct warnings to Mr. Bush about the possibility of a Qaeda attack began in the spring of 2001.”  Eichenwald implies that, on May 1st, the CIA told the White House about a report claiming that ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hitting Penn State&#8217;s Board of Trustees Where it Hurts</title>
		<link>http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/?p=619</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter C Uhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judging by the tens of thousands of individuals who have read my articles, as well as the tens of thousands who have turned to http://framingpaterno.com , http://www.notpsu.blogspot.com and http://www.tominpaine.blogspot.com as well as numerous Penn State chat boards, one could hope that the groundwork was being prepared to launch an “Arab Spring” uprising against the Penn State’s Board of Trustees.
Evidence of such a spontaneous uprising took a pleasantly surprising turn yesterday when it was announced that “A Rally for Resignations” will be held on the Old Main lawn, starting at 10:00 AM on September 15, 2012.  Penn State students and alumni have been invited to participate and Penn State football legend, Franco Harris, will be the main speaker.  Participants at the rally will demand the resignations of Governor Corbett, President Rodney Erickson and most members of the Board of Trustees.
The announcement was pleasantly surprising because it caught many of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Former Chairmen of Penn State&#8217;s University Faculty Senate Repudiate the Freeh Report and Decry Unjust NCAA Sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/?p=612</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter C Uhler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The burden of being a full-time graduate student at the Pennsylvania State University during the academic years of 1973-1976 was almost enough to push my frivolous enjoyment of Penn State football completely out of my life.  I was spending much time in the stacks of the Pattee Library.  Some of that time was spent on Saturday afternoons, occasionally Saturday afternoons when Joe Paterno’s Penn State football team was competing against some other team right down the road from the library.
Don’t get me wrong, I was (and remain) a big Penn State football fan, especially because of the pride I took in the belief that Coach Paterno attempted to assure that his players did things right.  Education and the building of character first, then the winning of football games.  It came to be called The Grand Experiment. But I skipped a few football games precisely because my ...]]></description>
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