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sufrensucatash

news & opinion with no titillating non-news from the major non-news channels.

I am: progressive, not a wild-eyed Progressive; liberal, but shun liberals and Liberals; conservative, but some Conservatives worry me; absolutely NOT a libertarian. I am: an idealist, but no utopian; a pragmatist, but no Machiavellian. I am a realist who dreams.

I welcome all opinions.

Always On Top Posts

Letters to the Editor
Feel free to indulge yourself
The Rhymes of History
- Prelude: Baring my Soul
- 1913intel:Birds of a Feather?
  But I think we are closer to the end of Wilson's term

Series Updates

New World Order
- Remaking of a Unipolar World
- What is Democracy, Really?
War with China
- Part 5: Preparation is 90% of the War

New World Order

Remaking of a Unipolar World
What is Democracy, Really?

War with China

Part 1: On the Horizon
Part 2: Future History
Part 3: Continental vs Maritime Countries
Part 4: Setting the Stage
Part 5: Preparation is 90% of the War
Addendum: Free trade or Great Wall
Addendum: China "phishing" the South Pacific
Addendum: Japan, China feud over gas and oil deposits
Addendum: Latin American and the Monroe Doctrine
Addendum: Franco and Hitler; China and Africa
Addendum: China trawling in Africa
Addendum: Chinese Capitalism incompatible with West
Addendum: The dissolution of the UN World Order

Related Links

Analysis:

Strategic Interests:

Trade:

Sino-African Trade
China steals BlackBerry trademark

Military:

US beefs up long-term Pacific assets and here
America's 17 Navy Fleet
China's 1st Carrier
China to sink US Carriers
Laser Beam Weapons
Chinese anti-carrier "Backfire" bombers

Currently blogging at

Port McClellan
perennial favorite,
like going home for Christmas
Knighted The Sage of the Land of 10,000 Lakes
here, and here
How can I not return?
In These Times
well-fertilized soil,
but nothing grows there.
Yet they demand rebuttal
The Nation
same as inthesetimes.com

Currently reading

All Over but the Shoutin'
Rick Bragg
As good as American Southern Classics get
Bragg writes a story of his life, of the courage of his mother. He is a damn good writer.
Special Providence
Walter Russell Mead
pre 9/11 classic on American Foreign Policy history
In the wake of the Cold War, many were asking, Whither now? Mead provides a compass, and his compass survived the test of 9/11. The title of the book comes from an alleged utterance of Bismark, as he tried to fathom the American success story, "God has a special providence for fools, drunks and the United States of America".
John Adams
David McCullough
rereading actually
a door into our moment of birth, through the eyes of one of the most important Founding Fathers of all

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Recent Comments

Jay Cline reveals Saddam firing-squad gag on Reblogged: Bush lied, NOT!
Mark ducks the debate and confuses legal disclaimers for ??? on Reblogged: Bush lied, NOT!
Gay Clown is very unhappy and gets quite uncivil on Putting on the Ritz
Sam Osborne compares Cheney to Capote <<<>sh-u-u-u-dder>>> on George Clooney, necon
mvanburen deftly blue-pencils my prose on Teutonic Dreams
Jay Cline rereads Anonymous and gets irate on Murtha's unfriendly fire
Jay Cline reminds Anonymous that the response to Murtha comes from one of his own constituents and that Jay also is a vet on Murtha's unfriendly fire
Anonymous digs in December archives and cries foul on Murtha's unfriendly fire