Lone Star military intelligence analyst who actually analyzes something important. The high percentage of support he receives in the comments following the article may be illusory, but at least the usual trolls and shills seem to be either absent or hopelessly outnumbered. One would like to hope that this is a significant straw-in-the-wind, but it will probably make fewer waves than Cindy Sheehan, whose protest has not yet, alas, been able to reach "critical mass".
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."