http://www.americanpoliticalblog.com News about Democrats, Republicans and other unseemly types. Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:25:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en They are back! The totalitarian atheists who want to legislate their atheism. Richard Dawkins joins the hallowed ranks of totalitarian atheists such as Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Unfortunately he's an old geezer, a bitter and angry one, and must suffer from extremely high blood pressure. This means he won't live to ... http://www.americanpoliticalblog.com/2008/01/19/the-totalitarian-atheists/ Pacifism is the position that states that one should not oppose violent aggression with the most effective means of opposing it - i.e., force. http://www.americanpoliticalblog.com/2007/12/28/the-folly-of-pacifism/ Los Angeles Judge Lance Ito has requested former White House official Scooter Libby be asked to serve additional “sleep time” on top of the already hefty thirty month sentence imposed by Ito's California court. Citing “occasionally successful correctional findings” spotlighted in a Swiss study on sleep penalties, Judge Ito ordered the ... http://www.americanpoliticalblog.com/2007/12/18/judge-imposes-additional-sleep-penalties-on-libby/ Seeing a human being where there is none and consequently murder where there is none, serves to destroy the lives of women, and of families, who cannot afford the burden of an unwanted extra child, which they are nonetheless forced to accept because the possibility of abortion is denied them. Thus ... http://www.americanpoliticalblog.com/2007/12/02/george-reisman-and-dishonesty-in-the-abortion-debate/ Now here's a level headed piece on the abortion debate. Always happy to see a spin doctor go down in flames. http://www.americanpoliticalblog.com/2007/11/19/write-up-on-cristina-page/ On September 13, 2004 – as it happens just two days after the third anniversary of 9/11 -- FrontPage magazine published student Brett Mock’s account of a class he took in “Peace Studies” at Ball State University in Indiana. The class was billed as a course in the causes of ... http://www.americanpoliticalblog.com/2007/07/31/one-mans-terrorist-is-another-mans-freedom-fighter/ Following his triumphant victory in the New Hampshire Democratic Presidential candidate’s debate, Senator John “Johnny-boy” Edwards had a little rain poured on his parade by a former National Director of Weather Secretary, US Air Force General Scheville Stone II. Edwards told delegates in attendance in Manchester that if elected President he ... http://www.americanpoliticalblog.com/2007/06/05/decorated-air-force-general-nixes-edwards-balloon-trip-idea/ Presidential hopeful John “Johnny-boy” Edwards told members of the press and others in attendance at the Manchester, New Hampshire Democratic debate that if elected President in 2008 he would “travel around the world and restore America’s reputation.” Asked by rival Democratic Presidential contender Barack Obama how he would be traveling “around ... http://www.americanpoliticalblog.com/2007/06/04/edwards-to-%e2%80%9ctravel-world%e2%80%9d-in-hot-air-balloon/ It is amazing how over the past six or seven years the Internet and the online world has played an increasingly important role in politics. In the 2004 U.S. Presidential elections, blogs and political websites really came into their own and played a big role in the political arena, ... http://www.americanpoliticalblog.com/2007/03/29/politics-online/ A perfect excuse for the US government to increase gas taxes. http://www.americanpoliticalblog.com/2007/03/26/the-global-warming-scam/