American exceptionalism often means things like calling football soccer while the rest of the world calls it football . Yes, us northern neighbours do the same thing but it’s still wrong. My biggest peeve about American exceptionalism is the fact they cannot get their political colours correct. Every American election
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Dead Wild Roses: The Rule of Law and American Exceptionalism
Much of the talk about the rule of law, at least in international politics seems to be but a mere convenience to be followed when international law happens to be in favour of a countries policies. When it becomes inconvenient to the national policy or doctrine, then the rule of
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Independence Day: An excellent moment for Canadians to recommit ourselves to being different from the United States
Today is the Fourth of July, Independence Day in the Great Republic immediately to our south. Normally, as befits our national character, we Canadians celebrate this occasion with restrained fondness for our American cousins, coming as it does just three days after la fête du Canada. On the 242nd observance
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: As Good a Take as Any. The Roots of America’s Malaise.
His book is, “Tailspin – The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall – and Those Fighting to Reverse It.” He is Steven Brill, founder of American Lawyer magazine and, gulp, Court TV.In a remarkable essay, Brill outlines the culture that put America into a nose dive, how the country went
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Writing in Foreign Policy, Max Boot argues that “Trump’s ‘America First’ Is the Twilight of American Exceptionalism.” Boot’s essay begins with an extensive catalogue of the similarities between Obama’s policies and what Trump will likely deliver. He finds Obama a latter day Jefferson and sees in Trump a 21st century
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This excerpt from Paul Street’s essay, “Bob Kerrey, Fulbright University, and the Neoliberal Erasure of History.” Mistakes Happen “And besides, the conventional imperial American exceptionalist wisdom holds. mistakes happen. It’s true, dominant media and reputable intellectuals acknowledge, Uncle Sam and his innately gallant gendarmes occasionally make “mistakes” in their inherently noble (because American) zeal […]
Hillary Clinton—a very dangerous lady
During the Democratic nomination race for the 2008 U.S. presidential election, my preference was torn between a woman president or a black president. I was leaning toward the woman, Hillary Clinton, when, watching her on a TV interview, she stated that if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons she would
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Chris Hedges’ 2003 Rockford College Commencement Address – Speaking Truth to Power
Let us take a good look at how free speech and competing idea’s are treated at a American College. You wonder why so many people just roll their eyes when the words American and enlightened are mentioned in the same sentence. What gets me is that these are the supposed
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We’re Number One, We’re Number One! No you’re bloody well not, no you’re bloody well not! The United States is many things but it’s not the greatest country in the world. It has a chequered past and a chequered present. Yet from mainstreet Hicksville, Arkansas to Capital Hill, Washington,
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Murders, murders and more murders. Following were the headlines on MSNBC site. NRA gathers amid growing storm over self-defense laws NYT: National Rifle Association begins annual meeting as critics attack its campaign to strengthen Stand Your Ground statutes and decrease limits on gun ownership. Police chief killed, 4 officers shot
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If the Nicaraguan national assembly or Honduran national assembly sent a letter to a city in the United States and asked them not to erect a statue of Ronald Reagan?hat tip to Doug SaundersTweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Death Star Project Under Attack!
Supposedly “scientific” calculations from elitist, fancy-pants researchers at Lehigh University released today estimate it will take another 833,315 years to produce enough iron ore and steel at current production levels to build the apocalyptic space weapon proposed by President Gingrich. The research team furthermore projects total cost of the “Callista”
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