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Bryce Elson

Minneapolis, MN
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Posted on 04/19/12 at 11:21 am in response to What’s really behind the abortion bills in Legislature?

The GOP that claims to be for individual liberty and against government regulation strikes again.
At least this is a potential jobs bill as it will secure more licensing work and cushy state bureaucrat jobs that Republicans usually like to rail against. Individual Catholics may be conflicted as your headline article read yesterday, but their leadership has a firm hold on their own agenda and on the noses of 80 legislators in an even numbered calendar year.

Posted on 04/19/12 at 01:11 pm in response to NFL is not pleased with Minnesota over stadium

Goodbye, don't let the door hit you in your derriere on the way out.

Posted on 05/29/09 at 05:07 pm in response to The end of American exceptionalism

I went to Bacevich's talk at St Joan of Arc where he spoke about the USA Afghanistan policy. Basically his thesis is that Afghanistan, and a weakened Al Qaeda are not a serious threat to the USA and that trying to win the war there is a fools errand as learned by countless imperial fools before this American one.

I dont make sense of Mr Iacano's comment however, with the possible exception of the War of 1812, most every war mentioned was fought with direct sloganeering about...

Posted on 02/24/09 at 02:47 pm in response to Slouching toward nationalization: The banks are dead; long live the banks!

excellent comment Steve.

think in terms of 16th-17th century Spain as the model of rise/fall...

Posted on 05/10/08 at 08:08 am in response to Why does the U.S. overthrow regimes in other countries?

May I recommend another book..."The Dominion of War-Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000" by Fred Anderson and Andrew Clayton. The authors discuss basically the same theory in the context of American history with emphasis upon the the usage of the third stage as noted by Kinzer. The book is scrupulously documented and focuses on several individuals as chapter topics(Champlaign, Washington, Jackson, Macarthur, etc.) and the relation of the dynamics of the use of military conquest...