Richardxx

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• Location Fort Worth, TX
• Party Democratic Party
• Politics Pro National Health Care, social liberal, Pro military with demand that wars be justified rationally, Firm believer in the effectiveness of competitive free trade but clearly understand that monopolies, oligopolies, and large businesses that dominate their industry are not adequately controlled by competition. Add to that the fact that banks have too much impact on the money supply to be allowed to function without a great deal of transparency with government oversight and regulation.

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• Favorite Blogs Talking Points Memo, Political Animal
• Favorite Books Learning to eat soup with a knife (John A. Nagl), The wealth and poverty of nations (David Landes), The Origins of the First World War (Gordon Martel), The First World War (John Keegan), Language in thought and action (S. I. Hayakawa), Penguin History of the USA (Hugh Brogan), A History of God (Karen Armstrong), I Ching (James Legge), The Great Transformation (Karl Polyani), The Age of Revolution 1789 - 1848 (Eric Hobsbawm), An Empire for Slavery: the peculiar institution in Texas 1821 - 1865 (Randolph A. Campbell), The Eliminationists: How hate talk radicalized the American Right (David Neiwert)

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Retired military (Major), Texan, Web Programmer, politics junkie, with a BS in Economics and an MBA. Student of corporate strategy and organization theory. Long time reader of history, curious about why Europe came to dominate much of the world in the first 4 centuries of the last 5, then has been gradually matched then passed up in the last century.