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Sorry About That

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This blog was out of service for a few hours, possibly because of a problem with the “Recent Comments” plugin that displays reader comments in the blog’s right sidebar. I’m not sure if the problem is fixed, but I’m disabling the comments plugin until I can find something to replace it with. Apologies for the inconvenience. [UPDATE: I reactivated the comments display in the right sidebar.]

Can anyone recommend a comment-display plugin or feed-reader for WordPress 2.8x-3.x that will fit in a blog sidebar? We used a Grazr feed reader for this purpose and, aside from the minor annoyance of delayed comment display due to caching, it worked pretty well — you could comfortably read the entire text of each comment in the feed window and thus follow comment threads from the blog’s front page. But Grazr is no more, so I installed Recent Comments. This works adequately, but it’s a step down in usefulness because it lacks Grazr’s clever way of displaying the full text of comments. And it caches comments so that they don’t display for an unpredictable amount of time after they are posted. Is there something better out there? Thanks.

Kindle Launch: The Handbook of 5GW

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The Handbook of 5GW– Dr. Daniel H. Abbott, Editor

Self-promotion department…. :)

Nimble Books has published the first authoritative book on the competing interpretations of the military and political theory referred to as “Fifth Generation Warfare“, edited by my friend and collegue Dr. Daniel Abbott. The many contributing authors include academics, journalists such as David Axe, and many blogfriends associated with the former theory site, Dreaming5GW.

My chapter was entitled “5GW: Into the Heart of Darkness“. It is oriented more toward historical case studies than theory and is not in any way, shape or form, a “feel-good” piece. Here is a snippet:

“….This brings us to the probability that for the aforementioned states, their actual options for their ruling elites for adapting to the threat of 4GW will be between accepting varying degrees of failure-from conceding a temporary autonomous zone (TAZ) to rebels, to being overthrown, to imploding into anarchy as insurgents encroach-or “taking the gloves off” and using the indiscriminate, unrestricted violence of genocide to annihilate real and potential enemies before the international community can mobilize to prevent it. History suggests they might well succeed.”

The views within The Handbook of 5GW vary widely, as does the disciplinary approach of the authors, intending to stimulate thought, explore possible scenarios that range from the pragmatic and real to the imaginative and ideal.

Hardcover launch in September, 2010.

“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”

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“Small Wars Journal has kicked off our first fundraising campaign.”

So to better serve you, the small wars community of interest, we are in the unpleasant but necessary position of coming to you, hat in hand, in an NPR-like scenario. We are counting on your contributions, coupled with support from grants and foundations, collateral income (advertising and referrals), and volunteer contributions of effort and content, to help us do more of what you seem to value and want us to do.

I learn a lot from the SWJ community and the folks that gather in the comments section. Sort of like the Chicago Boyz community and comments section. Hmm – thanks, CBer’s!

Latest Blogad

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Check it out, top of the Left column. The book looks interesting. (I don’t know anything about it other than what’s written in the ad.)

Meeting Notice – Come to the Republican Liberty Caucus, Lake County Indiana

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Teapartiers, Mike Pence, Ron Paulers, Reagan Republicans, Goldwater Folk, Jim DeMint, Rand Paul, Gary Johnson, Ross Perot, John Hostettler, Marlin Stuzman… ACTIVIST.

If any of those groups or names have ever applied to you, then think about adding one more:

The Republican Liberty Caucus.

“Bringing the Activists to the Party and the Party to the Activists since 1991”
“The conscience of the Republican Party”

The Republican Liberty Caucus of Indiana is sponsoring a Call Out Meeting on Saturday May 22, 1:30pm @ Boston’s in Schererville on US30.

The RLC is working to build a grassroots network of American citizens who champion our country’s Founding principles. By empowering grassroots activists across the country via our national network and state/local affiliates, the Republican Liberty Caucus works to move Republican Party policies and candidates in the direction of liberty. At the same time, we are able to help transform concerned liberty-loving citizens into party leaders and elected citizen-legislators.

With activists in every state, a prominent Board of Advisors, and many elected members working to enact our vision for a free America, The Republican Liberty Caucus recruits and endorses select candidates who support individual liberty and limited government. In doing so, we are able to change the direction of the Republican Party — and shift American policies and politics to once again value our cherished Founding principles.

Over the past eighteen years, the Republican Liberty Caucus has endorsed and contributed financially to principled pro-liberty candidates and has encouraged its supporters to become active in their campaigns. In 2008, the RLC endorsed over 230 liberty Republican candidates and launched its new blog.

The Republican Liberty Caucus is leading the Republican Party home, but we cannot exist without your generosity. Please review how you can become involved either on the web at our home site or with one of our organization representatives. Also, on the web, please view ways to support our growing caucus or discuss that with an organizational representative. One example of ways to support is:

The Republican Liberty Caucus of Indiana is sponsoring a Call Out Meeting on Saturday May 22, 1:30pm @ Boston’s in Schererville on US30 in their patio section. Allow the activists to come out in you.

See you there!!!

In Liberty,
The Republican Liberty Caucus of Indiana
INRLC.org