{"id":587,"date":"2007-08-23T08:19:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T12:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/the-liberty-alliance\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T08:19:29","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T12:19:29","slug":"the-liberty-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"The Liberty Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ll notice at the top of my blogroll in the right column\u00c2\u00a0are several blogs under the heading Liberty Alliance. It was started by my new friends Mike from Lamplighter<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(in Arizona) and Lady Vorzheva from Spanish Pundit<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(um, from Spain). I’ve been reading their blogs\u00c2\u00a0for months when they very kindly asked me to join this group of bloggers from around the world. I guess they needed a Homer Simpson-type to round out their otherwise brilliant and\u00c2\u00a0urbane bunch – even brain surgeons\u00c2\u00a0keep a hammer in the operating room.<\/p>\n

Regardless, of their reasons, I’m grateful and I urge my readers to drink deeply from their intellectual well.<\/p>\n

The group is loosely formed and generally dedicated to writing as often as possible about real human rights issues (as opposed to those fake human rights issues that usually turn out to be a way for some power mad lout to\u00c2\u00a0usurp people’s rights) that are really the core of western democracy.<\/p>\n

There’s Kate from A Columbo-Americana’s Perspective<\/a> who lives here in the Metro DC area, but she pops up from all over the world. A couple of weeks ago she made comments here from Managua. Her perspective on Latin America is unique and valuable.<\/p>\n

And one of the most facinating blogs I’ve ever read is Kamangir<\/a>. He’s an Iranian student in Canada and\u00c2\u00a0translates news reports from behind the Iranian curtain and shows us the real Islamic Revolution. I can spend hours just reading his archives.<\/p>\n

I’d write an introduction to Fausta’s Blog<\/a>, but anyone who has been on the internet more than a minute knows the Puerto Rican firecracker.\u00c2\u00a0I almost lost control of all of my body functions when I found out I’d be associated with Fausta.<\/p>\n

In Partibus Infididelium<\/a> is a Spaniard in Saudi Arabia – he really tests my Spanish skills, but he’s worth the work. Martha Colmenares<\/a> blogs in Spanish, too, from Venezuela – a great perspective that we don’t get here from the pro-Chavez media. Another Venezuelan in the group is Julia from The End of Venzuela as I know It<\/a>. She is on the inside of the White Hands (Hands of Freedom) movement and writes in English – she claims it’s not her first language, but you’d hardly know it.<\/p>\n

jcdurbant<\/a> blogs from France – now, I can read a bit of French sometimes (don’t make me write or talk, though – my wife and I lived on crousants and coffee the three days we were in Paris because that’s all I could say) and what I’ve translated for myself at this blog is a unique\u00c2\u00a0view of\u00c2\u00a0the world\u00c2\u00a0from\u00c2\u00a0France.<\/p>\n

Pastorius, from Southern California,\u00c2\u00a0at Cuanas<\/a> is just a pleasure to read – the words just melt into my brain. I envy people to whom writing comes so easily.<\/p>\n

Reading\u00c2\u00a0Molten Thought<\/a>‘s Teflon\u00c2\u00a0is like reading my own thoughts – only more coherent and much funnier.<\/p>\n

But the most intriguing is Incognito of Confessions of a Closet Republican<\/a>. She admits she’s a Hollywood actress who’s crossed over from the darkside, but since she wants to continue working, she has to remain…well, incognito. I love a mystery. She’s commented here a few times and besides being the mysterious lady behind the curtain (who, in my stuck-in-the-thirties-Bogart-movies\u00c2\u00a0mind,\u00c2\u00a0is tall, blonde and always wearing a black evening gown and a glass of red wine in one hand and an unlit\u00c2\u00a0cigarette in the other), she’s much brighter than\u00c2\u00a0my personal stereotype of\u00c2\u00a0a Hollywood actress.<\/p>\n

Please take the tour and I hope you enjoy these new friends of mine as much as I enjoy them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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