OK so Sarah Palin, aka Annie Oakley, comes out and delivers an eloquent assault on Barack Obama for his lack of experience (and when it comes to lack of experience she’s certainly familiar with the condition) and she does it with wit and eloquence (though the speech was written before she was even selected and [...]
So, here’s John Edwards statement about Bush’s disdain for the law of the land.
“Only a president clinically incapable of understanding that mistakes have consequences could take the action he did today. President Bush has just sent exactly the wrong signal to the country and the world. In George Bush’s America, it is apparently okay to [...]
Glenn Greenwald has a particularly cogent commentary today (click on it to bypass Salon’s homepage) at his new home on Salon. Yes I know it requires clicking through an ad (though it is quite painless) but for Glenn it is well worth the time.
Irving Kristol (Himmelfarb’s husband) has written in the past about the [...]
Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone in a piece published over at Alternet nails the Friedman Unit. This excerpt is very telling but the whole piece is really worth a read.
I bring this up because Friedman’s latest column, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Know, Don’t Help,” is yet another “the war should have worked” piece, and it’s [...]
Now that I have your attention.
This rather interesting tidbit of news managed to rate mention in the bowels of that CBS news site. If you Google it you’ll find the only mentions of it is in obscure blogs (not as obscure as this one though) and if you search Google News you’ll [...]
Frank Rich has a new column out over at the NYTimes (unfortunately behind the paywall) that really skewers the fluffed up concern now being expressed about Iranian support for Iraqi insurgents. It can also be viewed here for those without paywall access at the Times.
It’s a great piece but in my mind it doesn’t [...]
Yeah, I know, it’s been a while but sometimes real life intervenes and some things take a hiatus. This blog has been on a hiatus but I’ll be back to my old semi-irregular posting non-schedule now that things have calmed down and life has gotten considerably saner, at least in our household if not [...]
Mahablog has it best and her history is as I remember it. McGovern didn’t lose because he was anti-war, Nixon’s entire campaign was based on the claim that he was the one best suited to end the war. Plus, Reagan didn’t run against Carter the peacenik, he ran against Carter as, believe it [...]
But we don’t of course, and Jamison Foser over at MediaMatters really nails them to the wall with this one. If only we could hold the media accountable, even in the imperfect way we get to hold politicians accountable.
So please — please — use these last 10 days well. Use them to educate your [...]
The miniature Earth.
Food for thought, perspective for the future.
There’s a powerfully sad and painful incongruity to the events of the last 10 days as they pertain to children and the predations of adults upon them. First we had the Platte Canyon assaults and shootings, perpetrated by a man obviously obsessed with young, thin, blonde girls. In addition he was well-armed and [...]
Yes, that’s old news. Old news that is to everyone except bush sycophants, toadies, neocon opportunists and Joe Lieberman (but I repeat myself). But bush actually said it today. That is he said it right after he used the very kind of sentence construction he and his ilk have used repeatedly to [...]
From Dori:
As Ned Lamont approached the mike for his victory speech last night I found myself thinking of Iraq. It would have been going on six in the morning there, daylight on another day of excruciating violence.
As blue and white balloons filled the room I wondered if there would be any joy in Baghdad over [...]
The following is a comprehensive interview with candidate Ned Lamont, running against Joe Leiberman for the Democratic Senate nomination in Connecticut. Thanks to Dori Smith of Talk Nation Radio for this excellent and timely interview that includes other interviews and information on the nationally important Connecticut race. (cross-posted at Talk Nation Radio)
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Oh man, the press conference today with Bush and his pet puppy dog Tony Blair is frightening for both the sheer inanity of the Administration viewpoint expressed by Bush and the glimpse into the horror of how he apparently views the world and our role in it. (my bold)
Here’s part of [...]
This is what the world sees when they look at bush. His behavior the other day towards Chancellor Merkel of Germany would be reprehensible if he did it at a church social but it is even more so at a meeting of world leaders (and no, I don’t include him in the list of [...]
I just saw this post on Think Progress that highlights more pronouncements from Weekly Standard honcho, Fox News hired blowhard and PNAC nincompoop Bill Kristol concerning how the people of Iran will greet us when we bomb the shit out of their country hoping to hit something important in the process.
The comments about the outcome [...]
John Dean has a new book Conservatives without Conscience where he delves into the psychological underpinnings of modern neoconservatism, a quite distinct beast from the Goldwater conservatism of yesterday to which its adherents pay lip service.
Here’s an excerpt from an op-ed he wrote for the Boston Globe.
What I found provided a personal epiphany. Authoritarian conservatives [...]
Well now, it has been an interesting couple of days. It seems John Dean has a new book out called Conservatives without Conscience and it ought to prove interesting reading. Keith Olbermann interviewed him the other day about it in a thoughtful and fascinating interview. (video courtesy of Crooks and Liars).
The basic premise [...]
Read the entire entry on Unclaimed Territory but these two paragraphs really state the premise I’ve long advocated (and much better than I) that our current neoconservative regime and ideology is premised on the United States being fundamentally weak and vulnerable and our foundational values inadequate to the task of “defending” us in our weak [...]