The story of U.S. counterinsurgency “success” and military withdrawal is a bed-time tale told to put the American public to sleep. So argues Hannah Gurman in a Salon piece that punctures several propaganda balloons floated by the ObamAdmin, GOP and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As in “blind” and “crazy”: Instead of “the hammer,” in the words of John O. Brennan, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, America will rely on the “scalpel.” In a speech in May, Mr. Brennan, an architect of the White House[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My fellow leftoids may rage against FOXNews, but I appreciate the service they provide: putting all the right-wing crazy into one predictable package. Really, I don’t need Media Matters to cherry-pick the offensive and stupid, when all I have to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Awright! We got Osama! Or, really, his cook. But how’s he gonna get his lamb kabobs now, huh? Anyway, the cook will get two years, wherever the military decides to finally put him. The judge, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Nancy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The WaPo reports BP crapped 4.9 million barrels (205.8 million gallons) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Or about a quarter of the U.S. daily consumption of oil, per CIA World Factbook 2008 estimate. But double that of India,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So the ObamAdmin’s response to the WikiLeaks papers: “We are in this region of the world because of what happened on 9/11,” Mr. Gibbs said. “Ensuring that there is not a safe haven in Afghanistan by which attacks against this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is indeed the dumbest thing yet said about Shirley Sherrod. So dumb, even Tintin’s shorter parody can not live down to it. (Title taken from Dylan’s “Idiot Wind.” No decent YouTube vid for it, but Adam Levy does a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Taliban claims to have captured two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, while U.S. missiles kill 16 “militants” in Northwest Pakistan. Meanwhile my kids’ school district is cutting over a hundred jobs and consolidating schools. Unemployment remains at about 10 percent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t dispute Dennis G’s simple take on the mid-term elections: In November we face a choice between the Confederate Party and modernity. But sweet baby jeebiz, that’s a downer. If “modernity” is defined as the corporate crony Democrats currently[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
News is coming down that Roman Polanski is off the hook: The Swiss government this morning announced that it has rejected the U.S.’ request to extradite the director back to Los Angeles so that he could finally face up to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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