Following President Obama’s state of the union address on Tuesday — or really, even as it was going on, via social media — conservatives and libertarians hauled out all of their tired old arguments about big government, “why does every[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I haven’t seen Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper”, so I cannot rate it as a work of art. I’m more interested in the conversation … no, that’s not the word. Social media doesn’t seem to support conversation or debate. More like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So the president went to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and asked the nation’s CEOs to give a shit about someone other than themselves. He promised them he will work on that pesky tax code (the one with the loopholes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Taking a break from watching and reading about the revolutionary activity in Egypt so I can, ya know, write about it. It’s called “processing.” Or vomiting, your pick. So the WaPo was the first Respectable Beltway News Organ to publish[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Driving my daughter home from school, I caught the first fifteen minutes of All Things Considered. First up, a story on the “bipartisan” seating arrangements between Democratic and Republican congress-things during tomorrow’s State of the Union address. Secondly came a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last week President Obama flew to India to sell them $5 billion for 10 Boeing C-17 cargo planes — the sixth biggest arms deal in U.S. history. As Jim Hightower points out, this deal doesn’t do much to boost American[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Iran is a threat because Washington says so. Certainly, WaPo accepts the charge at face value: Iran’s ambitions, which have cast a long shadow over the greater Middle East, may serve as a common bond keeping a frail peace process[…]↓ 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…
Oh, Daily Beast, you are a wonder. When I tire of the right wing war blather, there you are, serving up the liberal equivalent. But first, I agree with Atrios — Peter Beinart has a point: Last summer, he tried[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ONOZ. Foreign Affairs editor James Hoge on why [McChrystal] must be fired—and how Obama is in danger of becoming a wuss. Not a wuss! At first I thought this choice of words came from the Daily Beast editors, no strangers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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