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So, happily, we can put behind us the tragedy of a rich golfer crashing his Cadillac into a fire hydrant and the deep mystery of how two attention whores sneaked into the White House when no Republicans cuoould get an invitation. Can we please discuss our national security? Please? How about we talk about General…er..Senator […]
Paying for war
We’ve watched as government spending has increased over the last year at a rate which is the only thing that will never be described by this White House as unprecedented. The word “trillions” slides off the tongues of politicians like honey these days. Every where you turn, there are signs announcing the commencement of some […]
Hitchens to “Who Created Hasan”
This past weekend, I read Robert Wright’s anti-intellectual piece in the New York Times entitled “Who Created Major Hasan?“. Of course, since it’s Robert Wright and the New York Times, you know his conclusion. It was us (or US, if you prefer) Both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were supposed to reduce the number of […]
The veil slips
So all of this talk about how Obama was going to get us the respect that the world lost for us during those eight dark Bush years seems to have waned and reality is gob-smacking the media. Newsbuster’s Noel Sheppard marvels at Chris Matthews comparisons of Obama to Jimmy Carter (where ya been Chris – […]
Dionne: moderates are bad except when they’re good
Remember the good old days of the Bush Administration when moderate Republicans were praised by the media for holding the line against Bush extremism and a rubberstamp Congress? It seems like only yesterday, doesn’t it? Well, suddenly, Democrat moderates are blocking a rubberstamp Congress and Washington Post’s EJ Dionne doesn’t like it one bit; Last […]
Falling into the media’s trap
CBS News has published a new poll that declares Sarah Palin radioactive for Republicans. According to them, only 1 in 4 Americans view Sarah Palin favorably; Just 23 percent of those surveyed in a new CBS News poll have a favorable view of the former Alaska governor. That matches her favorable rating in July, when […]
Hungry, hungry hippos
The Washington Post has an article in today’s paper entitled “Report: More Americans going hungry” – it’s a headline right out of the battle for Lyndon Johnson’s war against poverty; In 2008, the report found, nearly 17 million children — more than one in five across the United States — were living in households in […]
The two faces of Matthew Alexander
Matthew Alexander published his book last year entitled “How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq”. The book has it’s roots in a Mark Bowden article in the Atlantic. Alexander parlayed the Atlantic article into a book deal. After he wrote it, […]
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