On HuffPo, Max Bergmann reports: “Six years ago, America was fighting and winning in Afghanistan. Now, we face a rejuvenated Taliban insurgency, a country on the brink of becoming a failed state, and a safe haven for Al Qaeda.”
Yet, the Afghanistan crisis is hardly mentioned at all in the presidential debates. None of the […]
Green jell-o with carrots mixed in doesn’t seem strange.
You can pronounce Tooele.
The U is not just a letter - Neither is the Y.
You have actually eaten funeral potatoes.
You’ve gotten both heat and frost burns off your car’s door handle in the same month.
You are not surprised to hear words like “Darn, Fetch, Flip”, “Oh, My […]
On Sunday, speaking to supporters in Polk City, Florida, Senator John McCain all but promised to go to war with Iran if elected President. Huffington Post has the video.
MSNBC commentator Pat Buchanan also thinks McCain is determined to take this country into another war, in addition to the two we are currently losing in […]
Via Feministing, I see a great article by Sara Robinson about the changing dynamics of abortion.
The gist of the article concerns the way in which medical termination of unwanted pregnancies (i.e. RU-486) is changing the way in which women receive and experience abortions, and is changing the locus of control over reproductive freedom - namely moving […]
Last night, I watched The Long Walk: Tears of the Navajo on KUED - a history of the forced relocation of thousands of Navajo from their homeland to Bosque Redondo. If I’m reading correctly, the show is a production of KUED which is great - it’s time we uncover these parts of our history, that we refuse […]
Marty Kaplan
State of Outrage
Posted January 27, 2008 01:12 PM (EST)
Because Barbara Bush taught him to “use your words, George,” her son the president, rather than actually mooning some Senate Democrats at the joint session of Congress on Monday night as he would like to do, will instead call them terrorist-lovers for refusing to […]
Via Think Progress:
Fox News Channel reporter Bret Baier has put together an adulatory one hour documentary, “George W. Bush: Fighting to the Finish.” The show will air on Sunday. Baier said that what surprised him was the President’s repeated efforts to link himself to Abraham Lincoln:
We talked a lot about President Lincoln. And […]
Sometimes reality gets so far ahead of satire, it’s impossible to catch up. In last night’s Florida GOP debate, Mike Huckabee compared Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to an Easter egg hunt: “Everybody can look back and say, oh well we didn’t find the weapons. Doesn’t meet that they weren’t there. Just because you […]
On the one year anniversary of President Bush’s State of the Union address justifying his “New Way Forward” in Iraq, it is clear that the so-called “surge” has failed to meet its objectives. One year ago, the president pledged that “America will hold the Iraqi government to the benchmarks it has announced.” Despite the fact […]
Read the whole thing but here are my favorite passages:
The staggering losses we’ve sustained from three decades of increasingly authoritarian, non-reality-based, Daddy-knows-best deciding are mounting up. On 9/11, in New Orleans, in Minneapolis, in Iraq, in a planet-sweeping range of diplomatic failures, in the debacles around a Homeland Security department that was apparently designed for […]
Weapons of mass destruction capable of killing millions… Iraq is allied with al Qaeda and a training ground for terrorists… The smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud… September the 11th… Mobile biological weapons facilities… Unmanned aerial vehicles… Aluminum tubes… Chemical weapons… Uranium from Niger…
A new study […]
It seems oddly appropriate that 2008 Blog for Choice day is the day that the Rep. Stephen Sandstrom’s slut shaming, forced pregnancy hot potato bill was handed off to the Office of Legislative Research & General Counsel - which has already rendered a negative opinion on the bill.
Sandstrom’s bill would prohibit abortion except to save […]
Does anyone remember the heady days of Paul Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority? The conquerors of Baghdad and the exiled politicians they brought with them were full of enthusiasm to remake the New Iraq, whether anyone else liked it or not. One of their genius ideas, unveiled in April 2004, was a new flag […]
Via the Associated Press:
Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaeda to blow up a radioactive “dirty bomb,” was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on terrorism conspiracy charges that don’t mention those initial, unproven allegations.
U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke rejected a prosecution request for a sentence of life imprisonment because Padilla was […]
With yesterday’s largely ceremonial opening over and done with, today marks the first day of real work in the state Leg.
The schedule of events starts at 8 a.m. with committee meetings/hearings (remember, these meetings are where bills go to die).
The tools for staying abreast of what’s happening are plentiful and relatively easy to use. […]
In the New York Times, Michael Gordon suggests that the presidential candidates are flunking Iraq 101. Our commanders in Iraq are always careful to emphasize that a long and difficult job still lies ahead if we follow through on the Bush administration’s “stay the course” strategy. In contrast, campaigning politicians only address the […]
I love the fact that this time of year, I eat citrus - I much prefer the flavor of blood oranges to navels. When people see the dark red fruit, smaller than a grapefruit, they ask, in a short of fascinated horror, “What are you eating?” They know it’s not a grapefruit, but most people […]
Hat tip to our good friends at Liberal Oasis for pointing us to this great article.
The broad point - as true today as in 2001 when Bush was pushing for his first round of no millionaire left behind tax cuts - is that economic stimulus from the government should to contain 5 primary components. Tax […]
8 bills per day. That’s how many bills have to be killed or passed each day to get through the list of proposed bills in the 2008 session.
Utah’s legislative session lasts 45 days.
Cutting through all the noise surrounding the primaries, is the remarkable apathy toward the republican candidates.
Here is a summary of turnout by party so far.
IOWA: 236,000 Democrats and 119,000 Republicans
NEW HAMPSHIRE: 284,000 Democrats and 233,000 Republicans
MICHIGAN: 593,000 Democrats and 867,000 Republicans (NOTE: Republicans had a primary with delegates at stake. Democrats did not)
NEVADA: 114,000 Democrats […]
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