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Bush?s real legacy
2007-12-14 00:00:00 Joseph Stiglitz writes about George Bush ?s real legacy?all the things Dubya has given this country since taking office in 2001: An anticipated $2.2 trillion surplus turned into an $850 billion deficit. (Conservative retort: Freedom isn?t free!) 5.3 million more Americans... More About: Real , Legacy
Withdrawing from Iraq will make gas cheaper
2007-12-14 00:00:00 The San Francisco Chronicle published this letter from a well-meaning guy: I feel like we are the silent majority here in America. We vote in a Democratic majority to Congress to stop or at least slow down this president. We... More About: Iraq , Make
Customs agents foil foreign fruit assault
2007-12-14 00:00:00 [This slipped through the cracks but is still relevant, because pointless harassment by TSA gorillas isn't going away any time soon. ?B.C.] Pre-9/11, the Bush administration may have let groups of knife-wielding terrorists onto planes, but believe you me, they... More About: Fruit , Agents , Assault , Foreign , Customs
Pages have sex, Republicans outraged!
2007-12-14 00:00:00 Two Republican representatives?it doesn't matter which two; they're interchangeable?on the House Page Board have resigned from the board in protest after the late-night escapades of some young pages came to light. Why would the Republicans resign over this? There are... More About: Pages , Ages
Bush says, "Remember Pearl Harbor?bomb Iran"
2007-12-14 00:00:00 How else would Fox News mark Pearl Harbor Day? Children carried gas masks to the playground. Military officers commanded civilian courts under martial law. Residents feared enemy troops would parachute into the mountains and then swarm the beaches. Conservatives must... More About: Bush , Iran , Bomb
Hey, Congress?forget about climate change until after more Republicans are
2007-12-14 00:00:00 They're not called the Gang Of Petrowhores for nothing. Senate Republicans are blocking the energy bill that seeks to address global warming. They want to strip it of provisions that would roll back tax breaks for big oil companies and... More About: Congress , Climate Change , Climate , Change
Our defense industry created the mess in Pakistan
2007-12-07 00:00:00 The tax dollars that Bush has given to Pakistan in the name of counterterrorism has been essentially wasted: [R]ather than use the more than $7 billion in U.S. military aid to bolster its counter-terrorism capabilities, Pakistan has spent the bulk... More About: Industry , Defense , Mess
How Bush will break our addiction to foreign oil
2007-12-07 00:00:00 The war with Iran that the Republicans are pushing so hard for is, believe it or not, all part of the greater effort to wean America off foreign oil: Once we invade Iran, set up permanent military bases there, and... More About: Bush , Break , Addiction , Foreign , Addict
Right-wingers turn a negative (mall shooting by an American) into a positiv
2007-12-06 00:00:00 The right-wing noise machine, led by Fox News, has been trying to keep American s good and scared about the possibility of terrorists attacking the heart of American culture: the shopping mall. But unfortunately for the Republican Party, the only evildoers... More About: Shooting , Mall , Negative , Turn
Don't take that 12-pound tumor off my face, Doc. God wants it there
2007-12-05 00:00:00 [Warning: The links below lead to some fairly graphic images of unusual medical conditions. But if God created these conditions, who are we to get grossed out by His creations? ?B.C.] When someone in, say, a small village in China... More About: Tumor , Face , Pound
The new Tom Hanks film (or ?Mike Nichols can kiss my ass?)
2007-12-05 00:00:00 I just saw a preview for "Charlie Wilson's War," a new Tom Hanks film directed by Mike Nichols, and my initial reaction is, Mike Nichols?and everyone else involved in the movie?can kiss my ass. Let me explain. The film tracks... More About: Film , Kiss
Fascism is freedom! (Just ask Rudy)
2007-12-04 00:00:00 A Guiliani supporter left this comment, including a very insightful quote by his Fuhrer, after a story about the Ron Paul campaign: Rudy will kill the terrorists. Rudy will bomb Iran, Syria, and Pakistan. Rudy will torture enemy combatants. Rudy... More About: Freedom , Fascism
Creating the idiocracy
2007-12-04 00:00:00 Kids coming up through the public education system are "nothing less than a tidal wave of dumb," says a teacher in the trenches. But don't blame the youth: They're merely the victims of a horribly failed educational system. . .... More About: Creating , Idiocracy
Barack Obama knocks 'em out at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner
2007-12-04 00:00:00 Barack Obama gave an amazing speech at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner . If he gave more speeches like this one, and if the mainstream media gave those speeches more airtime, then the dynamics of this race would change big time. A... More About: Barack Obama , Barack
The airplane of the future
2007-12-02 00:00:00 Politicians in Brazil years ago took to calling their land the country of the future. Brazilians less vulnerable to such "freedom's on the march"-type slogans noticed that the situation in Brazil never seemed to be changing for the better the... More About: Future , The Future , Airplane
Obama gets "Dean screamed"
2007-12-01 00:00:00 "Dean screaming" is a political smear tactic for turning a relatively minor flub into a big deal by getting the media to treat it like a big deal. The term originates in the overexcited speech Howard Dean delivered after placing... More About: Obama
Bush's Middle East dilemma: how to convince Americans (but not the base) th
2007-11-30 00:00:00 You know the situation in Iraq is FUBAR when Bush doesn?t even attempt to laud the recent lull in violence there. I mean, some of the stats are moving in a good direction, so why isn?t Fox News throwing Bush... More About: Middle East , East , Middle , Americans , Dilemma
Deadbeat dad abandons family, blames Satan!
2007-11-30 00:00:00 Here is yet more proof that one of the primary social functions of religion is to provide crooks, deadbeats, and lowlifes in general with a way to avoid blame for their own deplorable behavior: The mayor of an Arkansas town... More About: Family , Satan , Abandon
It's official: Republicans have lost the base
2007-11-30 00:00:00 Holy propaganda failure, Batman! The leading G.O.P. candidates are being dissed by the redneck entertainment industry and the phony-baloney religious fraud business. It's almost as if Red State America has seen through all that "family values" bullshit. First, Mike "Hasn't... More About: Lost , Republicans , Official , Base
Schwarzenegger racks up Cali debt in true G.O.P. style
2007-11-30 00:00:00 Ronald Reagan was the Teflon president, and now Cali fornia has the Teflon Governator. Schwarzenegger didn't catch nearly enough flack for the state's slow response to the Southern California wildfires, and he's not getting enough bad PR for a California budget... More About: Style , Debt , True
American teachers?underpaid by international standards
2007-11-27 00:00:00 The Economist has an interesting way to compare the relative salaries of schooolteachers in various countries?as a percentage of each nation's GDP per person, which shows how well off a teacher in that country is compared to the rest of... More About: Standards , International , American , Teachers
Bush really is like God
2007-11-27 00:00:00 While accepting the award for best female vocalist at the Country Music Awards, Carry Underwood naturally thanked the Almighty: "God has blessed with me so many wonderful things in my life, and I will spend my life wondering why," she... More About: Bush
Corporatist policies increase economic inequality. Surprise!
2007-11-26 00:00:00 The most important message in Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal is that mainstream economists have been bullshitting us about the cause-and-effect relationship between America's growing economic inequality and government policies: Inequality isn't unavoidable because of globalization or any... More About: Policies , Economic , Ality
Freedom's on the march in Japan, too
2007-11-25 00:00:00 Taking its cue from the Bush administration, the Japan ese government is creating its own tough-on-terror facade with measures such as (1) fingerprinting and photographing every foreigner who enters the country and (2) denying entry visas to famous rock groups. (I... More About: March
Garofolo on why right-wingers are right-wingers
2007-11-22 00:00:00 Here's a great excerpt from "episode 109 overtime" of Bill Maher's Real Time. MAHER: I don?t think [Democrats] are great at making the counter-argument. Clinton was great at that. He was great at saying, ?Wait a second, are you kidding?...
Top 100 war profiteers
2007-11-22 00:00:00 The Center for Public Integrity has a list of the Top 100 contractors who've benefited from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Guess who's at the top of the list? Can you imagine the apoplectic right-wing ranting if Clinton had...
An Army interrogator turns conscientious objector
2007-11-20 00:00:00 During his stint with the U.S. Army in Iraq, Joshua Casteel worked at Abu Ghraib. There he interrogated prisoners, ninety-five percent of whom turned out to be innocent, he says. Then one day the guards brought him a self-declared Saudi... More About: Gato
An America-hating general praises Iran
2007-11-18 00:00:00 Major General James Simmons, deputy commander of the multinational forces in Iraq, said that Iran appears to be honoring an informal pledge to halt the smuggling of explosives and other weapons into Iraq, helping to cut bombings nearly in half... More About: America
Bush's latest blunder in Iraq: bad for everyone (unless you're making money
2007-11-17 00:00:00 The opportunity referred to in the WashPo headline "Iraq is Wasting an Opportunity" is the current lull in violence in Iraq. The lull was brought about at great expense through the troop surge, but it's not going to last forever: This... More About: Money , Blunder , Lund
The Pakistani legacy of Osama bin Laden?s favorite American?Ronald Reagan
More articles from this author:2007-11-16 00:00:00 In the early 1980s, after the Russians invaded Afghanistan to free the Afghan people from tyranny, Ronald Reagan authorized the CIA to spend a whole lot of our money to recruit Muslim religious extremists to launch all-out guerrilla warfare against... More About: Osama Bin Laden , American , Pakistani , Ronald Reagan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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