Bob Herbert is retiring after writing a column for the NY Times for 18 years. The entire column should be read, but here are a few choice quotes: So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, this time in Libya, while simultaneously demolishing school budgets, closing libraries, laying off teachers and […]
© Mike Luckovich While I support the intervention in Libya, and I particularly approve of the fact that it is authorized by the UN and the Arab League, I still think Obama did a full flop on it.
Glenn Greenwald hits the ironic nail on the head when he points out that the US Justice Department has a double standard for dealing with leaks of classified information. On one hand there is Bradley Manning, rotting in solitary confinement, and Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, who some US politicians say should be assassinated. On the […]
The new president of the Marshall Islands has a problem on his hands. The rising global temperature is causing sea levels to rise, which threatens to obliterate his country. Which is a real downer. His solution is unorthodox. By executive order, he has legalized the use of cocaine, “the real thing, uncut and pure, the […]
© Lee Judge Of course, we only attack countries that have oil.
You might know the term “Flippin’ the bird”, but I want to call this “Flippin’ the Newt”: Newt Gingrich on March 7, on what he would do in Libya: Exercise a no-fly zone this evening, communicate to the Libyan military that Gadhafi was gone and that the sooner they switch sides, the more like they […]
© Matt Wuerker Isn’t Congress supposed to declare war? Why did this stop happening?
Yesterday, John McCain appeared on the CBS morning show and called for arming the rebels in Libya who are fighting against Moammar Gadhafi. But what he really did was dish up a triple helping of hypocrisy and irony. McCain twice called for the ouster of Gadhafi because the Libyan dictator has “American blood on his […]
“They said the radioactive plume came here today. Just be happy that something traveled 5,000 miles across the Pacific and for once it wasn’t your job.” – Bill Maher “President Obama told Americans not to worry about the radiation from Japan — as he left for South America.” – Jay Leno “We will always find […]
The way Republicans talk about it, you’d think health care reform was the black plague. © Tom Toles I’m noticing a new tactic, however. Instead of trying to repeal health care reform outright, they instead are trying to eliminate the individual mandate. What they don’t tell you is that without universal health insurance, costs will […]
When did we stop being the good guys? This is the kind of thing we used to denounce communist dictatorships for doing. Abe Mashal is a 31-year-old man who lives in a suburb of Chicago. He’s a veteran — an honorably discharged ex-Marine. Married, with kids. Owns his own business. Fairly normal in most respects […]
Right now, the biggest issue for voters is the economy, and recent polls have shown that voters are becoming increasingly in favor of allowing gays to marry. But that doesn’t matter in Iowa, which seems to have gotten stuck in the politics of the last century. The Iowa caucuses are the first test of the […]
© Stuart Carlson As John Steinbeck is purported to have said, Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. That’s the only reason I can see why people in the US continue to vote against their own interests.
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