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From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Distractions For The Gullible

May 30, 2009

How "reality" is created in 21st century America…
The aide said that guys like me (author, Ron Susskind) were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me [...]

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George Will, The AB Journal, & Truth

May 28, 2009

The Akron Beacon Journal loves them some George Will. Will's Washington Post columns appear regularly in the Beacon. Recently, the Beacon reprinted one of Will's columns on global warming that included his total distortion of research findings. Will, alleged to be an intellectual, often distorts the facts as he did in his screed, also reprinted [...]

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The Republican War On Empathy

May 27, 2009

When Republicans first declared their National War Against Empathy From the Court (NWAEFC), I found it amazingly out of touch with basic common sense. But it's Republicans we're dealing with here.
Bitter conservatives instantly attacked Obama's mention of empathy as a quality he would be looking for in a new Supreme Court Justice. Of all [...]

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"I Think People Should Be Afraid"

May 26, 2009

Updated below
From NBC's "Press the Meat", aka, "Meet the Press", this past Sunday…
The Republican Party's "idea man", Mr. Newton Gingrich…..
"Let me just say, I think people should be afraid. I think the lesson of 1993, the first time they bombed the World Trade Center, was fear is probably appropriate. I think the lesson [...]

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Memorial Day Blues

May 25, 2009

A hypocritical nation, it would seem to me, would be a nation that goes through the symbolic motions, once a year, of remembering those who have given their lives in defense of their nation…..while the rest of the year it supports and defends the reckless endangering of the lives of those very soldiers.
The most responsible [...]

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President O-bush-a

May 23, 2009

First, let me state without reservation or qualification, that having Barack Obama as President is a far superior situation for America than if John McCain, with his full-throated, neo-conservative military and foreign policy ideology, were guiding the ship of state.
That said….not only has Obama followed Bush/Cheney footprints on state secrets, transparency, and, now, indefinite [...]

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Tortured Thinking

May 22, 2009

Yesterday Obama spoke on the torture issue, Guantanamo, state secrets and national security. The speech was a mixed bag. Some very good stuff…some, not so good. Transcript here.
Why Obama rejects the torture regime of Bush/Cheney…
What's more, they (harsh interrogations, i.e. torture) undermine the rule of law. They alienate us in the world. They serve [...]

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Leaks In The Senate

May 21, 2009

After refusing to limit the interest banksters can charge credit card holders, the Senate went on to pass a more bankster-friendly credit card bill Tuesday. The bill was a lame effort, barely a wrist slap to an industry who regularly bribes our politicians with campaign cash to do it's bidding. The bill passed 90-5.
The Senate [...]

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Rumsfeld and Katrina

May 19, 2009

Read the latest revelations about Donald Rumsfeld in an eye-opening GQ piece here.
Yesterday, some of the media focused on the Bible verse-laced cover letter pictures in Defense Department Daily Briefings sent out by Donald Rumsfeld's office during the Bush/Cheney wars of choice. While those are revealing and important in their own right, it's the role [...]

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Banksters Do Own Congress

May 18, 2009

There is no apparent way for the bankster's jackboot to be removed from the neck of the American population.
Republicans, we have known for decades, will always side with the banksters when legislation bubbles to the surface in Congress. Banksters are the most important constituents Republicans have.
Ever since the days of Bill Clinton, however, [...]

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