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From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Justice Sacrificed For The Obama Agenda

June 18, 2009

I've been frustrated with President Obama's resistance to investigate and prosecute the numerous war crimes and disgraceful violations of national and international law by the Bush/Cheney administration. Obama's "looking forward" justification for this resistance, however, is akin to looking straight ahead after running over a person in the street. Wouldn't want to "look back"…..simply too [...]

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Narcissistic Nationalism

June 17, 2009

Referring to American exceptionalism-believing neo-cons, Digby riffs…. These people really believe that the way to keep America on top is to behave like a crazed, hysterical bully lashing out at every slight and insisting that everyone acknowledge our moral superiority even though it is patently untrue. Exceptionalism means never having to say you're sorry. Although [...]

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Choices & Competition

June 15, 2009

Here's a link to update this post….it's a must read.From yesterday's Face the Nation on CBS with Bob Schieffer…. Schieffer countered (Senator Mitch) McConnell's(R-KY) contention that the Obama plan would choose (or deny) which treatments a covered individual may get; the White House is not proposing any kind of rationing board, he said. He also [...]

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A Review Of Recent Right Wing Violence

June 13, 2009

Paul Krugman on Thursday…. Today, as in the early years of the Clinton administration but to an even greater extent, right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment.….. And at this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased. [...]

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What We Need To Know

June 12, 2009

While extremists dominate our broader public discourse with some of the craziest sh*t I've ever heard….the most important issues of the day are being decided quietly, behind the scenes, without much media coverage or discussion. Carrie Prejean, former Miss Someone, was in the "news" again yesterday, not because any important news had been made, but [...]

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The Endless Spin Cycle

June 11, 2009

Scanning the insanity…. Lest a new earworm begins gestating in the tone deaf ears of corporate media slugs and conservative "faith basers"….. NY Times… ….President Obama’s agenda, ambitious as it may be, is responsible for only a sliver of the deficits, despite what many of his Republican critics are saying.….. About 7 percent (of the [...]

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U.S. Media: Terrorist Sympathizers?

June 10, 2009

I've already blogged about the anti-abortion, domestic terrorism groups in the United States and how terrorist acts by those groups are defended by a radical minority of devoutly religious evangelicals, and a handful of media jihadist-apologists. Scott Roeder, the domestic terrorist, after years of domestic terrorist activity, pre-meditatively stalked, then assassinated Dr. Tiller in Kansas, [...]

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I Asked, He Told

June 9, 2009

From yesterday's Washington Post…. The Supreme Court today declined to hear a constitutional challenge to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning openly gay people from serving in the U.S. military, a move that could effectively leave it to the Obama administration to resolve the long-controversial issue. …… In the "don't ask, don't tell" [...]

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"Reporting" Dishonestly

June 8, 2009

Virtually all sides now agree that Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation as the next Supreme Court Justice is all but a lock. All sides. Senate Republicans are not entirely self-destructive, even though at times one wonders. Senate Republicans understand the political suicide they would be carrying out by voting against the first Latino to be nominated [...]

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Pride In The President, Part 2

June 7, 2009

Today I continue with Part 2 of my appraisal of President Obama's speech from Cairo, Egypt…. To those Muslims in Hamas, Hizbollah, al-Qaeda, or Iran,…Obama spoke honestly and directly about Israel… Six million Jews were killed – more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful. Threatening [...]

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