Deficit Ceiling Kabuki–What This All Tells You About Obama
Krugthullu, as usual, right: It’s very hard to avoid the impression that three things are going on: 1. Obama really just isn’t that into Democratic priorities. He really doesn’t much care about...
View ArticleAnother “Vanilla” Economist for Obama Admin
Economist Richard Wolff assesses Obama’s newest chief economic adviser Alan Krueger and the administration’s overall approach to the country’s mass unemployment. Last week Wolff had a nice (short)...
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Obama’s Record on Civil Rights, the Road to Stasiland
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." George Orwell (c/o The Villager) This cogent Op-Ed by Jonathan Turley sums up nicely why anyone concerned with...
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Happy Halloween: Ghoulish White House cuts funding to UNESCO
UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. This is its mandate: to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and...
View ArticleObamabot vs Thinking Person: Indefinite Detention
Regarding the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) … Read the rest
View ArticleMr. Obama–Wall Street’s President
Dems: Obama Broke Pledge to Force Banks to Help Homeowners Before he took office, President Obama repeatedly promised voters and Democrats in Congress that he’d fight for changes to bankruptcy laws to...
View ArticleSanctions, Assassinations, and Allegations: Israel, the US, and Iran.
With increasingly tough (but no more politically consequential) sanctions imposed on Iran, and to date unproven allegations of an Iranian nuclear weapons program that recall the bogus threat of Saddam...
View ArticleReckless Drone Campaign Pushes US-Pakistan Relations to the Brink
UPDATE (6/10/2012): Slate has an interesting interactive graphic indicating the scope of the drone bombing campaign in Pakistan and how it has intensified under Obama here. Unfortunately, this map is...
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Transparency On Taxes But Not Government-Sanctioned Murder
A Guy Who Likes to Work in the Shadows (c/o Esquire) UPDATED 8/5/12: To fix some of the crappy prose (but reader beware! only some) The spectacle of Willard “Mitt” Romney refusing to release his taxes...
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The Trouble with Obama is America
The web is of course churning with responses reactions to the Presidential debate last night. The consensus is that Romney won by swinging into populist gear while Obama failed to show up. Matthew...
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