Obstructionism is an old though effective tactic when trying to block ideas or actions you think aren’t in your personal interest, but it’s a particularly nasty and counterproductive technique used most often by tantrum-throwing-whineybabies to show that stamping one’s feet and pounding one’s fist on the ground is SO awesome and appealing. You’d think by [...]
Archive for June, 2007
"It’s NOT fair!"
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Civics 1A
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A basic understanding of high school (even middle school) civics would underscore much of what John Dean explains in this story below. So why are we having to go through civics class again? Probably because our government hasn’t been playing by the rules for a while and no one’s been calling fouls properly. I guess [...]
Glenn Greenwald
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Our rotted press corps, a division of “Camp Victory”No matter how many times it results in false reporting, our press corps continues to base their “war reporting” on unverified military and government claims. Glenn Greenwald
Jun. 30, 2007 | On June 22, the BBC — under the headline: ‘Al-Qaeda gunmen’ killed in Iraq” — reported, along [...]
If there’s any good news for the White House or it…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If there’s any good news for the White House or its allies in the latest CBS News poll, it’s hiding well. (via Atrios)
More Americans than ever before, 77 percent, say the war is going badly, up from 66 percent just two months ago. Nearly half, 47 percent, say it’s going very badly.
While the springtime [...]
Para todo del mundo
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Living in Central Texas, I hear these sentiments often and often spoken just like they’re written here. I’m not exactly clear on why folks are so resentful of learning or being exposed to different languages themselves when most people in European countries are so fluent in many languages from a very early age. Being multilingual [...]
Ugly Babies
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Stare Decisis v. Ugly Babies By Scarecrow on Fri Jun 29, 2007 at 05:15 am
During their confirmation hearings, Justices Roberts and Alito told Judiciary Committee members how much they respected stare decisis, the principle that past Supreme Court decisions would be honored and not overruled without compelling reasons to do so. These assurances were part [...]
Dig!
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No one captures it better than Digby
But all these people are so much better than the non-sequitor dribbling absurdists on the Republican side that every time I see them I feel a little bit better about the future. If any of the Dem contenders make it, we will have a president who speaks normal [...]
I would like to officially welcome you to Watergate…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I would like to officially welcome you to Watergate…
Sidney Blumenthal
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The imperial vice presidency
New details about his secret mission to expand the power of the president show that Cheney, at the end of his career, refuses to loosen his grip. By Sidney Blumenthal
Jun. 28, 2007 | When Huey P. Long left the governorship of Louisiana in 1936 to become a U.S. senator, he filled the [...]
Young Americans Are Leaning Left, New Poll Finds …
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Young Americans Are Leaning Left, New Poll Finds By ADAM NAGOURNEY and MEGAN THEE
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=9b320c7f51ed7763cb2f29d5854e50b2c12ba08b
Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage, according to a New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll. The poll also found that [...]
