Archive for December, 2009
Condi’s Incompetence Allows Nisoor Square Blackwater Guards To Walk Free
AP has the story. (I might post on this again over the weekend.) Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Walking On Water: Persistence Of Vision
I’m not a great one for year-end lists, and Looking Back (sagely or otherwise) at The Year That Was. But I thought I’d share this reflection. The biggest political story of the year, I think, should have been the huge gulf between the Obama we were sold (Obama-who-walks-on-water) and the Obama we find we actually [...]
American Intelligence: An Oxymoron?
The AP has just put out a story that’s literally unbelievable: A man tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu last month carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe that could have caused an explosion in a case bearing chilling similarities to the terrorist plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials told The [...]
The Entirely Fictitious “What Can We Do?” Defense
Here’s some food for thought: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will force a vote on President Barack Obama‘s nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration when the Senate reconvenes in three weeks. Reid’s announcement Tuesday that he will file a motion for cloture, a procedural step to limit debate and lead to a roll-call vote, [...]
The Chilling New Threat From Iran
The latest news out of Iran leaves me no choice but to move into the camp of John Bolton and John “Bomb-bomb-Iran” McCain, and urge immediate military action against this rogue regime before it is too late. And this is not about their nuclear ambitions, but something much more frightening. In retrospect, the nuclear nonsense [...]
Super-sized Epiphany
If anyone is compiling a list of the stupidest statements emitted by politicians in 2009, Representative Peter King from New York has come knocking with this late entry: 100 percent of the Islamic terrorists are Muslim… That would have to qualify as an epiphany of giant proportions. (This clown, incidentally, is the Ranking Member on [...]
True Love (And Congress)
It’s okay. We’re still a family blog. The headline does not refer to sexual congress (even if the content of the post — about no-longer-Sir Allen Stanford, and his relationships with important people in Congress — does call for a nullus). True love is so touching, especially in Congress: Just hours after federal agents charged [...]
Calling Out Republicans For Hypocrisy
In the time of Bush, Republicans were recklessly profligate with new spending, and blithely unconcerned with financing that spending. That’s why one of the most enduring footprints Bush left for posterity as he trampled the economy is the slew of records he set with the national debt. Records like “Largest increase in a single year’ [...]
Don’t Write About Stocks If You Don’t Understand the Market
In a post titled “Health Insurance Industry Registers Its Disapproval Of Senate Health Care Bill”, Faiz Shakir of Think Progress writes: In the New York Times today, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman writes in defense of the Senate health care bill. “[F]or all its flaws and limitations, it’s a great achievement,” he says. “It will [...]
Amazing Coincidence
We learned on Tuesday that Republicans had agreed to move up the final vote on the healthcare bill from late tonight to early this morning. (And, of course, the vote has now been duly held, and the Senate has passed the bill, hallelujah, etc.) Note that Republicans did not offer to move up last night’s [...]