Category: Politics & World Affairs
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In just the past week, I wrote about the overcrowded and sometimes cruel prison system in the US and Joe took President Obama to task for not providing a serious answer to the question of legalization of marijuana. It is important to note that one of the principal reasons for the high rate of incarceration in our country is that…
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Over at Hullabaloo, Dday posts a video of President Obama' s recent town hall, in which the President "responds" to a question about the economic consequences of marijuana legalization. (I would embed the video here, but I'm not internet-savvy enough to pull that off.) Basically, Obama says that he's answering a bunch of questions based…
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Ever since the Indian government established full diplomatic relations with the state of Israel in 1992, a couple of ideas, one historic and the other rooted in the present, have drawn the two countries into developing close, friendly ties. The first, the peaceful and harmonious history of Indian Jews is indeed a cause of pride and celebration for both countries. But the second reason that has strengthened…
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Not a chance.
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If this report turns out to be accurate, I don't see how even the faint hearted Obama administration can avoid seeking prosecution for war crimes … or at least a thorough investigation. (Unless the Obamaites too are using the same killing outfit?) Journalist Seymour Hersh speaking at the University of Minnesota: At a “Great Conversations” event…
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Just over a month ago George W. Bush, our most incompetent president in recent memory became a private citizen. Mr. and Mrs. Bush have moved to their new home in an upscale neighborhood of Dallas. The transition from being the most powerful man on earth to a Texas suburbanite must take some work. I was wondering what…
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Who could have known that I would agree with the mysterious Fafblog! author — or in this case, specifically the Medium Lobster — on the subject of Israeli self-defense? I know, it seems unlikely. Still, here we are. A lesser nation might have wavered in the face of a merciless Palestinian onslaught of pleading and…
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Just in time for Presidents Day, C-Span has surveyed 65 historians for their opinion of American presidents. Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt top the list at #1, 2 and 3 respectively. James Buchanan ranks last. Predictably enough, George W. Bush is among the ten worst, coming in at # 36. That makes him the seventh worst president to…
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Digby beats the drum in boring fashion about the impending "entitlement reform" agenda. Maybe I'd feel differently if I read Hullabaloo every day, but as it is I certainly don't find the rant to be boring. Incidentally, the drum I feel myself wanting to beat in boring fashion is the one about the impending failure…
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Krugman: What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and nutrition, undermines schools, but offers a $15,000 bonus to affluent people who flip their houses? A proud centrist. For that is what the senators who ended up calling the tune on the stimulus bill…
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The rudderless and demoralized GOP is thrashing around helplessly, searching for the coherent and authoritative voice of a national spokesperson. So far three hefty bald men have obliged. Two are unelected motor mouths and another has been out of power for mere two weeks and cannot keep his mouth shut. Worrisome though it may be for Republican office holders, I am deriving some vindictive pleasure in seeing…
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Were you like me, beginning to despair over some of the recent cabinet picks by President Obama? After promising change and the overhaul of the entrenched insider culture of lobbyists and old pols in Washington, his choice seemed to rely heavily on the same old, same old players of the established ruling class. I am disappointed…
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