Category: Politics & World Affairs
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Whatever you are – white, black, Jewish, Indian, woman or a stamp collector, George Allen has an insult for you. He also has a weasely explanation for his loose lips. Play the game and see how the George Allen Insult Generator treats you. (I checked it out twice – there are more than one insult…
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I said he is a mindless brute, didn’t I ? Michael Kingsley says it better. "It was, I believe, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) who first made the excellent, bitter and terribly unfair joke about conservatives who believe in a right to life that begins at conception and ends at birth. This joke has been adapted…
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Fearless truth teller and Bush nemesis, Maureen Dowd hits the nail on its head again regarding Bush-Cheney’s mind boggling hypocrisy and disregard for the truth. She comments on the spurious bill of goods that Pakistani president Parvez Musharraf has sold to the US since 9/11/2001 and the wilful ignorance with which the Bush adminstration has…
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To all the spineless Dems who have been tongue tied and clueless on how to engage the Bush administration on Iraq, here is a lesson from the master. See also the transcript of the finger wagging, eyes flashing, vein bulging, in your face interview that Bill Clinton gave to Fox News’ Chris Wallace who asked him…
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Our Commander in Chief doesn’t get it – or he is an exceptionally adept liar. The invasion / occupation of Iraq has become a nightmare for Iraqi citizens (nearly 5000 dead between June and August of this year) and for the confused and dispirited US troops who no longer believe that Iraq is a legitimate and…
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Subtitled: There’s a reason liberals hate Democrats. More on the US/Chavez drama at the UN: Democrats warn Chavez: Don’t bash Bush. Charles Rangle, a Democrat from New York, had a few choice words for the Venezuelan President: You don’t come into my country; you don’t come into my congressional district and you don’t condemn my president.…
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Senator George Allen, R – VA, may harbor more unsavory prejudices than his now famous "macaca" remark would suggest. Hurling a racial epithet at a dark skinned young American of Indian origin shows Allen’s contempt for the heritage of others. But the latest revelations about the Allen family’s efforts at denying its Jewish roots illustrates…
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The annual UN General Assembly Session is under way in New York. World leaders, possessing varying degrees of power and reputation gather once a year, presumably to discuss solutions to world problems. Instead, big egos and small minds jockey on the world stage armed with grandiose postures and hot air. It is a bit like…
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Ross Terrill in the New York Times today gives an overwiew of the changing nature of China, both politically and economically: China’s new economy will surely experience setbacks. But eventually, with its emerging middle-class society, it will refashion the old politics. In that sense China’s economic boom will both fail and succeed. As Leninism-plus-consumerism it…
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Ron Suskind: Once you threaten someone’s children there’s pretty much nowhere else to go in terms of building the kind of relationship where they at some point tell you things that you really need to hear. I’m not sure, actually, if the quotation is more powerful in context: One of the dark moments in the…
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Names – official monikers as well as nicknames, are likely to play a key role in the November elections in Texas. Two of the four major candidates running for the office of Texas governor asked that their nicknames be on the official ballot. One was partially granted his wish and other was denied. Singer and…
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Cognizant of the tragedy and atrocities of WWII, I am generally reluctant to draw comparisons with Hitler era tactics to make a point about Bush and the neo-cons. Right wing politicians and their media lackeys on the other hand, have little compunction in going back in history to search out false analogies to discredit their critics.…
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With a discussion of partisanship going on at BL’s LS Reports, and with classes at the U of M starting on Tuesday and me avoiding my Contracts and Torts casebooks, now strikes me as a good time to post about politics — especially the two-party "us or them" system that qualifies as a political system…
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Houston Chronicle’s editorial writer, Cragg Hines neatly wraps up and reinforces what I said in my recent post, Trains, Planes and Taxi Cabs. Those of us who have paid attention, saw through Bush’s Mesopotamian misanthropy from the get-go. But will the Bush propaganda machine manage once again to sell the "Saddam – Osama – terrorism bridge…
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