The issue of the drone war and the public reception to it, particularly among progressives, demonstrates both the strength and failings of that movement. The hallmark test of legitimacy for any body that espouses political opinion is and must be consis…
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DeSmogBlog: Video of Keystone XL Tar Sands Protesters Arrested At The White House
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Usually the best way to solve a neighborly spat is to march right up to the door and talk it out, face-to-face. However, if said neighbor happens to be away a lot and …
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Obama joins other leaders who have lost their way
Governments of developed countries have lost their way. They do not understand the problems facing their economies, and have allowed right wing economic ideologues to stampede them into premature and potentially catastrophic deficit slashing when the a…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Who will win: Mitt Romney or Rick Perry? Ask the Cheese Doctor
If Obama wants to know which of these two men he will be facing in the 2012 election, he could find the answer from a French-born anthropologist who could be called the Cheese Doctor.Jack Hitt in the New York Times describes a lengthy interview he had …
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Between Rhetoric & Reality
In a preview of the jobs speech he will deliver on Thursday to Congress, President Obama told a Labour Day rally in Detroit that there are numerous roads and bridges that need rebuilding in the U.S., and many construction workers … Continue reading →
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Why isn’t Wall St. in jail? And come to think of it, why isn’t Obama?
I don’t usually repost other people’s writings, but this article is too hard-hitting and important to pass up. If we want to understand better what is wrong with the economy and politics, this sheds more than a little light, and confirms th…
Continue reading350 or bust: Pipeline Protestors to Obama: This Is Our Environmental Impact Statement
From TPM.com, Why Far-Off Canadian Tar Sands Have Become Make-or-Break Issue For Obama With Enviros: For six days and counting now, hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the White House to demand President Obama intervene and stop the constructi…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Breaking: State Department Calls Keystone XL Environmental Impact "Limited," Ignoring Evidence
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The State Department just released their Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The 27-page document does not flag any significant en…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Rachel Maddow on Letterman
Towards the end of the interview, after expressing utter dismay at the relentless barrage of criticism that’s levelled against Barack Obama, Dave asks: “I would like to know, how would we be better off, how would our lives be now … Continue reading →
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Answer to the Tea Party No-Taxes Pledge
The world had just watched in befuddlement as the mighty USA has reeled from the impact on its governance of a large group of members of Congress who have united in a pledge placed before them by Grover Norquist.Norquist’s claim to fame is his mission …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Obama and the Small Victories
The Republican Teabaggers hijacked his 50th birthday party. The bad news keeps on coming.We’re watching him getting greyer by the day.He’s under attack from the savage right, and the racial dog whistle blowers of the Fox Nation.The disappoint…
Continue readingMore Onion than the Onion. Fox News reports on black hip hop birthday for Obama.
It’s been amusing, if not a little sad, to see the right wing trying to outdo each other criticizing Obama for having a birthday party. They’re all pissed but none more so than Fox News. There were African American people at the party! And no jobs were created. Can you hear the dog whistle? Be . . . → Read More: More Onion than the Onion. Fox News reports on black hip hop birthday for Obama.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Three Qualities Obama Lacks – Convictions, Courage and Strength
In just over 15-months Americans will choose their next president. At this point Barack Obama’s future hinges on the Republicans fielding a really terrible candidate, somebody like Michelle Bachmann. In other words, Obama will likely …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Obama and the Satan Sandwich
Well I see the ghastly game is finally over, and many progressives are accusing Obama of caving in to the fanatical teabaggers. Settling for a Satan Sandwich.Democrats had no shortage of colorful phrases in wake of the deal. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo….
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln Respond to Obama’s Capitulation
What startled visitors at Mount Rushmore this morning.
Continue readingLaw is Cool: Credit rating agencies as courts of international finance
As I am writing this, President Obama announced a deal to avoid default on US government debt. If lawyers think in terms of courts, then what would be the legal consequences of the US default? While the legal issues of government’s failure to pay its debt to domestic lenders are unique and complex, the default […]
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Obama and the Teabagger Taliban
It’s a scary and surrealistic spectacle. The most powerful nation on earth being held hostage by a group of fanatical teabaggers, who are dragging the President, the country, and the global economy towards the abyss. And acting like the Taliban.”We now…
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Debt Ceiling Debate is Moot: USG Owes More Dollars than in Existence
Image by Images_of_Money The current debate in Washington as to whether or not and under what conditions to raise the debt-ceiling has for the past week dominated global news coverage and the public mind. Absent from the debate and mainstream coverage is a discussion of the debt limit in the
Continue readingAmericans can’t seem to apply Greek style austerity measures to stave off default, while Republicans flush their country down the toilet
If I was in U.S. House Speaker John A. Boehner’s shoes I would have agreed to President Obama’s terms in raising the country’s debt ceiling.Why? Well I think it’s because the proposals which Mr. Obama presented to Mr. Boehner were actually very…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Marriage Equality, Obama, Jurisdiction
Which of these sounds like a true leader, a president one can get behind: the man who strongly and emphatically declares what he thinks is morally right and acts accordingly, or the man who tries to make enough small improvements in the right direction…
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