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Second Amendment Rights Apparently Don’t Apply Around Sarah Palin
Post Date: 2011-01-31 19:30:20 by Brian S
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Dear Editor: On Monday evening Jan. 24, Sarah Palin returned to her public speaking tour with a fundraising speech for a conservative Christian school in Lubbock, Texas. For anywhere from $250 to $2,500 a ticket, over 1,000 Texans listened to Palin deliver her version of the Sermon on the Mount. Her staff enforced what the local press called “tight security.” Despite a Texas law that forbids the banning of concealed handguns held by Texas permit-holders in public venues, all members of the audience had to bring a photo ID, pass through metal detectors, and anyone who tried to bring in a weapon, permit or not, was subject to arrest. Although media were barred from the event, it ...

Israel's Demand For Allegiance To A "Jewish," "Democratic" State Belie Open Society Claim
Post Date: 2011-01-31 19:09:19 by Brian S
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"Israel appears to be sliding down a slippery slope away from the very "Jewish" and "democratic" values it claims it embodies. Within Israel, there are many courageous voices rising in opposition. Sadly, within the organized American Jewish community there is largely silence." Recent developments in Israel indicate a steady movement away from the free and open society it proclaims itself to be.In October, the Israeli cabinet approved a draft amendment to the country's citizenship law that calls for non-Jews seeking to become citizens to pledge loyalty to Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state."The vote was 22 to 8, with the five ...

Limited Options in the Face of Turmoil
Post Date: 2011-01-31 11:34:15 by Brian S
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Across the Middle East, dramatic events have been unfolding in rapid-fire succession, confounding U.S. policy makers. First, Tunisia erupted in mass protest leading to the abdication of that country's president and the dissolution of its ruling party. While developments there were fermenting and still unresolved, attention was diverted to al Jazeera's much hyped release of leaked notes recording conversations between Palestinian negotiators and their American and Israeli counterparts. As revelations go, the "Palestine Papers," as they were marketed, didn't amount to much. However, as an effectively orchestrated and well-timed political attack designed for maximum ...

The Egyptian Masses Won't Play Ally To Israel
Post Date: 2011-01-30 21:53:47 by Brian S
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As long as the masses in Egypt and in the entire Arab world continue seeing the images of tyranny and violence from the occupied territories, Israel will not be able to be accepted, even it is acceptable to a few regimes. By Gideon Levy Three or four days ago, Egypt was still in our hands. The army of pundits, including our top expert on Egypt, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, said that "everything is under control," that Cairo is not Tunis and that Mubarak is strong. Ben-Eliezer said that he had spoken on the phone with a senior Egyptian official, and he assured him that there's nothing to worry about. You can count on Fuad and Hosni, both about to become has-beens. ...

Why senators are avoiding the Tea Party Caucus
Post Date: 2011-01-30 20:59:51 by Ferret Mike
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Some tea party favorites stayed away from the Thursday's meeting of the new Senate Tea Party Caucus, as newly elected Republicans try to define themselves in Washington. Atlanta The reluctance of tea party favorites like Sen. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida and Sen. Ron Johnson (R) of Wisconsin to join a new Senate Tea Party Caucus points to the difficulty some incoming Republicans face in adjusting to the political realities of the Beltway while retaining the tea party bona fides they earned on the campaign trail. Last year's House Tea Party Caucus had 50 members – this year's rolls haven't been released yet – but only four senators appeared before a throng of tea ...

The Neocons Have Lost It
Post Date: 2011-01-30 13:29:05 by Brian S
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Since I triumphantly declared that at last, the neocon Hitler-Stalin pact moment had arrived, the neocons have rushed headlong into insisting that the global democratic revolution lives.  Each example is just such a spectacle to behold in itself that they must be listed one by one: Max Boot: “We’re all neocons now.” One is left speechless.  Is the idea that a Straussian divination of the speeches of Hassan al-Banna shows his secret purpose to have been to promulgate the wit and wisdom of Partisan Review? Michael Ledeen makes a convoluted argument for a completely nonsensical premise – that we must re-engineer the Green Revolution in Iran, and then all will be ...

Fear Extreme Islamists in the Arab World? Blame Washington
Post Date: 2011-01-29 19:26:48 by Brian S
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In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. questioned US military interventions against progressive movements in the Third World by invoking a JFK quote: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Were he alive to witness the last three decades of US foreign policy, King might update that quote by noting: "Those who make secular revolution impossible will make extreme Islamist revolution inevitable."For decades beginning during the Cold War, US policy in the Islamic world has been aimed at suppressing secular reformist and leftist movements. Beginning with the CIA-engineered coup against a secular democratic ...

Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution?
Post Date: 2011-01-27 13:35:05 by Brian S
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North Africa and the Global Political Awakening, Part 1 Global Research, January 27, 2011 For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive... The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination... The worldwide yearning for human dignity is the central challenge inherent in the phenomenon of global political awakening... That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing... The nearly universal access to radio, ...

Exclusive: US Empire Will Fall Due To Lack Of Faith, Not Finances Or War, Author Warns [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-01-27 12:55:52 by Brian S
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As many in the American empire longingly talk of "recovery" from the most devastating economic condition since the Great Depression, others have begun thinking in a very different direction, urging fellow citizens to prepare for the worst. Dmitry Orlov, author of "Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects," is one of the latter. Soon, he told Raw Story in an exclusive interview, Americans will "stop expecting anything of Washington," turning the US into more of a "banana republic" than a super power. Orlov, who witnessed the Soviet Union's collapse from within, lamented that the American empire's condition is so severe ...

CBO Forecast: Frightening Fodder For Both Parties
Post Date: 2011-01-26 15:11:40 by Brian S
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The big headline number from Wednesday’s Congressional Budget Office report is a jolting shot of bad news: a budget deficit this fiscal year of close to $1.5 trillion, or 9.8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). That’s nearly as big as 2009’s shortfall, which was the highest in nearly 65 years. The $1.5 trillion deficit would be a nominal record, but not quite as big as the 2009 deficit when measured as a percentage of the economy. Story: CBO: U.S. budget deficit to hit $1.5 trillion More bad news: CBO’s forecasters don’t see employment returning to anything like normal before 2016. Look inside the 190-page report and you’ll find facts, figures ...

Is America Rubberstamping Apartheid In Palestine?
Post Date: 2011-01-26 12:35:33 by Brian S
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“More and more, Americans from all walks of life are talking about Israel’s influence in Washington, looking for someone to blame. Americans are angry, feeling powerless, victimized by their own government. Some of that blame takes the form of Antisemitism, again rearing its ugly head, but most of it is expressed in healthy skepticism, skepticism of a government showing signs of having been bought. “Bought” is a harsh word but no other word applies, not anymore.  There is no other explanation, not for the policies we are seeing, policies steeped in bias, policies based on support of apartheid, of continual violations of human rights, of ...

Next To Republicans, Obama Is Presidential
Post Date: 2011-01-26 12:25:59 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Democrats sat with Republicans for President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, but a wide gulf still separates the two parties. Despite the superficial one-night show of unity by politicians, the nation is not united. America is facing its greatest crisis of confidence in decades, and Washington isn’t helping. The two political parties fundamentally disagree about America’s problems, and what Washington should do to solve them. Democrats continue to believe that government has a strong part to play in promoting the general welfare and helping to make America more competitive. Republicans continue to insist that ...

Americans Won't Buy The Tea Party's Free Market Snake Oil
Post Date: 2011-01-26 12:23:53 by Brian S
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In the topsy-turvy, Alice-in-Wonderland alternative universe of the tea party and its Republican toadies, small-government and free-market economic policy will save the nation from disaster. In fact, as thinking Americans know full well, the current economic crisis is largely due to the unmitigated greed of Wall Street banks and American homeowners, abetted for years by the "free market" nonsense that Reps. Paul Ryan and Michelle Bachmann continue to foist on the public. When the history of this era is written, it will be clear that the Obama administration's aggressive action saved the nation from a fate far worse than the current recession.

Obama Calls Deficit Hawks’ Bluff
Post Date: 2011-01-26 11:56:00 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – In a skillful speech that aggressively promoted his own agenda while disarming Republican opposition, President Obama called the deficit hawks’ bluff in his State of the Union speech. He left not one, but two Republican responders flailing helplessly about an issue Main Street has trouble grasping – our supposedly overwhelming mountain of debt. Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the official responder, sat in a dark and lonely hearing room talking a mile a minute about a “fiscal crisis” that no one else can detect. Ryan bewailed “the crushing burden of debt” that is not visibly crushing anyone with high interest rates, runaway inflation ...

The Politics of Evasion (Ignoring the debt)
Post Date: 2011-01-26 11:12:50 by go65
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If you were a visitor from Mars, watching tonight’s State of the Union address and Paul Ryan’s Republican response, you would have no reason to think that the looming insolvency of our entitlement system lies at the heart of the economic challenges facing the United States over the next two decades. From President Obama, we heard a reasonably eloquent case for center-left technocracy and industrial policy, punctuated by a few bipartisan flourishes, in which the entitlement issue felt like an afterthought: He took note of the problem, thanked his own fiscal commission for their work without endorsing any of their recommendations, made general, detail-free pledges to keep Medicare ...

Obama’s Speech Puts GOP In A Corner
Post Date: 2011-01-26 10:57:27 by go65
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President Obama put Republicans in something of a box last night. He oozed optimism, telling Americans in the last moments of his speech that, “From the earliest days of our founding, America has been the story of ordinary people who dare to dream. That’s how we win the future.” http://abcn.ws/ffIYcE On the other hand, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., who gave the Republican response and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., who delivered what was billed as the Tea Party rebuttal, both focused on the negative -- crushing deficit, the debt crisis, the ballooning size of government. “No economy can sustain such high levels of debt and taxation. The next generation will inherit a ...

A Tribute to Olbermann: Why He Is Different From the Pundits at Fox News
Post Date: 2011-01-24 12:08:44 by Ferret Mike
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Black and white is easy; nuance is hard. Which is why it's much easier to just lump media outlets and personalities into simple boxes: left v. right, or partisan v. objective, for example. So if you want to play that game, it's easy to dismiss Keith Olbermann, who broadcast his final episode of Countdown on MSNBC Friday. It's simple to dash off a hack piece (like this one in the Daily Beast, which revealed its simple-minded bona fides by invoking the right's favorite jab at Olbermann: he used to work in -- gasp! -- sports) that lumps Olbermann in with Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, as if they all do the same thing just because they are all loud and aggressive. I know nuance ...

Seven Reasons Why The GOP Faces An Uphill Battle To Defeat Obama
Post Date: 2011-01-23 18:09:10 by Brian S
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President Obama’s chances of winning a second term have significantly improved over the past couple of months. The election is a long way off, but the strategy sessions for Obama’s reelection are already under way. Some of the president’s senior aides, including David Axelrod, will soon be leaving Washington for Chicago to focus on one thing: making Obama a two-term president. Obama’s poll numbers have been on the rise since Republicans won 63 seats in the House and six in the Senate last November. Perhaps more importantly, Obama’s moves to distance himself from the liberal wing of his party come as 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls are moving to the right ...

Poverty and Recovery
Post Date: 2011-01-23 10:56:59 by go65
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In 2008, the first year of the Great Recession, the number of Americans living in poverty rose by 1.7 million to nearly 47.5 million. While hugely painful, that rise wasn’t surprising given the unraveling economy. What is surprising is that recent census data show that those poverty numbers held steady in 2009, even though job loss worsened significantly that year. Clearly, the sheer scale of poverty — 15.7 percent of the country’s population — is unacceptable. But to keep millions more Americans from falling into poverty during a deep recession is a genuine accomplishment that holds a vital lesson: the safety net, fortified by stimulus, staved off an even more damaging ...

I'm declaring February a Palin-free month. Join me!
Post Date: 2011-01-21 23:34:10 by Ferret Mike
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Though it is embarrassing to admit this in public, I can no longer hide the truth. I have a Sarah Palin problem. I have written about her in 42 columns since Sen. John McCain picked her as his vice-presidential running mate in 2008. I've mentioned her in dozens more blog posts, Web chats, and TV and radio appearances. I feel powerless to control my obsession, even though it cheapens and demeans me. But today is the first day of the rest of my life. And so, I hereby pledge that, beginning on Feb. 1, 2011, I will not mention Sarah Palin -- in print, online or on television -- for one month. Furthermore, I call on others in the news media to join me in this pledge of a Palin-free ...

Wave Goodbye To Confederate Flag's Influence On Virginia's Identity?
Post Date: 2011-01-21 12:37:50 by Brian S
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If the Sons of Confederate Veterans were looking to do prominent Virginia Republicans a favor, they couldn't have done much better than slam them in as public a forum as possible. Which they did: The Sons held a D.C. news conference Tuesday - one day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day - to attack Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and former senator George Allen for their insufficient fealty to Virginia's Confederate heritage. Their version of it, anyway. McDonnell and Allen, said Michael Rose, the group's top official in the commonwealth, "have ignored, denied and even insulted our Virginia history and heritage." It was "Undoubtedly, A Welcomed Criticism," as Too ...

GOP Wants Palin To “Sit Down And Shut Up”
Post Date: 2011-01-20 14:47:11 by Brian S
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On Tuesday, a remarkable thing happened among the possible contenders for the Republican presidential nomination: Newt Gingrich warned Sarah Palin to be more careful about her incendiary rhetoric. Yep, you read that right. Newt Gingrich, the king of incendiary rhetoric, champion of rhetorical fireballs, the emperor of verbal excess, cautioned Palin about watching her words. Watch him, interviewed by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: That’s just one more sign of how worried Republican leaders are about the prospect of a Palin presidential run. Her negatives are climbing; a recent poll gives her an unfavorable rating of 53 percent, the highest disapproval she has scored since John ...

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Post Date: 2011-01-19 13:32:18 by go65
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The Myth Of 'American Exceptionalism' Implodes
Post Date: 2011-01-18 19:42:27 by Brian S
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Until the 1970s, US capitalism shared its spoils with American workers. But since 2008, it has made them pay for its failures Richard Wolff guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 18 January 2011 13.00 GMT larger | smaller Article history A homeless encampment known as Tent City, in Sacramento, California, in 2009. Since the 1970s, real wages stopped growing and the gap between rich and poor expanded as the US economy slowed down after decades of growth. Photograph: Rich Pedroncelli/AP One aspect of "American exceptionalism" was always economic. US workers, so the story went, enjoyed a rising level of real wages that afforded their families a rising ...

President Barak Obama: Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System
Post Date: 2011-01-18 11:37:25 by Brian S
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For two centuries, America's free market has not only been the source of dazzling ideas and path-breaking products, it has also been the greatest force for prosperity the world has ever known. That vibrant entrepreneurialism is the key to our continued global leadership and the success of our people. But throughout our history, one of the reasons the free market has worked is that we have sought the proper balance. We have preserved freedom of commerce while applying those rules and regulations necessary to protect the public against threats to our health and safety and to safeguard people and businesses from abuse. From child labor laws to the Clean Air Act to our most recent ...

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