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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
A Campaign For War With Iran Begins
Post Date: 2010-08-15 19:43:46 by Brian S
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If neocons can't get Obama to attack Iran, they are creating a narrative so the next Republican president will By Trita Parsi Salon Obama administration officials, as well as U.S. lawmakers and European diplomats, passionately made the argument this spring that tough sanctions on Iran were necessary to avoid war. But contrary to their predictions, the drumbeat for war -- particularly from Israel – has only increased since the U.N. Security Council adopted a new resolution against Tehran in June. The latest in this crescendo of voices is Jeffrey Goldberg’s article in the Atlantic, "Point of No Return." As the title suggests, it essentially makes the ...
A Sin and a Shame
Post Date: 2010-08-15 06:53:05 by lucysmom
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The treatment of workers by American corporations has been worse — far more treacherous — than most of the population realizes. There was no need for so many men and women to be forced out of their jobs in the downturn known as the great recession. Many of those workers were cashiered for no reason other than outright greed by corporate managers. And that cruel, irresponsible, shortsighted policy has resulted in widespread human suffering and is doing great harm to the economy. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Andrew Sum, an economics professor and director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. Click for Full Text!
Some of My Fellow Righty Bloggers Need a Broader Definition of ‘Worst Figure’
Post Date: 2010-08-14 22:32:17 by go65
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I can’t believe conservative bloggers put a bunch of garden-variety Democratic politicians so high, when asked to compile a list of the Worst Figures in American History. The list, compiled from the responses of 43 right-of-center bloggers by John Hawkins: 23) Saul Alinsky 23) Bill Clinton 23) Hillary Clinton 19) Michael Moore 19) George Soros (8) 19) Alger Hiss (8) 19) Al Sharpton (8) 13) Al Gore (9) 13) Noam Chomsky (9) 13) Richard Nixon (9) 13) Jane Fonda (9) 13) Harry Reid (9) 13) Nancy Pelosi (9) 11) John Wilkes Booth (10) 11) Margaret Sanger (10) 9) Aldrich Ames (11) 9) Timothy McVeigh (11) 7) Ted Kennedy (14) 7) Lyndon Johnson (14) 5) Benedict Arnold (17) 5) Woodrow Wilson ...
Desperate Democrats
Post Date: 2010-08-14 16:45:01 by reaganisright
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The only strategy they have left is personal attacks. The Democratic strategy in the 2010 election is simple: Change the subject. And given the subject on everyone’s mind, who can blame them? That subject is the economy and related matters like spending, the deficit, debt, and President Obama. These are the last things Democrats want to talk about. Instead they’d like to reduce each race for the House and Senate to the personal level. Their aim is to emphasize the individual flaws of Republican candidates. In the Democratic game plan, the economy and national issues are taboo. This microstrategy is one of pure desperation. It’s all that’s left when macro-political ...
Memo to Republicans: It’s Big Government, Stupid!
Post Date: 2010-08-13 15:29:04 by go65
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Riding a record of unprecedented government spending, rising debt, a government takeover of the health-care system, high unemployment, and proposals to tax everything they stumble across, Democrats have put themselves in position for an epic electoral defeat that will rival the Republican debacles of 2006 and 2008. Given this record of Democratic ineptitude and the voters’ reaction to it, one would think that Republicans would be talking about these issues every day. Instead, Republicans and conservatives have spent recent weeks talking about such distracting side-issues as immigration, the 14th amendment, gay marriage, and when and where mosques should be built. No doubt these are ...
The Death of Zionism
Post Date: 2010-08-12 19:44:29 by Brian S
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Zionism is a thorn in the world’s side. Like all forms of politico-religious collective extremism, it is deceptive, cruel, and arrogantly self-righteous. Zionists have overstayed their welcome in the Middle East by about fifty years, and the longer they remain in power the worse off Israel, the Middle East, and the world will be. And they are not going anywhere, nor will they pursue a new policy, so it naturally falls on the injured party to remove a thorn from its side, and since America has the most powerful arm in the world, it must be the one to pull it out from the world’s side, and stop the bleeding. How should this thorn be removed? Strong international pressure on Israel ...
"What would Reagan do" about unemployment? Answer: Reagan raised taxes
Post Date: 2010-08-11 00:51:28 by Brian S
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In an op-ed headlined "Unemployment: What Would Reagan Do?" American Enterprise Institute vice president Henry Olsen stated: "There is only one instance since World War II of the U.S economy increasing the employment-population ratio by five percentage points in a decade: the recovery that followed Ronald Reagan's tax cuts in 1983." In fact, Congress passed the Reagan tax cuts in 1981, and economists say it did not lead the nation out of recession. In 1983, Reagan actually raised taxes to shore up Social Security. Olsen's underlying argument is essentially a regurgitation of right-wing talking points: the Obama administration's policies are misguided and ...
The Permanent War System Rolls On; Serial Denial on Iraq and Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-08-10 22:18:45 by Brian S
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Two months ago, I wrote that the Obama administration and the U.S. command in Afghanistan faced an “Iraq 2006 moment” in the second half of 2010 – a collapse of domestic political support for a failed war paralleling the political crisis in Bush’s Iraq War in 2006. Now comes Republican Congressman Frank Wolf to make that parallel with 2006 eerily precise. Wolf published a letter to President Obama last week calling for the immediate establishment of an “Afghanistan-Pakistan Study Group”. It would be the son of the Iraq Study Group. Wolf is the Congressman who authored the legislation in 2005 creating the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group ...
During His Office Treason Was No Crime
Post Date: 2010-08-10 20:05:03 by Mad Dog
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“During his office treason was no crime, the sons of Belial had a glorious time.” John Dryden – speaking from the 17th Century about a generic problem seen now. The level of lawlessness in the District of Criminals is rising to a level worthy of the degenerate Roman Emperor Caligula. The arrogant, prevaricating, and obfuscating narcissist Barack Obama is displaying incompetence in his nonchalant dictatorial attitude, frightening many… even life-long Democrats. He is alienating allies and encouraging enemies at home and abroad. Secession is a topic crossing the threshold of mainstream media, much as a quest for liberty in Dryden’s time drove pilgrims across the ...
Obama’s Birthday Fun Lasts Five Days-Maybe He’s Really 13?
Post Date: 2010-08-10 05:15:10 by reaganisright
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How old is the President? Rush Limbaugh thinks August 4, the chief’s birthday, may not be correct. Okay, but what about his emotional age? Last week marked Obama’s 49th birthday. The celebration began Wednesday evening at a dinner in Chicago with Oprah Winfrey and officially ended on Sunday at the White House with a barbecue. In between he did run around to various Democratic fundraisers and gave another upbeat speech at a Ford auto plant touting his economic plan as a boon to creating jobs. With those annoying chores out of the way, he hit the golf course on Saturday and played basketball at Fort McNair while wounded war veterans watched. Then more fun on Sunday with best pal, ...
Prayers needed for a baby
Post Date: 2010-08-09 23:33:12 by TXBSAFH
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Please pray for my 3rd cousin Holman, AKA Little Dude. He is 6.5 months old and has just diagnosed with leukemia. He is in TX Childrens Hospital in Houston and will be there for at least the next 6 to 8 weeks. Please if you would be so kind as to remember him and our family in you prayers.
‘Today, I Quit Being A Christian’
Post Date: 2010-08-09 12:26:17 by Brian S
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“Today, I quit being a Christian.” With those words last week on Facebook, Anne Rice delivered a wake-up call for organized religion. The question is whether it will be recognized as such. “I remain committed to Christ as always,” she wrote, “but not to being ‘Christian’ or to being part of Christianity. It’s simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I’ve tried. I’ve failed. I’m an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.” You will recall that the author, famed for her vampire novels, made a much publicized return to the ...
The Right's Ingenious Campaign To Turn One Billion People Into Our Sworn Enemies
Post Date: 2010-08-09 12:17:39 by Brian S
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America has lots of problems, from fighting two wars to high unemployment to anemic economic growth. Our friends on the right, however, seem to think we don't have enough problems and are working like gangbusters to transform more than a billion people around the world into our sworn enemies. As the New York Times reports, the anti-Ground Zero Mosque hysteria has gone nationwide: In Murfreesboro, Tenn., Republican candidates have denounced plans for a large Muslim center proposed near a subdivision, and hundreds of protesters have turned out for a march and a county meeting. In late June, in Temecula, Calif., members of a local Tea Party group took dogs and picket signs to Friday ...
Congressman John Boehner On Meet The Press: Another "Leader" With No Straight Answers
Post Date: 2010-08-08 17:11:09 by Brian S
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This morning on Meet the Press, David Gregory interviewed House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH). As is the tradition of the show, the host bombarded the guest with tough questions. Equally as traditional, the guest avoided providing straight answers to the majority of them. John Boehner is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives again in 2010, only this time he is competing to become the next Speaker of the House. You would think someone in such a position would be primed with all the answers. You thought wrong. As always, the subject of greatest contention revolved around the economy. That is certainly no wonder. The economy is easily the issue of greatest import in ...
Build the Ground Zero Mosque
Post Date: 2010-08-07 01:31:21 by Brian S
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I believe we should promote Muslim moderates right here in America. And why I'm returning an award to the ADL. Stephen Chernin / Getty ImagesMuslims pray at an Islamic center in Queens, N.Y. Ever since 9/11, liberals and conservatives have agreed that the lasting solution to the problem of Islamic terror is to prevail in the battle of ideas and to discredit radical Islam, the ideology that motivates young men to kill and be killed. Victory in the war on terror will be won when a moderate, mainstream version of Islam—one that is compatible with modernity—fully triumphs over the world view of Osama bin Laden. As the conservative Middle Eastern expert Daniel Pipes put it, ...
What's the Weather (Temps) Where You Are?
Post Date: 2010-08-04 18:56:27 by Murron
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Fair presently , 91ºF Hi today: 96 Lo tonight: 76 It may have been 96' in some areas but it registered 99'-100' here at home. Right now the wheather forcast says fair and 91', but it's still 95' here....We're getting some low rumbling thunder, but no rain ..yet. I'm sure it must be hotter in other places...besides hell! &;-)
Why the Tea Party is Un-Christian
Post Date: 2010-08-04 15:55:11 by Brian S
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Perhaps nothing is as demoralizing as religious hypocrisy; it destroys not only perpetrators but witnesses. Every time a non-believer observes adherents acting in contradiction to the precepts of their faith, the non-believer is only strengthened in his resistance to God's call. We are not talking about the usual human failings but outrageous, repugnant, destructive violations. The scandal of false Christianity forms an insurmountable stumbling block for some who are being called to conversion. For this reason I am exposing the hypocrisy of Tea Party members who claim they are defending Christianity--a way of life they don’t follow. Nowhere in the New Testament does Jesus exhort ...
Neocons Hoping Israel Will Start a Fire the U.S. Will Be Forced to Put Out
Post Date: 2010-08-04 15:27:58 by Brian S
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Reuel Marc Gerecht's screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening of the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack.What is important to understand about this campaign is that the aim of Gerecht and of the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is to support an attack by Israel so that the United States can be drawn into direct, full-scale war with Iran.That has long been the Israeli strategy for Iran, because Israel cannot fight a war with Iran without full U.S. involvement. Israel needs to know that the United States will finish the war ...
Will the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq threaten Saudi Arabia and Israel?
Post Date: 2010-08-04 15:15:00 by Brian S
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Punctuality is a requirement that annoys every soldier. Diplomats and politicians generally know how to avoid being on time. But with U.S. President Barack Obama falling in public opinion polls, with the war in Afghanistan changing directions every 3-4 months and no end in sight, and with congressional elections approaching in November, Obama said to his supporters "I'm sticking to the schedule". The plan to reduce the number of combat troops in Iraq to 50,000 by the end of August, reaffirmed by Obama on Monday, is not a full retreat, but it is worrying, mostly due to the fact that in Iraq there is still no government five months after elections were held. Iraqi security ...
Earmarks Help, Palin Doesn't
Post Date: 2010-08-04 15:05:44 by Brian S
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Over and over, politicians in Washington have condemned “earmarks,” language stuck into bills designed to provide money for special projects supported by individual members of Congress. Yet politicians keep fighting for those earmarks -- and there are some members who denounce earmarks in the abstract but then work hard for those that happen to benefit their folks back home. That may seem hypocritical, but now we know why politicians do it: Voters like politicians better when they show them the money. A new Pew Research Center/National Journal poll released today found that 53 percent of Americans are more likely to vote for candidates with a record of bringing government money ...
Neocons Are Hypocrites On WikiLeaks
Post Date: 2010-08-04 15:04:13 by Brian S
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As soon as the WikiLeaks Afghanistan exposé came to light, it was obvious the usual suspects would start attacking the messenger than discussing the message. David Aaronovitch was quick off the mark, with others following soon enough – implying WikiLeaks was seriously damaging the war effort in Afghanistan. The rhetoric has now reached absurd levels. The US defence secretary said the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, had "blood on his hands"; people on Fox News have called it "a terrorist organisation"; and one of the Washington Post's columnists called it a "criminal enterprise". The former Bush speechwriter also said he wanted it shut down ...
GOP Leaders Join The Hate: Gingrich And Palin Attack Ground Zero 'Mosque' With No Regard For Facts
Post Date: 2010-08-03 17:04:24 by Brian S
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Newt Gingrich, his doctorate notwithstanding, has offered us an illogical and ahistorical context to the ugly dispute about building an Islamic cultural center and mosque near Manhattan's Ground Zero. For a while, I thought that Sarah Palin and others would be the only ones to reap the political benefit of exploiting anti-Muslim sentiment, but Gingrich was not to be denied. With a preposterous solemnity, he expounded the schoolyard doctrine of tit for tat. Gingrich noted that there "are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia." True enough. However, it is not the government of Saudi Arabia that seeks to open a mosque in lower Manhattan, but a private group. In addition, ...
Still more proof Sarah Palin is toxic outside her bubble
Post Date: 2010-08-03 13:53:18 by Skip Intro
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Still more proof Sarah Palin is toxic outside her bubble Okay, here's still more evidence, as if you needed it, that Sarah Palin is increasingly toxic to voters who reside outside the Palin Nation bubble. Pew Research just released a new poll finding that more than twice as many Americans see a Palin endorsement as a negative for a Congressional candidate than view it as a positive. The numbers: Thirty eight percent say they are less likely to back a Congressional candidate if Palin "campaigns on their behalf." Less than half that amount, 18 percent, say they are more likely to do so. Forty two percent say it would make no difference, only slightly more than see it as a ...
Is Fear Of Islam The New McCarthyism?
Post Date: 2010-08-02 20:03:17 by Brian S
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By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite Religious freedom and the right of free expression are the strongest source of power Americans have for combating radicals who use Islam as the excuse for their violent extremism. The struggle with such extremists will not, indeed cannot, be won with military force, but through the power of our values. If there is a "narrative" abroad in the world that justifies violence against the West because the West "hates Islam," the way to correct that narrative is with the practice of our cherished ideals of religious freedom and tolerance for diversity of opinion. Instead, however, conservatives such as Newt Gingrich want us to reject not only ...
Has Shimon Peres forgotten the support – and lives – Britain has given Israel?
Post Date: 2010-08-02 13:48:04 by Brian S
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Israeli President Shimon Peres’s Britain-bashing, revealed by The Daily Telegraph, only further demonstrates the bunker mentality that now passes for foreign policy in Jerusalem. This is what he said in the interview: And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment… They always worked against us. He finished off with the sensational headline fodder: “There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.” Immediately, the Israeli blogosphere was humming with approval for the elderly president’s outburst. ...
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