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The Bush-Cheney gang may have ran roughshod over the Constitution, cooked intelligence, lied us into war, turned the U.S. into a torture nation, and imprisoned innocent people for years at a time, but...
View ArticleAnd While We’re On the Subject of the Oscars…
…Slumdog and Sean Penn have taken their hits. Well, what about The Reader? Shorter version of this “uplifting” movie: A woman has a sexual relationship with a fifteen year old boy. Years later she goes...
View ArticleMuch Love From the Republican Right
Much was made of Helen Thomas making a “Slumdog Millonaire” crack after seeing Bobby Jindal’s speech last week. How do we know she’s a blatant racist and ignoramus? It went out via Twitter. She...
View ArticleWhat’s at Stake in Pakistan
Co-Written with Nail ’em Up The introduction of the AfPak plan — so named because rather than focus on Afghanistan it also incorporates Pakistan and the Pashtun populated border — seemed a big step...
View ArticlePakistan’s Ambassador Interviewed by Jon Stewart
Husain Haqqani on the Daily Show Full disclosure: I know Husain and his wife Farah, who is a member of Pakistan’s National Assembly, quite well. Farah is my former colleague. When Farah first...
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Glenn Greenwald is shocked, SHOCKED, that’s there’s politicking going on. Read it and weep. Buyer’s remorse is setting in. Meanwhile the Democratic “leaders” like Harry Reid, proving once that the...
View ArticleSomeone Needs Help
I’m not sure why some think that just because Olbermann or Maddow or entire networks make comments or cover events in ways that are objectionable that it then becomes OK to blindly defend and ignore...
View ArticleTo All Those Who Jumped on Janet Napolitano’s Statement…
(Bumped up from early morning.) …about right-wing extremists posing a national security threat, how’s this working for you? Oh, and remember him? And to all the Bill O’Reilly apologists, how do you...
View ArticleFood for Thought
Some of you expressed shock and horror that Janet Napolitano included returning war veterans in her list of potential threats. Keep in mind that recruiters, who are under intense and sometimes...
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In a world full of bitterness, cynicism, cruelty and indifference, it’s nice to see a story that lifts the spirits. “Slumdog Millionaire” child star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and his mother moved into...
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The Bush-Cheney gang may have ran roughshod over the Constitution, cooked intelligence, lied us into war, turned the U.S. into a torture nation, and imprisoned innocent people for years at a time, but...
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