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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: Afghanistan
What Peak Force in Afghanistan Means for Pakistan
Remember, when Obama gives military aid to Pakistan, it’s empire. When Obama withholds that military aid, it’s still empire. From the AP, via Stars and Stripes: “If you still need the relationship, which clearly the United States does, then it … Continue reading
The Way Out Was Through
The biggest Taliban offensive of 2011 thus far lasted two days: Afghan security forces on Sunday killed a few insurgents who had barricaded themselves inside a hotel in the southern city of Kandahar, ending a two-day battle that left more … Continue reading
Martin Luther King And The “Good” War
Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson has raised another kerfuffle on the left with this: “I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation’s military should … Continue reading
When The Only Way Out Is Through
Secretary of State Clinton repeated the message yesterday, and Amanda Terkel affirmed the pattern: this president has no intention of indefinitely maintaining a large military presence in Afghanistan. America will be in extraction mode this summer. BBC, which headlined the … Continue reading
Timelines Change
The White House is still going to start withdrawing forces from Afghanistan next year, but the timeline is changing and Arianna is upset: Another official said the administration also realized in contacts with Pakistani officials that the Pakistanis had concluded … Continue reading
Dual-Track Approaches And Enlargement
The final decade of the Cold War saw the western alliance adopt something called the “dual-track” approach to arms control. On the one hand, NATO continued assembling thousands of new thermonuclear warheads and deploying missiles; the other hand held out … Continue reading
Afghanistan: What Success Looks Like
The New York Times reports “targeted” killing is the new order of the day in Afghanistan: Based on the American military experience in Iraq as well as Afghanistan, it is not clear that killing enemy fighters is sufficient by itself … Continue reading
Ugly Americans
So apparently part of the plan in Afghanistan involves creating local police security forces: In his first week on the job, Petraeus has met with Karzai three times and discussed many topics. But on at least one issue, the village … Continue reading
Can I Have The Money Quote Please?
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review characterizes the remarks of House Minority Leader John Boehner thusly: “Ensuring there’s enough money to pay for the war will require reforming the country’s entitlement system.” But it’s not in his words, it’s in their words. The … Continue reading
Uniform Code Of Military Justice
The general should be required to report to the president the same way privates reported to him when he commanded a company. After stopping three steps away from Obama’s desk, he should have to hold a salute until his superior … Continue reading
Afghanistan, Green Energy, And War
There’s a Plan B after all. Afghanistan turns out to have enormous metal deposits: So far, the biggest mineral deposits discovered are of iron and copper, and the quantities are large enough to make Afghanistan a major world producer of … Continue reading
