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Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 7:31 am
Now Fatherland, Fatherland show us the sign... (Do you still think you can control them, GOP Establishment?)Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.
Category Archives: Global Governance
The Syrian Experiment
As I said yesterday morning, China and Russia are using Syria as a laboratory for non-intervention. With a death toll already in the thousands, the opposition shows no sign of giving up and neither does Assad’s Alawite regime. A discussion … Continue reading
Morning Awful: European Double-Dip
Europe’s financial crisis isn’t staying in Europe; demand for American goods and services is declining. This is why I don’t understand people who root for Europe to fail: It’s affecting companies like Marlin Steel Wire Products, a 34-employee business based … Continue reading
Now Obama Is Secretly Jewish
Not only is Obama secretly Muslim, he’s also secretly Jewish: Obama is the “the first Jewish President”. That’s the title of New York magazine’s lead article, written by John Heilemann and quoting a major Obama fundraiser. [...] Should each and every … Continue reading
The Opposite of Iraq
Glenn Greenwald makes a prima facie case that America’s role in Libya is illegal, which (of course) makes this president worse than Bush. He summarizes the White House position thusly: (1) the War Powers Resolution of 1973 (WPR) authorizes the … Continue reading
Afghanistan and the Obama Military (UPDATE)
Operation Mushtarak began this weekend. The Obama military is going to war under the banner of a non-English noun. Mushtarak is defined as “common,” “joint,” “combined,” “concurrent,” or “collective;” in the Arabic of international relations this word is used to … Continue reading
Land-Mine Irony
News last week that the Obama administration won’t sign the landmine ban is disappointing, but also ironic: the International Campaign to Ban Landmines was the first success of information-age grassroots organizing on a global scale. Jody Williams won a Nobel … Continue reading
Americans Go To China For Work
I don’t have time to deal with this fully because I’m packing for Netroots Nation, but globalization has a new lede. From the NY Times: BEIJING — Shanghai and Beijing are becoming new lands of opportunity for recent American college … Continue reading
