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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: Obama’s Afghanistan Policy
Gates Is Not Signalling
This AP story at HuffPo uses the wrong lede: WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said any new U.S. forces President Barack Obama sends to Afghanistan could move into the country swiftly, despite logistical hassles that force almost all major … Continue reading
Broder’s Atrocious Argument
In pressing for Obama to make a decision now about how many troops to deploy in April, David Broder delivers an atrocity of an argument today: It is evident from the length of (Obama’s) deliberative process and from the flood … Continue reading
Afghanistan and the Public Option
Andrew Sullivan describes 11-dimensional chess and the politics of consensus, discovering the same link I made six weeks ago: What we are seeing here, I suspect, is what we see everywhere with Obama: a relentless empiricism in pursuit of a … Continue reading
McChrystal Method
According to CBS, Obama had decided to go with McChrystal’s plan, giving him almost all the troops he asked for. Administration officials had acknowledged problems with Afghanistan’s nominal president, Hamid Kharzai, last week: “He’s got to take concrete steps to … Continue reading
Afghanistan On The Brink
Once again, the Christian Science Monitor is light-years ahead of the American media landscape. This report on the deteriorating relationship between Hamid Kharzai and regional governors has no analogue in American television at the moment, so if it blows up … Continue reading
The Truth Is Outsourced
Reading Allison Stanger’s One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy, Tom Freidman draws an interesting conclusion: Every year, more and more of the core business of national security — diplomacy, development, defense … Continue reading
Avoiding Checkmate in Afghanistan (UPDATE)
Gosh, it’s a good thing Obama “waffled” on Afghanistan. There’s no possible scenario for success without a legitimate partner, and since America’s current partner in Kabul was trying to steal the runoff election, his opponent has withdrawn from the race: … Continue reading
Obama’s New Afghanistan Strategy
The New York Times reported Tuesday that Ahmed Wali Kharzai, brother of Afghan president Hamid Kharzai (currently arranging the theft of a runoff election) is on the CIA payroll and waist-deep in the opium trade. American strategy for the last … Continue reading
Obama’s Afghanistan Decision
From Jake Tapper at ABC: the president is planning to explain a new Afghanistan strategy between November 7th and 11th. Sources emphasize that no decision has yet been made, but as of now it looks as though the president is … Continue reading
