The WaPo reports today: “Study group to call for pullback,” and notes that the Iraq panel does not call for timetable. The Iraq Study Group, which wrapped up eight months of deliberations yesterday, has reached a consensus and will call for a major withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, shifting the U.S. role from combat to support and advising, according to a source familiar with the deliberations. Can you say, Good Morning AGAIN Vietnam? As usual, this administration reapplies...
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Another Media Double Standard: Only Republicans can Nominate Candidates From Their Home Region
OK so the doctrine of preemption didn’t work in Iraq, but I bet it’ll work here. Whether the nominee is Kerry or anybody from the Northeast, I guarantee you’ll hear media pundits (and not just the Rush Limbaughs of the world) say the following: A northeastern Democrat can’t win. Should Republicans nominate a southerner or another Goldwater (i.e. a westerner with strong southern sympathies) the reaction of most media folks will be… silence. Why can’t Dems nominate somebody from...
Would the World’s Largest Science Teacher’s Organization Ignore Climate Change Education?
EDITORS NOTE: Today’s Guest Post is from John F. Borowski. John is a science teacher of 26 years whose pieces have appeared in the N.Y. Times, UTNE Reader, Counterpunch, Commondreams and many other sites. The National Teachers Association (NSTA) has spurned 50,000 free DVDs of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and is squandering a golden opportunity to educate tens of millions of youth in the United States! Why? This 55,000- member organization of teachers and scientists could use Al...
The Rich Get Richer, The Poor Get Whataburger
Cross Posted From Article of Faith: Anyone else shocked at the competing stories this morning in the Times about rich and poor in America? Gilded Paychecks: “The opportunity to become abundantly rich is a recent phenomenon not only in medicine, but in a growing number of other professions and occupations. In each case, the great majority still earn fairly uniform six-figure incomes, usually less than $400,000 a year, government data show. But starting in the 1990s, a significant number...
Blogger Highlight: Oh, Come On! News From The War On Christmas?
Todays Blogger Highlight comes from Dizzy Dezzi. This may be one of the most insane things that I have heard of in quite some time. Today’s dose of s.t.f.u. goes to some of the residents of a home owners association in Pagosa Springs, CO! Apparently some dolts have a problem with the following decorative wreath: Colorado Subdivision Bans Peace Wreath After Residents Say Sign Is Anti-Iraq Protest Or Symbol Of Satan… DENVER – A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado...
Small yellow bus of Republican quotes
Hop on aboard Republicans, continue your trip to the school of hard knocks. I deserve respect for the things I did not do.–Dan Quayle El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.–Dan Quayle It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.–Dan Quayle Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way...
State Initiatives to Lift the Working Poor
Many states are raising minimum wages and their own Earned Income Tax Credits Recent wage gains and two consecutive months of falling prices, especially for gasoline, have raised real average hourly earnings, which should finish positive for 2006, as described here. There will be attempts to claim credit for this good news for low-wage workers. If the president or any other federal official tries to take the credit, we should be skeptical. The real credit goes to a select...
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