Posted on August 7th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
The battle for healthcare reform is starting to get very, very ugly. I’ve not had much time of late to blog, but there’s some pieces in today’s news I want to make sure readers catch. First off, is the whacky statement that Sarah Palin posted on her Facebook today. Palin said:
The America I know and [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
The Weekend Must Read comes by way of Jonathan Alter on NEWSWEEK: “What’s Not to Like?”
Alter, who had cancer a few years ago says:
I like the fact that if I lose my job, I won’t be able to get any insurance because of my illness. It reminds me of my homeowners’ insurance, which gets canceled [...]
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Posted on June 24th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Roger Cohen’s latest on Iran: The End of the Beginning.
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
I’m balancing running my business, a part-time job and 3 blogs these days. Needless to say there are not enough hours in the day. So before I dash out the door… Here’s the must read of the day from John Kerry in the NY Times: With Iran, Think Before You Speak.
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Posted on June 16th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
New York Magazine has a piece on Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Peter Keating notes in New York that Clinton “has steadily accumulated power while expending hardly any political capital.”
In this Clinton has “stirred an effective mix of politicos and diplomats into the top tiers of the State Department” and Keating notes, she “hasn’t [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
There have been a lot of calls of late to drop the stimulus plans put in place to aid recovery from the recession. Paul Krugman explains today why “It’s much too soon to give up on policies that have, at most, pulled us a few inches back from the edge of the abyss.”
Krugman notes that despite [...]
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Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Frank Rich on why the Obama administration must persue a “truth commission” on torture and the Bush administration:
TO paraphrase Al Pacino in “Godfather III,” just when we thought we were out, the Bush mob keeps pulling us back in. And will keep doing so. No matter how hard President Obama tries to turn the page [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Has the Republican Party become an endangered species?
Polls suggest that only one-fourth of the electorate considers itself Republican, that independents are trending Democratic and that as few as five states have solid Republican pluralities. And the electorate is getting less white, less rural, less Christian — in short, less demographically Republican.
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Posted on May 4th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
I read on my Twitter feed that Political cartoonist Daryl Cagle is offering an embed code now for bloggers to post his cartoons. Sadly for our readers the code won’t work here because the cartoons cannot be resized and they are too big for our post column. You can check out the latest from Cagle [...]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2009 by Berry Craig
Condoleezza Rice “would make a great middle school social studies teacher,” according to the late Don Askew, a retired Green Beret colonel and Middle East advisor to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
“Incompetent” was about the kindest thing I ever heard him say about Rice and her boss over the mess they made in Iraq.
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