Paul Krugman notes a piece today that was in the Boston Globe in September, about “about Barack Obama’s role, when he was in the Illinois legislature, in the attempt to get the state committed to universal health care.” Krugman says, “It turns out that the story very much prefigures the debates we’re having right now.”
Krugman’s apparently not [...]
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In actuality Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran pose no threat to America or her interests with any form of arms capacity. What does stand as a challenge, and what is suddenly showing in rather stark light, is the frail logic of our policies. With regard to arms, with regard to the exercise of power, in the Mideast and around the world, what is being called into question in our confrontation with Iran is the generalized doctrine American exceptionalsim, “The Because We Said So” Doctrine.
Why is nuclear power a sovereign domestic concern for American politicians to discuss freely, yet something Iran must seek permission for? What empowers the U.S. to arbitrate the standing of nuclear nations, blessing for India what it would bomb in Iraq? Would America’s ally Israel submit to the same monitoring conditions for its power plants now being demanded of Iran? These questions, this is the war of ideas Iran is waging right now. And that’s one place where I worry about our own “weapons capacity.”
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From Jerome Armstrong at MyDD:
Obama attacking Paul Krugman’s credibility
Every 4 years in December, Robert Gibbs, Obama’s communications director, seems to morph into some sort of a zombie that turns on progressives… or maybe he’s always that way. During the last Presidential cycle at this time, Robert Gibbs was the face and spokesperson for the front [...]
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In his column today Paul Krugman on “The Mandate Muddle,” Krugman points out Barack Obama’s wrong-minded position on universal health care and the need to “include a requirement that everyone have health insurance — a so-called mandate.”
Krugman points to an imaginary scenario where Obama is elected president and in preparing to ”unveil his plan for universal health [...]
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The U.N. Climate Change Conference began in Bali today. Delegates from over 180 nations are participating along with observers from intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. The purpose of the Bali conference is ”to negotiate a new pact to succeed the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012.”
Among the non-govermental participants at the conference will be a group of islanders [...]
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It might be that this country has finally lost its capacity for outrage, has long since surrendered the idea of reproach or redress when lied to. We have become the Orwellian farm animals who find it too troubling to remember the promises once posted on the stable wall.
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I was fortunate to be selected as a Community Columnist for my local newspaper. I thought I would share with you my first column for today’s paper.
Do we teach our children the right life lessons?
By Robert Freedland
As our children have grown, it has been a tradition in our family for us to read them books [...]
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I don’t know who wrote Krauthammer’s column today, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t him. Why else would the column truthfully discuss the vile dictators the Right-wing administrations in the US have chosen to support:
Pakistan is not the first time we’ve faced hard choices about democratization. At the height of the Cold War, particularly [...]
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Senator Chuck Schumer wrote a tortured OP/ED in today’s N.Y. Times explaining his vote to confirm Michael B. Mukasey for attorney general. The gist, Schumer explained was based “one critical reason: the Department of Justice — once the crown jewel among our government institutions — is a shambles and is in desperate need of a strong leader, [...]
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There are a lot of scary things in the world.
There’s the “fun-scary”—kids who dress up as clowns, monsters, or fairy princesses once a year to get a month’s supply of candy, which they’ll finish off by morning.
There’s scary movies, from “Jaws” to “Friday the 13th“ to—well—“Scary Movie.”
The murder mystery genre—in books, TV, and film—can scare [...]
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Simmer down, back there! So the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. Yippee! Hooray! I’m from Colorado, so I don’t wanna hear about the World Series, right now.
I’m thinking a Ten Post Round-Up will make me a feel a whole lot better…
From Signs of the Times:
* Fidel Castro pokes fun at George W. Bush:
HAVANA [...]
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Absolutely astounding. Uh huh… Absolutely astounding. But, yet not at all surprising to hear that BushCo botched another opportunity to kill Osama bin Laden.
We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south [...]
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