The “Hitler comparison” should be shouted from the rooftops, as should the Goebbels comparison, the Himmler comparison, the Mengele, Stalin, Torquemada, Beelzebub comparisons and all the rest. If it struts like a Nazi, talks like Nazi, tortures like a Nazi and wages aggressive and illegal war like a Nazi… it’s not a duck.
Eighteen months or [...]
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As we keep hearing the rhetoric from the Bush Administration about how they support the troops, when push comes to shove, we also keep hearing the truth… The Bush Administration repeatedly has left America’s Vets returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, high and dry, in so many ways. America’s economy is suffering under BushCo, and Veterans [...]
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Who knew? All this time we’ve been told about how “divisive, unelectable, ‘radioactive’” Hillary Clinton is, but it seems there’s something statistically wrong with what the pundits have been telling us. Go figure…
Judith Warner explains in her Domestic Disturbances column:
The shocks just keep on coming:
Hillary Clinton leads the Democratic field with 51 percent of the [...]
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I think it’s fairly safe to say that a majority of those who put in place our Constitution and signed our Declaration of Independence were Christians. But they understood democracy as something more than plurality. And they saw the sacred as a concern for the individual conscience, not the consensus of a committee, no matter how large or well intentioned that committee might be. The individual conscience, with its own freely chosen concept of Creation, outside the coercive authority of government, even a democratic one: They saw this as the core truth in their understanding of freedom. In my estimation, they got that one right.
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Hillary Clinton penned a piece for Foreign Affairs Magazine on foreign policy: Security and Opportunity for the Twenty-first Century. It’s a long an interesting read that stirred up once again the kerfluffle over Hillary’s intentions with Iran while she made clear that getting out of Iraq is tantamount:
Ending the war in Iraq is the first [...]
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Maybe it’s just me, but I sick and tired of the partisanship gone crazy that has infested this country and shows itself at it’s lowest levels on any given day of late in the blogosphere and in the opinion pages of what some call our news media as Paul Krugman points out in his Monday N.Y. [...]
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On Friday, I noted here that for justification of Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize, one simply needs to look back at “2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Muta Maathai.” Maathai, an environmentalist, ”founded the Green Belt Movement,” which the Boston Globe noted on Saturday “combats desertification.” The Globe has more:
Gore’s award is firmly in this [...]
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Todd posted the “required Saturday reading” this morning which included to very good OP/ED’s on Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. There’s one more, I highly recommend: Al Gore: the anti-Bush. It’s “no wonder,” Jonathan Chait says in L.A. Times that “conservatives are apoplectic - Gore’s fortunes rise as the president’s plummets.”
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Both Bob Herbert of the NYT and Peter Baker of the WaPo have must read columns up on this beautiful Saturday.
From Herbert: “[In 2000] Mr. Gore was taken to task for his taste in clothing and for such grievous offenses as sighing or, allegedly, rolling his eyes. It was a given that at a barbecue [...]
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Is the religious right disintegrating? Or is there a “a new generation of evangelical leaders,” who are ”tired of the rancid partisanship,” and they are now “breaking away from the culture wars”?
The reach of this new evangelical politics will be tested with the release tomorrow of a statement under the very biblical title “Come Let Us [...]
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