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Half right

Monday, July 21, 2008

Obama, against all odds, appears to be winning (at least for the moment) the debate about Iraq. This is mainly because al-Maliki is no fool, and like the rest of the world, he is not interested in another four years of George Bush, brought to you by an increasingly befuddled McCain. But we here have […]

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George Bush hearts Schrödinger’s cat.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

I enjoy reading books about physics. I don’t pretend to clearly understand all of the paradoxes that have been introduced into modern physics, but I feel that, at least while I’m reading about them, I can sidle up to a sort of understanding. We are not hard wired to understand these things, so they’re counterintuitive. […]

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The War Prayer

Monday, May 26, 2008

Via the Washington Monthly, a Memorial Day sermon penned by Hartford’s adopted son, Mark Twain. The War Prayer:

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The cross we must bear: the Blue Dog “Democrats”

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, then we have some extremely big minds in the Democratic party, all residing in the heads of the “Blue Dog Democrats”, who make a habit of stabbing their party in the back. Senator Jim Webb has been trying to pass a bill guaranteeing reasonable benefits, including updated […]

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Back to Basics-why Clinton lost

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Every once in a while, the conversation gets back to basics. Via Suburban Guerilla, I found myself at the American Prospect, where we find the following observation: Admittedly, this is the kind of counterfactual that’s impossible to prove, but my guess is that if she had voted against the war Clinton would be the Democratic […]

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On to Iran, helped once again by the New York Times

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

This is something I feel the need to pass on. The New York Times was instrumental in the run up to the Iraq war. It served as a both a conduit and a legitimizer of the war. The administration would feed information to Judith Miller and Michael Gordon, who would dutifully print it, and then […]

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Deliver us from (NY Times sanctioned) Experts

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Today the New York Times celebrates the anniversary of Mission Accomplished by asking nine “experts” how we should proceed in Iraq. Among those experts: Frederick Kagan, L. Paul Bremer, Kenneth M. Pollack and Richard Perle, each of whom has been consistently and disastrously wrong about Iraq from the very start. They are joined by Anne […]

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In case you missed it

Friday, May 2, 2008

Yesterday the Longshoreman’s Union closed the ports of the West Coast to protest the Iraq war. If you’re a Times reader you’d know all about this, if you made your way to page A12. West Coast ports were shut down on Thursday as thousands of longshoremen failed to report for work, part of what their […]

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Congress about to give Bush more Iraq money

Sunday, April 20, 2008

The fearless Democrats are about to give Bush $178 billion dollars for Iraq and Afghanistan. They want to do it on the sly, before the next election, though they do plan to “defy” Bush by sneaking in some additional spending, including money for Jim Webb’s GI bill. The most unpopular president in United States history […]

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Secretary of torture

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Condi does not condone torture. She can say this because, according to their lawyer and their Orwellian way of thinking, it’s only torture if they say it is, and they say it isn’t. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gqaw5UnHA4[/youtube] Sign the Get Rid of Condi Petition here. Yes, I know it’s not going to happen, but that’s no excuse.

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