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• Herbert tries to make himself feel better at our expense

  
  Letters to the Editor — Authority: 139
  In his recent article, Bob Herbert continues his hypocritical chastisement of those Americans who are not serving in America’s armed forces.  He begins by recounting a conversation he recently had with a student at Columbia, who apparently endorsed President Obama’s…
  1 week ago

• Is It Too Easy for America to Go to War?

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 515
  In the aftermath of President Barack Obamas announcement last week that he plans to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, most Americans probably did not think about an alarming fact: Fewer than 1 percent of us are being called to fight in our current wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq. New York Times columnist ...
  1 week ago

• Friday Feedback: Call for Jobs Programs

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  I can’t say I was “disappointed” in the jobs summit, because I didn’t expect it to be more than window dressing, but every day I wake up with the hope that President Obama will read one of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• Once More From The Top, Barack (Mark Steyn On The Herman Van Rompuy Of US Statism Alert)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  It wasn’t so long ago that Barack Obama’s speeches were being hailed as “extraordinary” “rhetorical magic” (Joe Klein in Time) that should be “required reading in classrooms” (Bob Herbert in the New York Times). Pity the poor grade-schoolers who have to be on the bus at 5 a.m. for a daylong slog through the ...
  1 week ago

• Obama goes from dazzle to drone [DRONING ON]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  It wasnt so long ago that Barack Obamas speeches were being hailed as "extraordinary" "rhetorical magic" (Joe Klein in Time) that should be "required reading in classrooms" (Bob Herbert in The New York Times). Pity the poor grade-schoolers who have to be on the bus at 5 a.m. for a daylong slog through the 4,000-word ...
  1 week ago

• Fighting wars without pain might be OK if it were possible, but merely ghetto-izing the pain is unacceptable

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 616
  "The idea that fewer than 1 percent of Americans are being called on to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq and that we’re sending them into combat again and again and again -- for three tours, four tours, five tours, six tours -- is obscene. All decent people should object. . . . "The reason it is so easy for the U.S. ...
  1 week ago

• U.S.troops out of sight and out of mind

  
  mid coast views — Authority: 115
  We are sending another 30,000 troops into combat, young men and women who are our husbands, wives, sons and daughters. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert notes: The air is filled with obsessive self-satisfied rhetoric about supporting the troops, giving them everything they need and not letting them down. But ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ed Wars III--Silly Commentary

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 147
  Bob Herbert claims our school system doesnt have the quality of leaders it should, which sure as hell is true even if Herbert doesnt really understand the underlying politics of public education. He writes about Harvard having a new program for education leaders which supposedly would help. Well, few people outside ...
  2 weeks ago

• Larry King Pro-Obama Then Anti-War in Michael Moore Interview

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 819
  CNN’s Larry King carried water for President Obama’s move to send more troops to Afghanistan during an interview of Michael Moore on early Wednesday morning. King later shifted further to the left, asking Moore if he agreed with Jesse Ventura’s call for a new draft and a “war tax” and quoting from Bob ...
  3 weeks ago

• Afghan Escalation Panned

  
  MAL Contends . . . — Authority: 469
  Bob Herbert - "I suppose we’ll never learn. President Obama will go on TV Tuesday night to announce that he plans to send tens of thousands of additional American troops to Afghanistan to fight in a war that has lasted most of the decade and has long since failed." Michael Moore - "With just one speech tomorrow ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rotten Infrastructure Should Mean Great Jobs

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  Charles Duhigg of the New York Times delivers this indictment of sewer systems in New York City and across the country, which violate clean water laws regularly by allowing raw sewage and chemicals into America’s rivers and streams, usually when routine rainfall overwhelms the systems.  More than one-third of ...
  4 weeks ago

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