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• Afghan Escalation Panned

  
  MAL Contends . . . — Authority: 493
  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 ...
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• Rotten Infrastructure Should Mean Great Jobs

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Imagine

  
  Zane Safrit — Authority: 129
  Imagine, instead, an America with rebuilt, healthy, dynamicmetropolitan areas, and gleaming new port facilities, and networks ofhigh-speed rail, an America with electric vehicles and a smart grid andenergy generated by the power of the sun and wind and water and theocean’s waves. Imagine if the children of today’s ...
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• Will We Ever Stop the Killings?

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  New York Times columnist Bob Herbert last April 24th estimated 12,000 Americans are shot dead each year, 2,000 of them children, and 70,000 more are wounded but survive. Read my personal story. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 weeks ago

• The "Recovery"

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 149
  has been only for the few and not for the many : Now we’re learning that unmarried women are among those being crushed by the epidemic of joblessness. As the Center for American Progress has noted, “The high unemployment rate of unmarried women, and particularly the 1.3 million unemployed female heads of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jobs deficit requires bold action

  
  mid coast views — Authority: 117
  Since the beginning of the Great Recession, unemployment has increased by 5.8%, the biggest increase since the Great Depression. The ranks of the long term unemployed (those laid off for more than six months) has soared to 5.6. million, also a post-depression peak. While Republicans like Congressman Paul Ryan, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• NYT Columnists Who Blamed Conservatives for Right-Wing Killings Ignoring Fort Hood Massacre

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  Back in June, liberal columnists at the New York Times lined up to link conservative talkers Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh to James von Brunn, the 88-year-old man who killed a security guard at the Holocaust Museum, and the murder by Scott Roeder of abortionist George Tiller. Columnists Paul Krugman ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fired up at The New York Times

  
  MtnGrl Musing — Authority: 115
  During the campaign, President Obama talked about some lady in South Carolina whose enthusiastic proclamation he adopted as a campaign chant: "Fired up and Ready to Go!" Its starting to seem like the folks at The New York Times are fired up and ready for a couple of things to go--our involvement in the Middle East ...
  3 weeks ago

• More War, More Failure

  
  Daily Renewal: Freethinking Bipartisanship — Authority: 134
  Once again, Bob Herbert is the most lucid op-ed writer in the mainstream media, on the most crucial issues. Today, as the President prepares to make the most flawed and potentially fatal decision of his political career, Bob Herbert offers him one last call to sanity. For all the pain of the Bush years, it [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Two Different Worlds We Live In - The Hasan Murders

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  The most fundamental truth in psychology is that human beings filter the world through their own blinders. There is no objective reality for humans - only the reality seen by each person and the groups to which they belong. There have always been two Americas - now termed Red and Blue America. This was evident ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unemployment Report: November 6, 2009

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 169
  Each month, when my official unemployment figures by the U.S. government to quickly find my inbox a note from the former chairman of cable network and high-level adviser to the Economic John Edwards and Barack Obama campaigns Leo Hindery sent me the “effective unemployment” that many commentators, the economic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mau mauing voters in NY23

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 514
  Teabaggers intimidating voters at NY23 polling stations . Bringing a little bit of Dixie Alaska to upstate New York. Charming. - It’s kinda funny how things work at the WaPost now. Nick Gillespie reviews two new rightwing hagiographies of Sarah Palin , and casually throws in a: The Atlantic’s Andrew ...
  4 weeks ago

• Showcase: Peter van Agtmael - 2nd Tour, Hope I Dont Die

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Peter van Agtmael has risked his life to capture the grim reality of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  4 weeks ago

• Interviewing DICK (and other tales from the destroyation)

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 514
  FBI notes from their interview with Cheney in ‘04 show DICK to have been quite hazy on the specifics of his lawbreaking. Asked whether he personally discussed the couple with any reporter, Cheney said he generally did not “take incoming calls from the media.” He declined to sign a legal waiver entitling ...
  4 weeks ago

• If Obama loses Bob Herbert...

  
  Crunchy Con — Authority: 699
  Bob Herbert -- Bob Herbert! -- is concerned that Obama is blowing it by betting everything on health care reform,, and by taking such good care of Wall Street. Excerpt: Voters are being told that the recession is over, but...
  4 weeks ago

• Cockroach Joe Rises Again

  
  Daily Renewal: Freethinking Bipartisanship — Authority: 134
  Those who question whether our government is run by corporations, who doubt that K Street is the true center of power in our nation, may be interested to know that insurance company stocks are the political wind that moves Washington.Do you imagine it’s the other way around, that the plunge and rise of stock prices ...
  4 weeks ago

• Late Night: Elephants on Parade?

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 748
  The legendary Bear Bryant (I think there is some sort of rule that says you have to write “the legendary” if you are going to write “Bear Bryant”) once said, “Offense sells tickets; defense wins championships.” That’s in football (it works for basketball, too, but I digress. . .)—in politics, however, ...
  5 weeks ago

• Obama’s Bitchs

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 140
  The New York Stimes has confirmed that the White House held an off the record press gaggle for selected media lap dogs: Speaking privately at the White House on Monday with a group of mostly liberal columnists and commentators, including Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and ...
  5 weeks ago

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