Politics & Society

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• Israel: the ‘Pause’ That Refreshes…Settlements

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 558
  The N.Y. Times headline tells it all Israel Offers a Pause in Building New Settlements . A pause is not a freeze. A pause ends with a resumption of whatever you were doing before. A freeze is something that stops you dead in your tracks. We all know where this is going and it ain’t a pretty place. Maybe a ...
  4 hours ago

• politicians should dress more like nascar drivers

  
  Notes From Off Center — Authority: 451
  Heres an idea. The biggest lie in elections is that we somehow think we are actually voting people into office out of a free choice. We are given a freedom to choose who we want to represent our individual and civic interests as law makers, enforcers, judges, and executors. Sure. That belief is like saying that ...
  6 hours ago

• TV Interview on Resolving Iran Nuclear Crisis

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 558
  Watch Stopping War with Iran in News   |  View More Free Videos Veoh.com A few weeks ago, Bill Alford interviewed me about Iran for his Seattle community access cable interview show, Moral Politics. Our half hour show ranged over many topics including last month’s hawkish presentation on Iran hosted by ...
  8 hours ago

• David Plouffe Book Tour: St. Louis

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  Friday night, my wife and I attended an event at the headquarters branch of the St. Louis County Library, featuring David Plouffe, the manager of Obama’s campaign for the White House. Plouffe was in town for the second to last stop of a tour promoting his book, The Audacity to Win , released earlier this ...
  21 hours ago

• A State Dinner With Typos

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  Obviously not that big of a deal, but it seems to follow an odd series of silly blunders in the Obama White House. IE: Sending the British PM the wrong format of DVDs and similar small but silly mistakes that you’d think they would catch.
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• Dobbs for President…of White America

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 558
  Lou Dobbs for president of white people! When Lou Dobbs took $8-million and walked out the studio door at CNN, I wrote that his parting comments sounded an awful lot like not just a politician announcing his candidacy–it sounded like he was running for president.  Turns out I was right (why is it so easy to ...
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• R.I.P. Samak

  
  More Bangkok! @ absolutely Bangkok.com — Authority: 468
  A year ago he was still going strong, Samak Sundaravej , dinosaur politician, cook, former prime minister. Liver cancer. That’s how life can be. Our humble little tribute to the controversial firebrand is a video below I shot not too long before his demise. A timely reminder that the old guard dies off slowly ...
  2 days ago

• The First Obama State Dinner: The Tent

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  Obama Foodorama’s Eddie Gehman Kohan promises wall-to-wall coverage of tomorrow’s first state dinner of the Obama administration — “Tweeting & blogging just that for the next 48 hours…” The plucky Eddie snagged an invite, and kicked off today with a history lesson from First Lady Michelle Obama in ...
  2 days ago

• Rick Doblin Google Tech Talk

  
  The Teleomorph — Authority: 425
  1 hr talk given at Google covering the curent state of psychedelic research.Posted in drug-laws / drug-politics, entheogens, health, mdma, pharmaceuticals, psychedelic medicine, science, society
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• Taking down righties’ moral hazard meme

  
  Oh!pinion — Authority: 121
  O ur response to a comment at Major Conflict , under the post, “The Song Remains the Same,” provided a chance to fire back at one all-too-typical regurgitation of conservative conventional wisdom. We hope using the resulting broadside for a post doesn’t strike you as too self-indulgent. First, the part of ...
  3 days ago

• Bowing to the Hive Mentality

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  There’s one person among the wretched, wriggling masses of the political blogosphere whom I clearly do not read often enough, and that’s Matt Taibbi . ( Hat tip to Rick at Right Wing Nuthouse.) The linked article is actually a long, scathing set of sharp elbows thrown in the direction of Sarah Palin and done so ...
  3 days ago

• Hassan and the Failure of U.S. Counter-Terror Policy

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 558
  In a N.Y. Times op-ed, Robert Wright, portrays the Ft. Hood attack from quite an interesting perspective that is different from what mine has been.  I’ve argued that while Hassan clearly had Islamist sympathies, his crime was more the fruit of deep mental illness.  Wright argues that even if we accept that Nidal ...
  4 days ago

• Iran-Israel-U.S.: Resolving the Nuclear Impasse

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 558
  There has been a speaker change and new sponsors for the conference which are reflected below: Iran-Israel-U.S.: Resolving the Nuclear Impasse Speakers: ♦ Reza Firouzbakht , national board chair, National Iranian American Council ♦ Dr. Ian Lustick , political science professor, University of ...
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• Funeral Director and Missouri Politician Pleads Guilty to Mishandling of Corpses

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 637
  Harold Warren Sr., 77, a Missouri funeral home director has pleaded guilty to intentionally giving three families the wrong cremated remains. This includes leaving a woman’s body in an electrical room for 10 months without embalming or refrigeration. What is interesting is that Circuit Judge Gary Oxenhandler ...
  4 days ago

• On Civil Rights, Virginia Foxx Revises History to Make Republicans Look Good

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  Is Rep. Virginia Foxx crazy? I don’t know, but she certainly says some crazy things. Consider a couple of things she said yesterday: – “Actually, the GOP has been the leader in starting good environmental programs in this country.” Maybe, if you go all the way back to the days of Teddy Roosevelt. More ...
  5 days ago

• Geithner’s Welcome Expired Long Ago

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  I told you so 7 months ago in my TMV post dated 3/19/09 and titled “It’s Time to Throw Geithner under the Bus.” Considering the growing chorus from the left, right and middle now calling for his termination or resignation, I re-read my original post. As always, I was prescient, accurate, and possibly ...
  5 days ago

• The Slow But Sure Rise Of Western China

  
  China Bystander — Authority: 124
  Western China’s economy is growing half as fast again as the economy as a whole. Xinhua reports a 12.5% growth in regional GDP in the first nine months of this year, with retail sales up 19%, also outstripping the national average. This Bystander has been wondering for a while whether there isn’t a slow but [...]
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• Warning: Police Chiefs May Quit

  
  A Tangled Rope — Authority: 429
  The head of TCPODNM (The Chief Police Officers who are Definitely Not Masons) warned last night that Tory plans to force the police to do what they are supposed to do, and actually catch criminals, may force some senior officers to resign (if only for gross incompetence). [Mind How You Go] Sir Hugh G. ...
  6 days ago

• Slow Going On Fighting Corruption

  
  China Bystander — Authority: 124
  China ranks 79th out of 180 on Transparency International’s latest annual rankings of how corrupt countries’ public sectors are perceived to be. Its score of 3.6 is equal to Burkino Faso, Swaziland and Trinidad and Tobago. Top ranked New Zealand scored 9.4; bottom-ranked Somalia scored 1.1.From the commentary on ...
  6 days ago

• You Give Me Expanded Coverage; I’ll Give You Cost Control

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  Ezra Klein reads over 2,000 pages of legislative language so you don’t have to. His conclusion: This bill is a “ grand bargain ” that achieves impressive levels of coverage while still cutting costs: This is how health-care reform controls costs. It is, at its base, a grand bargain: The coverage expansion ...
  6 days ago

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