MotherJones say Frank Rich’s article about Rumsfeld is too good to hide behind the Times-Select firewall. Here it is for all to read. Donald Rumsfeld’s Dance With the Nazis By FRANK RICH
soccerdad at the left coaster points to an essay by Immanuel Wallerstein, a sociologist at Binghamton University, titled The Tiger at Bay: Scary Times Ahead. A very well thought out analysis of our next two years [that I almost wish I hadn’t read].
Well, it’s officially midterm election season. In the last couple of weeks, we’ve had a full round of speeches from the principles – Cheney, Romsfeld, and Bush. The premier issue is Iraq. Each, in their own way, has branded dissent about this war as unpatriotic, or being "wrong." The basis of their attacking dissent has […]
I’m way outside of my skill-set here. There remains a low-level buzz [1][2][3] that Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is still at it – and that Cheney is his target. I have no way to evaluate whether it’s wishful thinking, or good sleuthing. It’s all based on the fact that there’s a lot of noise debunking Fitzgerald […]
Friedly Joe called my attention to an article I’d heard about, but missed – There Is Fascism, Indeed, by Keith Olbermann. It’s a commentary on the worst of the series of recent speeches at the American Legion gathering – Donald Rumsfeld’s speech in which he made the analogies between the Nazis and Hussein. It was […]
After learning to post videos from YouTube [thanks Abby], I resolved not to bombard you with them. But I did go through all those wonderful antiwar songs from the sixties. A lot of them are on YouTube – Buffy Saint Marie’s Universal Soldier, most of Dylan, Peter Paul and Mary, so many more. It was […]
from: Iraq Has Not Fallen Into Civil War A day after a Pentagon report described spreading sectarian violence and increasingly complex security problems in Iraq, President Bush painted a rosier picture. "Our commanders and diplomats on the ground believe that Iraq has not descended into a civil war," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio […]
from: Rove’s Word Is No Longer G.O.P. Gospel The White House said that Mr. Rove would consider an interview for this article if it were conducted off the record, with the provision that quotations could be put on the record with White House approval, a condition it said was set for other interviews with Mr. […]
Mayor Rocky Anderson Salt Lake City, Utah
If you haven’t seen this, it’s simply a must watch. What a brave [and wonderful] person, Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City. Here’s the transcript and here’s the whole video. The phrase, “the Emperor has no clothes,” should be replaced by “Rocky Anderson speaks.” I write this blog thing, day after day, knowing it’s […]