Israel isn’t a very big place. If it were a State, it would rank 48th in size [between NJ and CT] at a bit over eight thousand square miles. Space is a pretty big deal. Palestine occupies the Gaza Strip and the West Bank with a combined area of around two thousand two hundred square […]
A well thought out set of comments from someone who is obviously not afraid… Words have consequences. That thought seems completely lost on the Fox News network, which launches a daily rhetorical assault on Obama, starting with the "Fox and Friends" morning show. The anti-Obama beat goes on through the day, and reaches a fevered […]
Krugman Says No Signs of ‘V-Shaped’ Economic RecoveryBloombergBy Dara Doyle and Louisa NesbittJune 5, 2009 Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said the world’s economy is showing “not a hint” of a “V-shaped” recovery marked by a swift decline and revival. The economy is “stabilizing, not recovering,” Krugman, an economics professor at Princeton University in New […]
In the US Attorney firing hearings, a freshman Senator, Sheldon Whitehouse, emerged as a star. He showed us a chart of how the DoJ had been invaded by the Bush Administration White House: The topic of my last post shows us why this was such a disaster – for the DoJ and for the country…
Back during the Hearings about the U.S. Attorney firings, we met an unusual character named James Comey. He was Deputy Attorney General under AG John Ashcroft. What was unusual about him was that he was an honest man, a person whose integrity was visible from a hundred yards. During his tenure, John Ashcroft got sick, […]
Cheney Blames Richard Clarke For 9/11: ‘He Missed It’ ThinkProgress08/06/2009 …Speaking at the National Press Club today, Cheney struck back at Clarke. When asked about Clarke’s argument, Cheney — once again — invoked the “burning ashes” of 9/11 and the victims who leaped to their deaths from the World Trade Center. Then, quite succinctly, Cheney […]
The Cairo Speech New York Times: Editorial June 4, 2009 When President Bush spoke in the months and years after Sept. 11, 2001, we often — chillingly — felt as if we didn’t recognize the United States. His vision was of a country racked with fear and bent on vengeance, one that imposed invidious choices […]
JUNE 5, 2009 O’REILLY: Okay? The bottom line on it is that President Bush may have been right in a lot of the things that he said and did during the war on terror in his administration. But the Muslim world would not listen to him. They wouldn’t. They didn’t like him. They hated him. […]
My apologies for posting so much of emptywheel’s comment here. But I think it’s a mammoth point, and everything she has to say seems important – even beyond her usual superlative analysis. The Hill’s Campfire Games on Intelligence Briefings By: emptywheel June 5, 2009 The Hill has a childish article out–one that encourages our Congress […]