Democrats say CIA may have misled Congress on interrogations 5 times The Hill By Jared Allen 10/27/09 The CIA may have misled Congress at least five times since 2001, two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday. Intelligence subcommittee Chairwomen Jan Schakowsky [D-Ill] and Anna Eshoo [D-Calif] are leading an investigation into what they […]
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. not George W. Bush Greenspan Says U.S. Should Consider Breaking Up Large Banks Bloomberg By Michael McKee and Scott Lanman October 15, 2009 U.S. regulators should consider breaking up large financial institutions considered “too big to fail,” former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan […]
blah, blah, blah… Somebody Buy Joe Lieberman a Puppy FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right By Nate Silver 10/26/09 The reason this is a little scary for Democrats is because the usual things that serve to motivate a Congressman don’t seem to motivate Joe Lieberman. Would voting to filibuster the Democrats’ health care bill (if it […]
I concluded previously [in who is Alan Greenspan…]: There is great irony here. Karl Marx envisioned Communism to deal with the abuses of Capitalism. But the Russian Immigrant Ayn Rand, fleeing the abuses of Communism, created an equally idealized scheme of Capitalism that had a part to play by proxy [via Greenspan] in almost sinking […]
Bartlett Eviscerates Zuckerman on Obama’s Spending Daily KOS by MeteorBlades 10/26/2009 Actually, Bruce Bartlett – a Reagan Treasury official and supply sider who remains conservative but has acidly critiqued Reaganomics and Bushanomics – took on not just Zuckerman but deficit hawks in general at his blog: Yesterday [Friday], Mort Zuckerman, owner of the New York […]
What If Trials Prove Torture Wasn’t Necessary? By: emptywheel October 26, 2009 Cynthia Kouril and Adam Serwer and both have really good smackdowns of Mukasey’s op-ed against civilian trials. Cynthia writes, The thing that bothers me most about this article though, comes near the end: Nevertheless, critics of Guantanamo seem to believe that if we […]
The news cycle has been something of a bore of late – not much going on. But that leaves time for an excursion or two. Now here’s a mythbuster of the first magnitude. Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt. Facing overwhelming odds, the British prevailed because of the accuracy and skill of the English […]
I’m over caring about Fox News too. I can understand why the White House is tired of messing with them. They’ve become something of a study in vaudevillian kibitzing, but little else. How do you argue with the point of throwing a frog in boiling water, then claiming it wasn’t really a frog? I posted […]
Right after deciding on swearing off the hate media, I ran across this too-good-to-pass-up story. On Friday, Rush Limbaugh went off on Obama about some thesis Obama wrote at Columbia called "Aristocracy Reborn" in which he [Obama] said he had reservations about the Constitution [Obama’s Disdain for the Constitution]. Limbaugh got this information from a […]