Fast and Furious, Benghazi, IRS targeting of opposition political groups, spying on journalists in the AP and Fox News (and surely others), murder drones, killing American citizens without a semblance of due process, mass spying by attaining broad phone records of millions of Americans for years. It seems to me that it’s about time time […]
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Punished. For protecting a fellow student from a knife-wielding bully. Wait, what? Yes, you read that right. A bully was in an altercation with a kid in middle school. A third student stepped in and assisted by pushing the bully out of the way. He was called in to the principal’s office and . . […]
It’s as if the words “Congress shall make no law” have some room for interpretation or something. The New Yorker: In the long run, to rebalance the national-security state and to otherwise revitalize American democracy, the United States requires a Supreme Court willing to deepen protections for investigative reporters, as the majority in Branzburg would […]
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I’m really fucking glad to know that the tax dollars that are stolen from my income are used to subsidize rich people driving fancy cars. First, there’s the $7500 taxback bonus that every buyer gets and every taxpayer pays. Then there are generous state subsidies ($2500 in California, $4000 in Illinois—the bluer the state, the […]
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Glenn Greenwald on President Obama’s rhetorical style: The hallmark of a skilled politician is the ability to speak to a group of people holding widely disparate views, and have all of them walk away believing they heard what they wanted to hear. Other than Bill Clinton, I’ve personally never seen a politician even in the […]
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Upstate New York has three feet of global warming for you.
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This is a representative of the hard working, blue collared salt of the earth. The New York Post: Union fat cat Mark Rosenthal spends more time sleeping at his desk than organizing labor, a series of damning photos reveals. [. . .] “He eats lunch when he arrives at work at 2 p.m. Then, like […]
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Gee. How could there be unintended consequences with such well thought-out law? ”There are some important and under-discussed ethical issues in depriving people of their rights,” he said. ”But somehow, when you are a patient, your rights to do as you please are suddenly suspended – even if you are not hurting other people.” As […]
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President Obama: Earning the fuck out of that Nobel Peace Prize. You know, because he’s promised us that he will kill fewer people than he has been. The New York Times: As part of the shift in approach, the administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four American citizens […]
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Gee. I was under the impression that the left hated the mingling of money and politics. The Nation: The Center for American Progress, Washington’s leading liberal think tank, has been a big backer of the Energy Department’s $25 billion loan guarantee program for renewable energy projects. CAP has specifically praised First Solar, a firm that […]
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