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By Steve Hynd
David Milliband, the British Foreign Secretary, is a typical Blairite. If his lips are moving, he's spinning something - nothing gets said without it serving a domestic political purpose. Yesterday he had this to say about Afghanistan :
In an interview with the Guardian at ...
World
Afghanistan
Foreign Policy
By Ron Beasley DaveNoon at Lawyers, Guns and Money is reading Going Rogue so we don't have too. Now I'm not really interested in even reading about the book but I found this amusing. I realize this is a pedantic complaint, but would it be possible for Sarah Palin to launch her chapters with ...
White House
Sarah Palin
By John Ballard
Let us turn our attention away from the turkeys in Washington to those in the grocery stores. Thanksgiving Day is nigh. Purists may want to consider a real turkey this year instead of what we have been taught to eat in recent years. I've not had one, incidentally. They're ...
World
Turkey
Commentary By Ron Beasley
Here in my State of Oregon it was announced this week that health insurance premiums will be going up 16 percent in 2010. Some employers will increase the amount of the employees share while some small and medium sized businesses will be priced out and have to ...
Other
Health care
By John Ballard
Frank Sharry is Founder and Executive Director of America's Voice. With
the support of allies in the immigration reform community, he created
the new organization in early 2008 to focus on communications and media
as part of a renewed effort to win comprehensive immigration ...
World
Commentary By Ron Beasley
I am old enough to remember the thrill of the moon landings and the national pride that followed. There was little doubt that The United States was the worlds technology leader. Thanks to foolish wars and tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent the mantle of ...
World
China
Washington, D.C
Foreign Policy
United States
Russia
By Steve Hynd
Last December I wrote : "it is already an accepted fact among the Very Serious Person set that Obama's idea of negotiation without preconditions will get exactly one shot, will fail, and then the bombs will begin to fall." Well, that looks to be the way events are turning.
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World
Iran
Barack Obama
Foreign Policy
By John Ballard
Said before. Now once again.
What a golden opportunity has been missed to educate Americans about the implications of their health care choices. Otis W. Brawley, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, in an op-ed in today's Washington Post condemning ...
Other
Washington Post
Health care
By Dave Anderson: Another edition of what Ian Welsh said: If you’ve been right down the line, then you are precisely the sort
of person who isn’t “serious” and shouldn’t be listened to when it
comes to what it takes to fix the problem. Why? Because everyone knows that fixing the problem will ...
White House
Barack Obama
By Russ Wellen
THE DEPROLIFERATOR -- As you no doubt know, deterrence is the product of a balance of power -- nuclear arsenals, in other words, that are roughly equal. Constrained by the eye-for-an-eye principle, but to the umpteenth power, states armed with nuclear weapons, such as the ...
World
Foreign Policy
Commentary By Ron Beasley
The wingers are outraged. Why? Because Sen. Patrick Leahy said there was no reason to interrogate Osama bin Laden if he's captured . This was a stupid thing for Leahy to say but the outrage is just as stupid.
The writers of fiction know it , movie makers know ...
World
Afghanistan
Foreign Policy
Barack Obama
by Eric Martin
Johann Hari has a fascinating piece in The Independent that recounts his interviews with several British nationals that have made the journey from active participantsin jihadi/terrorist causes and back. Hari's quest to find out how and why certain ...
World
By Steve Hynd
Dan Froomkin asks today what I asked yesterday : what's taking so long with Obama's AfPak decision? And he comes to the same answer: fear of the Wuss Factor .
according to Paul R. Pillar, a Georgetown University professor who formerly served as the CIA's chief intelligence ...
World
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
Foreign Policy
Organizing For America
This is a country ruled by kings. The king’s brothers, cousins and sons are all powerful. - Ahmed Wali Karzai, the President’s brother
By Steve Hynd
Hamid Karzai has survived his inauguration for a second term as Afghanitan's president, and has spoken like a King: he has promised to end ...
World
Afghanistan
Foreign Policy
Organizing For America
By Dave Anderson:
Schradenfreude may strike Texas, as a plain reading of their anti-gay marriage laws and amendments that passed in 2005 implies the possibility of all marriages not being legal in Texas. [h/t James Joyner ] From McClatchey:
The amendment, approved by the Legislature and ...
Congress
By Dave Anderson:
Accidental systems disruption happened in New York earlier this week. Fox has the local story:
The Department of Environmental Protection says the spill occurred when a contractor drilled into a jet fuel system of the Buckeye Partners at Skillman Avenue and 37th Street. ...
Other
Commentary By Ron Beasley
No, it's not the dreaded "liberals" who are singing that song to Sarah Palin, it's the Republicans and conservatives who dream of winning again. First we have Conservative and Evangelical Christian Rod Dreher : The rap on Palin is that she's too shallow and ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Commentary By Ron Beasley
No, it's not the dreaded "liberals" who are singing that song to Sarah Palin, it's the Republicans and conservatives who dream of winning again. First we have Conservative and Evangelical Christian Rod Dreher : The rap on Palin is that she's too shallow and ...
White House
Sarah Palin
By John Ballard
This is too long to tweet and too short to blog, but too good to miss. Tom Watson riffs on the Palin phenomenon. Journalistic poetry.
... Newsweek went with the full Joan on its cover this week, fronting essays by Evan Thomas and Christopher Hitchens, pieces that are ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Andrew Sullivan
By John Ballard
This quote speaks for itself. For a fuller view go to the link.
Hospitals have no incentives to prevent unnecessary hospitalization. Physicians, paid mostly by fee-for-service, have every incentive to order more tests and procedures. Neither is rewarded directly for ...
