© Mike Luckovich While I support the intervention in Libya, and I particularly approve of the fact that it is authorized by the UN and the Arab League, I still think Obama did a full flop on it.
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The new president of the Marshall Islands has a problem on his hands. The rising global temperature is causing sea levels to rise, which threatens to obliterate his country. Which is a real downer. His solution is unorthodox. By executive order, he has legalized the use of cocaine, “the real thing, uncut and pure, the […]
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
© Matt Wuerker Isn’t Congress supposed to declare war? Why did this stop happening?
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Yesterday, John McCain appeared on the CBS morning show and called for arming the rebels in Libya who are fighting against Moammar Gadhafi. But what he really did was dish up a triple helping of hypocrisy and irony. McCain twice called for the ouster of Gadhafi because the Libyan dictator has “American blood on his […]
The way Republicans talk about it, you’d think health care reform was the black plague. © Tom Toles I’m noticing a new tactic, however. Instead of trying to repeal health care reform outright, they instead are trying to eliminate the individual mandate. What they don’t tell you is that without universal health insurance, costs will […]
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When did we stop being the good guys? This is the kind of thing we used to denounce communist dictatorships for doing. Abe Mashal is a 31-year-old man who lives in a suburb of Chicago. He’s a veteran — an honorably discharged ex-Marine. Married, with kids. Owns his own business. Fairly normal in most respects […]
Right now, the biggest issue for voters is the economy, and recent polls have shown that voters are becoming increasingly in favor of allowing gays to marry. But that doesn’t matter in Iowa, which seems to have gotten stuck in the politics of the last century. The Iowa caucuses are the first test of the […]
© Stuart Carlson As John Steinbeck is purported to have said, Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. That’s the only reason I can see why people in the US continue to vote against their own interests.
We just passed the eighth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, and here is how much money we thrown down the drain on it: The Cost of the War in Iraq (JavaScript Error)
Newt Gingrich, who for all intents and purposes is running for US president, went on Fox News on Thursday in order to slam Obama for publicly stating his NCAA basketball bracket during a time of crisis (by which I assume Gingrich is referring to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan). But it is the strangest […]
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Five minutes after voting to cut off federal funding for NPR, the House of Representatives voted to continue funding the War in Afghanistan. How much will defunding NPR help reduce the deficit? Lemme see, according to the CBO, it will save, hmmm, absolutely nothing. How long did Congress spend debating a measly $5 million in […]
The Tea Party promised to get away from crony politics as usual, so why is it that new South Carolina governor Nikki Haley just dumped a widely respected member of the University of South Carolina Board of Trustees and replaced her with someone who donated money to Haley’s political campaign? Students at the university reacted […]
Republicans are determined to silence the only large media outlet that is not completely controlled by corporate interests. Of course, they won’t admit to that — they claim that they are trying to save taxpayer money. Even though the CBO says that the move to defund NPR will not save a penny of the taxpayer’s […]
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Two county-level Democratic leaders in Michigan are charged with nine felonies for forging election paperwork to get fake Tea Party candidates on last November’s ballot. If convicted, they face up to 14 years in prison. Curiously, it would not have been illegal for the Democratic officials to help get Tea Party candidates on the ballot […]
© Matt Davies The only thing heating up more than the Japanese Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant is the propaganda war here in the US over whether we should use nuclear power to help solve our energy needs. I don’t have the answer, but I do know that the arguments being made by both sides are […]
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