Wednesday, December 14, 2011
I filed this under Humor because I think it is hilarious. It would be even funnier if it weren’t so scary.
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
The Senate has passed a defense authorization bill that allows the military to indefinitely detain American citizens on US soil, without trial or even charges. Goodbye due process, goodbye rule of law, goodbye sixth (and fourth) amendment, and if the government can arbitrarily throw citizens in prison forever, what do any other rights mean? Here […]
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Glenn Greenwald published an outstanding rebuke of our apparent policy of endless war Nov 23rd in Salon. I think that a certain Nobel Peace Prize winner would benefit from reading more Greenwald: Anonymous U.S. officials this morning are announcing in The Washington Post that they have effectively defeated what they call “the organization that brought […]
Jon Stewart on the end of the Libyan war and the Republican reaction to it. The best part is the second half.
I don’t want to celebrate the death of Muammar Gaddafi even though he was responsible for the Lockerbie bombing, one of the worst acts of terrorism (other than 9/11). But I do want to point out something hypocritical. When Obama decided to help out the Libyan rebels who were fighting Gaddafi, he was repeatedly criticized […]
Sunday, September 11, 2011
So far, presidential candidate Herman Cain is the winner of the “most crass use of 9/11 for political gain award” for this bizarre tribute video: Former Republican congressman and now cable morning show host Joe Scarborough can at least sing in his tribute video:
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
© Matt Bors UPDATE: From Paul Krugman: Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued? Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd. What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. […]
© Tom Tomorrow When are we going to get some of that increased transparency that Obama promised?
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© Matt Bors I am so glad Palin is no longer holding any elected office.
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© Andy Singer Osama bin Laden often said that his goal was to bankrupt our economy. Let’s make sure he didn’t succeed.
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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 […]
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 […]
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Back in November, we quoted Bruce Schneier who claimed that the new TSA full body scanners won’t catch anybody. This is significant, because if we are going to unconditionally surrender our right to privacy, expose ourselves to dangerous X-rays, and pretty much roll over, it would be nice if we were doing all that so […]
Amazing news from Egypt: Muslims showed up at Christmas Eve mass services in churches around Egypt and at candle light vigils held outside, offering their bodies and lives as “shields” to Egypt’s threatened Christian community. Among those shields were beloved comedian Adel Imam and movie star Yousra, popular Muslim televangelist and preacher Amr Khaled, the […]
Thursday, December 23, 2010
In his first TV interview since being released from jail, Julian Assange makes several very strong points: First, Assange makes the point that WikiLeaks is a legitimate part of the media, and if people think they can avoid government attack by not defending WikiLeaks they don’t understand history: They believe that if they sell us […]
