I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence. – President Barack Obama Witness the pro selective life policies of the extremists on the [...]
Archive | May, 2009
World News Blast, and Podcast
New podcast is up. Features include: Hot Topics (Susan Boyle, McAuliffe); Hunting Sotmayor; Petreaus on Gitmo – Torture; Israel, Obama, Saudis, Egypt. In other news today, Newt keeps pushing, now calling Judge Sotomayor “un-American” in an email blast. Michael Scherer at Time has the whole email. Not even reading it is believing. You read that [...]
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Week Ending 5.30.09 – Hot Topics (Susan Boyle, McAuliffe); Hunting Sotmayor; Petreaus on Gitmo – Torture; Israel, Obama, Saudis, Egypt.
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Health Care Hit Job to Air on NBC
This ad is filled with distortions. It’s set to air immediately following “Meet the Press” this Sunday. One item in it is easily debunked from HHS: The council will not recommend clinical guidelines for payment, coverage or treatment. The council will consider the needs of populations served by federal programs and opportunities to build and [...]
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Salon: Taguba Denies UK Paper Report
–updated– Mark Benjamin reports: Retired Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba denied reports that he has seen the prisoner-abuse photos that President Obama is fighting to keep secret, in an exclusive interview with Salon Friday night. When the Telegraph first reported their story I didn’t post on it. Now it turns out that when the Telegraph [...]
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Hunting Sotomayor
Republicans are now in a full on hunt to kill Judge Sotomayor’s nomination. G. Gordon Liddy referring to Judge Sotomayor’s cycle: Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then. Rush Limbaugh comparing [...]
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Catching Up with Clinton
Secretary Clinton calls it “21st Century Statecraft.” CitizenTube has more: Fresh on the heels of our launch of the U.S. Government Channel on YouTube last week, Secretary Clinton just posted a video to the State Department’s YouTube channel on the topic of “21st Century Statecraft.” Aimed at Americans, the video lives on State’s long-running public [...]
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Pentagon and Administration Denial of Explicit Photos Become the Issue
I knew it wouldn’t take long before another aspect of the Telegraph’s reporting would open up to make the yet unreleased torture photos a bigger story than it was. Scott Horton’s got confirmation. The Daily Beast has confirmed that the photographs of abuses at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, which President Obama, in a reversal, decided [...]
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WSJ: Republican Attackers of Sotomayor are ‘Idiots’
graphic via Well, it took them all week, but a lonely few in the Republican Party, including the WSJ and Senator Cornyn, have decided they’ve got more to lose than gain if they keep up the attack on Judge Sotomayor, especially since the attackers decided to go personal instead of through the issues, which is [...]
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Everything But the ‘B’ Word
Oh, can we just get it over with already? Call Judge Sotomayor a bitch shrill so we can just move on. As if on cue, here comes the New York Times with a heading that is meant to do everything but that: Sotomayor’s Sharp Tongue Raises Issue of Temperament. Raises this issue with whom? Rush [...]
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Obama to Stop in Saudi Arabia Before Egypt
Playing out this week, before Pres. Obama travels to the Muslim world, is Mahmoud Abbas coming to the White House. Eric Alterman talks about the weakness of Abbas, which is an understatement. But considering Israel has done all they can to weaken him it’s no wonder. Bush was no help either. Pres. Obama would do [...]
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From Dumb Broad to Emotional
photo 13 Republicans are running amok on how to attack Sotomayor most effectively. Nothing is sticking. They started by trying out the Harriet Miers theory that Judge Sotomayor was basically some dumb broad who is where she is because of race, even twisting that into she’s a racist herself. Karl Rove tried one tactic when [...]
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Israel Rebuffs Obama, Clinton on Settlements
Secretary Clinton once again reiterated Pres. Obama’s policy on Israeli settlements yesterday, mincing no words. The Obama administration reiterated emphatically on Wednesday that it viewed a complete freeze of construction in settlements on the West Bank as a critical step toward a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians. Speaking of President Obama, Secretary of [...]
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Sotomayor Viewed Favorably by Public
Newt Gingrich will have to try harder, yell louder, Twitter his racist screeds more regularly: “White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.” Round one on the roll out goes to Pres. Obama. Americans’ first reactions to the news of President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to [...]
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Liveblogging CSIS Journo Panel: Afghanistan – Pakistan
Reporting from CSIS Listen/watch taped event –updated– 5:40:58 PM: Bob Schieffer, moderator; Edward Luce, Nancy Youssef, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, David Sanger. 5:45:00 PM: Schiefer: Bush saw it as 2 policies; Obama sees it as one. 5:47:40 PM: Sanger: Obama policy says nothing about “democratization,” it’s about getting al Qaeda, which is in Pak. 5:49:42 PM: Chandra.: [...]
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TM Must Reads
THE 21st century world offers ways to tweak your appearance, or alter it altogether, with women finally able to combat directly the comparison that’s always been around. Men look distinguished as they age, while women look old, unattractive, or to use Rush Limbaugh’s favorite comment, who wants to look at a woman with wrinkles? The 2012 plastic surgery statistics are out and the American Society of Plastic Surgery tells the story.
The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details what’s been going on.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.
“Norma Rae is a survivor and for the first time in her life she’s got a chance to become something more… a winner.” – Promo for “Norma Rae” CRITICS like Anne-Marie Slaughter, but especially Maureen I-Love-My-Pearls Dowd, and others [most of whom didn't read the book or do their homework] who are blaming Sheryl Sandberg for being a billionaire Ivy League graduate, while accusing her of letting corporations and government off the hook, are missing a major point.
Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, light a candle or two, and queue up a sexy playlist on your iPod.
“You Don’t Own Me” PSA -Official from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo. WHO DOESN’T know the song “You Don’t Own Me,” sung by Leslie Gore? The movie First Wives Club helped to reignite the relevancy of the song.
“Last night I interviewed Jill Stein the presidential candidate for the Green Party on this show. And I confess right now, I should have asked her to just get out of the race.” – Jennifer Granholm, “The War Room” [Current TV] THE ARGUMENT Jennifer Granholm makes above is a tactic that no longer fits the times.
“With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute,” Chief Oates said. [New York Times] IN THE GAPING MAW of our leadership vacuum stands Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates, whose resolve, vulnerability and humility inside the vortex of a man made hell revealed what nobody in Congress or either political party has shown in decades. Leadership without regard to anything but his own duty to the people, which included the cops in the eye of volcanic carnage.
“Rick Doblin has done a lot for the field, but he is more of a populist,” Grob says. “We need careful and controlled scientific studies showing the efficacy of these drugs so funding can continue.” Broader awareness of these sorts of end-of-life psychedelic studies could be good for everyone, the researchers say.
*updated below* So much for keep calm and carry on, what Joe Scarborough proclaims to be his motto. It was the weirdest one-on-one back and forth with a high profile talking head imaginable. It makes high school look mature.
**UPDATED** Would we be any worse off with Stephen Colbert as president? I doubt it. Politifact has watched the video “(repeatedly!
Despite rising public concern about the federal budget deficit, Americans favor keeping Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are rather than taking steps to reduce the budget deficit (by 60% vs. 32%). – Public Wants Changes in Entitlements, Not Changes in Benefits This is starting early, so it’s time to revisit the facts.
“If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.” – Sect. Hillary Clinton Women can do it, too.
The interview with Obama by George Stephanopoulos wasn’t nearly as contentious as the interview with the Edwardses. No Republican talking points from Stephanopoulos yesterday, like when he accused Edwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: “Do you think the Democrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off funding for the troops?” Or this one: “You know, a lot of Democrats still in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater.
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