Growing concerns over protests roiling Libya prompted the State Department to begin evacuating some diplomats from Tripoli, as the Pentagon put troops stationed at nearby European bases on high alert. [Washington Post] YOU READ that correctly, amid the furor over the testimony of Greg Hicks, the Washington Post is reporting we’re evacuating some diplomats from [...]
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Who Doesn’t Like Joe Biden?
THE MAN who wants to be the next president, Joe Biden, has done a Rolling Stone interview. It begins where you think it would, debating between he and the woman that is very much on the minds of Republicans. But can he get elected president at 74? If he’s up against Chris Christie, I just [...]
Ted Cruz: “Republican Crush,” Democrat’s “Face” of Opposition Choice
At Taking Points Memo, Brian Beutler writes, “Meet Democrats’ Newest Republican Crush: Ted Cruz?!?!” At the Dallas Morning News, Wayne Slater writes that Obama’s trip to Texas today is to “make Ted Cruz-Republicans the face of Washington opposition.” Both, I’d guess, are accurate. From Beutler, at TPM: (Democrats) distaste for his (Cruz) antics and his [...]
Big Money’s Obama or Obama’s Big Money?
The fact is, of course, that the two questions point to the same thing: Obama’s big money and Big Money’s Obama (as Vice.com put it) are both descriptive of the same big, bipartisan election / governance system that to a very significant extent runs our nation. From Matt Taylor, at Vice: Last week, in an [...]
Media Storm: Gosnell, Harpootlian, Mike Huckabee and Benghazi
IT’S happening everywhere in the media, anywhere you choose to read lately. Gosnell, Harpootlian, Mike Huckabee and Benghazi, all leading to the second term curse that’s lapping at the White House lawn. The media digging down to find an alternative narrative to balance just how whacky those right wing Republicans have gotten since Sarah Palin [...]
Bill Clinton on Hillary: Stop Obsessing
PERHAPS Bill Clinton should call Rush Limbaugh and Darrel Issa, as well as all the Republicans turning their sights on her over Benghazi. From Politico: The former president hasn’t shied away from encouraging his wife to seek the White House but in an appearance at a fiscal policy summit today, he derided the obsession over [...]
Benghazi “Whistler-blowers” and the Partisan Hacks
Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, told congressional investigators that the State Department internal review of the catastrophe at the mission in Benghazi “let people off the hook,” CNN has learned. [CNN] THERE ARE no two people more associated with partisan brawls than Joseph diGenova and Victoria [...]
Queer Talk: Jason Collins, Limbaugh “Rams,” Samuel “Flaunts”
Guess what Rush Limbaugh using “ramming” and Asante Samuel using “flaunting” are about? NBA player Jason Collins coming out, of course. Limbaugh and Samuel (Atlanta Falcon cornerback) are confused at why the gays need to come out, which they interpret, of course, in terms of sex. At Think Progress, from Zack Ford: On his show [...]
Queer Talk: Rhode Island Approves Marriage Equality
Even before the vote by which Rhode Island became the 10th state to recognize marriage equality, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, wrote a “pastoral letter” to the state’s Catholics. … I wish to invite members of the Catholic Church in Rhode Island to a moment of prayer and [...]
Marco Rubio Swings for Immigration Fences
Next week, the Senate will begin making changes to and, hopefully, improve the immigration-reform legislation I introduced with several colleagues last month. This part of the process is a chance to fix America’s broken immigration system and end today’s de facto amnesty for those who live here illegally. It will also show that Washington can [...]
Jim Porter, New NRA President: Obama a “Fake President”
“We’re whipping their ass everywhere we can go, right and left, up and down.” – Jim Porter, new (unpaid) NRA president THE NEW president of the NRA, James “Jim” Porter II, is some piece of work as you’ll see in the video over at Gawker. But his claims of NRA’s wins may turn out to [...]
Obama Puts Politics Over Science with Plan B Appeal
AH, yes, paternalism. America’s Father, Barack Obama, finally deciding to fight hard, but it’s to keep a perfectly safe medical product away from young teen girls. He thinks it will keep them from having sex or if they do it will force them to go to a parent or guardian if they get into trouble. [...]
What Should Obama Do About Syria?
IN ALL the ramped up rhetoric over Syria, the question is not just what should Obama do about it, but also how much support does he have in the American public to launch military action? Eli Lake has a post up today that will give you pause. A recent New York Times/CBS poll presents real [...]
Partisanship on the Rise Among Millennials
A recent poll from Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) shows partisanship increasing among younger (13 to 29 years of age) Americans. In fact, the results reveal the age group is not only “more divided” along Republican and Democratic lines, but the divisions are “hardening.” Independent voters, meanwhile, are “tuning out.” See the report of the [...]
Gitmo Torture Memoir of Mohamedou Ould Slahi
SLATE has published excerpts of a Gitmo torture memoir that should be required reading in Congress and in the Obama administration. It should then be passed to Ron Fournier who recently wrote a sloppy love poem to George W. Bush. The first installment of the torture memoir is here, but hold on, because it unmasks, [...]
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