“When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims.” – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev RETRIBUTION for crimes against Muslims, the note Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left said, according to CBS News. From CBS: Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a note claiming responsibility for the April 13 attack on the Boston Marathon, reports CBS News senior correspondent John Miller. [...]
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News Desk — CNN: Caroline Kennedy Asked by Obama to be U.S. Ambassador to Japan
THE NEWS has been rumored for weeks. Caroline Kennedy has been asked to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Japan and is being vetted for the post, a Democrat familiar with the discussions told CNN on Monday. [CNN]
Republicans Target Ashley Judd, and Tucker Carlson’s Beat is Her Boobs
We are used to knowing just about everything there is to know about serious political candidates. But will Judd be the first potential senator who has — literally — nothing left to show us? [...] In both 1996′s “Norma Jean and Marilyn” and 1999′s “Eye of the Beholder,” Judd went full frontal and bared her [...]
Top Story — President Obama Lays Out Democratic Vision
EVERY DEMOCRAT and progressive had to thoroughly enjoy the Inauguration of President Obama. It was a marvelous ceremony, and the star of the whole day was just as much First Lady Michelle Obama and her high fashion statement, as the President himself. As for President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address, it was a manifesto for what [...]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Bobby Kennedy Said Warren Commission was “Shoddy Piece of Craftsmanship”
IN AN interview with Charlie Rose, the son of Bobby Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was blunt about his father’s thoughts on whether John F. Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman. The interview coincides with the 50 year anniversary of J.F.K.’s assassination, which happened on November 22, 1963, later this year. Robert F. Kennedy, [...]
Right Smears John Brennan as “Arabist,” Ignores Purge of “Arabist” James Baker Wing
IF YOU want to start dissecting what’s happened to the sane branch of the Republican Party, it dates back to Georg H.W. Bush and James Baker, a time when realism in foreign policy took over for Ronald Reagan’s ramshackle militarism that led to Iran-Contra and near impeachment. The big story in the Republican Party over [...]
Matt Damon in Playboy: “No Matter How Hard You Work To Change Things, It Just Doesn’t Matter”
NO SUCK ups, please. Your party and political position exist for your own amusement or delusion. You can’t impact a thing. Unless you’re a member of the Tea Party, that much maligned and mocked political entity that continues to send shudders through our government and populace. They’ve succeeded in hamstringing the Speaker of the House [...]
You’re a Crazy Gun Nut If… Piers Morgan Edition [Video]
WHEN YOU have your own show you get your own platform. Sticking your neck out and speaking your mind against the horde is one of the most American of traits. It’s just very few people are willing to do it and incur the wrath of the wingnuts, as well as take the economic hit that [...]
Ben Affleck on Kerry’s Senate Seat: “One Never Knows”
RIGHT NOW Scott Brown is leading Democrats by a mile in Massachusetts, as a recent WBUR poll showed, also revealing holding Kerry’s seat after a placeholder is appointed against Brown will require a smart campaign by a good candidate. The closest Democrat to Brown in popularity is Martha Coakley, who ran a horrible race last [...]
Chris Christie’s Weight Is a Presidential Health Issue
“That’s ridiculous,” said Christie. “I mean, that’s ridiculous. I don’t know what the basis for that is.” [ABC News] GOVERNOR CHRIS Christie is wrong. What’s worse is that he appears to be in denial, too. His weight is an issue when considering him for the presidency and voters are right to consider it as one. [...]
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Legacy it Left Behind [Videos]
THE ASSASSINATION of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the beginning of the shredding of government trust in the modern era. On this Thanksgiving Day, with all the news swirling around Benghazi, our secret drone wars and our fetish for the “zipless coup,” the legacy of Kennedy’s murder and the doubt and distrust of our government is [...]
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Exhausted, Obama Opens Up and His Cool Cracks
“Thank you. This is your victory.” – Words posted beneath the video above on Barack Obama’s YouTube channel ONE THING people who never get close to campaigns or ever meet candidates, including those who lose, ever get to see is the toll of a long election cycle. What candidates go through on the presidential level [...]
50 Years Ago, John F. Kennedy Talks to Eisenhower on Cuban Missile Crisis [Audio]
THIS COINCIDES with a new book on JFK. From the JFK Library: As President, John F. Kennedy was the ultimate arbiter of American foreign and millitary policy. But there were still a number of former presidents he could consult with, including President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In this phone conversation, Kennedy asks Eisenhower what he believes [...]
Cuban Missile Crisis 50 Years Later, and Classic TV Drama that Captured the Times [Full Video]
IT WAS 50 years ago today that John F. Kennedy viewed the aerial photographer that became the Cuban Missile Crisis. The 1974 made-for-television docudrama that told the story is one of the classics of the modern era. Some of you may remember George Clooney’s “Fail Safe,” a live drama on CBS back in 2000 [clip [...]
Arlen Specter, Author of “Magic Bullet” Theory, Passes
Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced. Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at his home in Philadelphia, his family said. He was 82. [...]
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