Two-hour version available here They shoot, they score. Leaving aside that Mr. Schiller is an idiot for talking so transparently to people he didn’t know, let’s get serious, shall we? Anyone looked around the American Right today? This part of the transcript reveals the reality: SCHILLER: The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is [...]
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International Women’s Day Question: When Will U.S. Catch Up with Liberia?
It’s the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. It’s a good day to ponder when the United States will catch up with countries like Liberia. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected the 24th President of Liberia, but we are still contemplating the all boys’ club on the Left, while the Right ignites with an anti-feminist, anti-women [...]
The Apocalyptic Mr. Beck
What a weird column in the New York Times. But considering it’s subject is a moving target of calamity there’s a reason. It’s also not the first time someone has hinted about Glenn Beck’s demise. William Kristol writing on the real problem with Beck when he unrolled his caliphate rants: [H]ysteria is not a sign [...]
Obama Administration ‘Senior Official’: Women’s Rights in Afghanistan ‘special interest and pet project… pet rocks in our rucksack’
“Nobody wants to abandon the women of Afghanistan, but most Americans don’t want to keep fighting there for years and years,” the official said. “The grim reality is that, despite all of the talk about promoting women’s rights, things are going to have to give.” – In Afghanistan, U.S. shifts strategy on women’s rights as [...]
Queer Talk: The Bully(ing) Pulpit
A White House Conference on Bullying Prevention, scheduled for March 10, was announced on Tuesday of this week. Most likely it’s another 2012 action, but like many such bits and pieces thrown out by political campaigns masquerading as Very Serious Electeds, some good could come from it. Also reported this week was the death of [...]
Mike Huckabee Doubles Down with Obama ‘Anti-Americanism’
This is the type of thing you’d expect from Michele Bachmann, even Sarah Palin, that is until she distanced herself from this type of talk. But it’s no accident that Mr. Huckabee continues to fan the wingnut flames with ridiculous notions of Pres. Obama’s “anti-Americanism.” This is how the Right talks on right-wing radio. I [...]
First Amendment Protects Odious Speech Too
“Speech is powerful,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority. “It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and — as it did here — inflict great pain.” But under the First Amendment, he went on, “we cannot react to that pain by punishing the [...]
Woman in Ohio Moves to Relegate Women to Hostess of Fetus
“I think this one is more significant than all of the other bills combined,” Porter said. “It will be an arrow in the heart of Roe vs. Wade.” – Fetuses to be presented as witnesses before Ohio House committee This would be a good science fiction screenplay, maybe even an episode of ABC’s “V.” Undoubtedly, [...]
Mike Huckabee’s Venomous Charm
There are no coincidences on right-wing radio. When a potential Republican presidential candidate goes on right-wing radio and gets caught saying Pres. Barack Obama grew up “in Kenya” it isn’t by accident. “One thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, very different than [...]
Picture of the Week Represents Rolling World Events
**UPDATED** Oddly enough, the union battle in Wisconsin, which has the added element of Pres. Obama and the DNC entering, adds a U.S. labor element to workers rising up from Tunisia to Egypt to Bahrain and even Libya. Col Muammar Gaddafi is the longest-serving leader in the Arab world. Protests are not allowed in Libya, [...]
The Egyptian Dawning
… In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. … – CBS News News that Lara Logan experienced a “sustained sexual assault and beating” [...]
Egyptian Revolution Inspired by Liberalism
“He gave me a lesson in democracy and said: ‘We see the democracy the United States spearheaded in Iran and with Hamas, in Gaza, and that’s the fate of the Middle East,’” Ben-Eliezer said. “‘They may be talking about democracy but they don’t know what they’re talking about and the result will be extremism and [...]
ARMY TAKES OVER – MUBARAK STEPS DOWN
The Supreme Council for the Armed Forces has taken power from the Egyptian President. The Pharaoh has been toppled. From Al Jazeera, who played such an essential role in this story. Watch it live, it’s really chilling. The lump in my throat is keeping back the tears. What an incredible moment for the Egyptian people, [...]
Realpolitik Versus Egyptian Idealism
Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman warned Tuesday that “we can’t put up with” continued protests in Tahrir for a long time, saying the crisis must be ended as soon as possible in a sharply worded sign of increasing regime impatience with 16 days of mass demonstrations. — AP Realpolitik has prevailed so far, but Egyptians [...]
Bated Breath Alert: Sarah Palin Weighs in on Egypt
I guess if you want to make broad pronouncements about Egypt without being asked follow up questions the place to go is David Brody. Former governor Sarah Palin decided to weigh in with a quip, that Pres. Obama got his 3:00 a.m. phone call and “it seems that that call went right to um the [...]
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