Still No Government in Iraq (cross-posted at firedoglake) (photo by Mohammed Hato – AP) Iraq's top legislator postponed the meeting of parliament scheduled for Monday, putting off “for a few days” an attempt to resolve a months-long deadlock over the formation of the country's new government. The move was not entirely unexpected, but it still [...]
Washington Post Hits Blair Over Iran Split
Washington Post Hits Blair Over Iran Split (cross-posted at firedoglake) Huffington Post has a very interesting entry up this morning. Tony Blair has canceled an upcoming trip to America to avoid being photographed with Bush. The prime minister was scheduled to visit the US this spring for meetings with the president, but the trip was [...]
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Our Founding Fathers, Faith and the Democrats
Our Founding Fathers, Faith and the Democrats (cross-posted at firedoglake) “… But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. … Reason and free enquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Give a loose to them, [...]
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If It’s Sunday, It’s Misogyny
(cross-posted on firedoglake) I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, the person who dragged me out of bed for church every Sunday was my mother. Frankly, I suspect that if you took a poll around this country, women would be the impetus for at least 50% of the homes getting religion [...]
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Easter Sunday Talking Head Thread
Easter Sunday Talking Head Thread (cross-posted at firedoglake) Compliments of the Washington Post, a little babble to go with your breakfast. FOX NEWS SUNDAY: Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Mitch McConnell; former Speaker Newt Gingrich THIS WEEK (ABC): Retired General Richard Meyers; Senator Evan Bayh and Richard Lugar; Harry Connick on New Orleans. FACE [...]
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John McCain Losing Ground by Going Right
John McCain Losing Ground by Going Right (cross-posted at firedoglake) The one really intriguing nugget of data in the new Cook Political Report/RT Strategies poll has to do with 2008. Thus far, when Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., have been matched up in hypothetical ballot tests, McCain has won each easily. [...]
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The Generals vs. George W. Bush
The Generals vs. George W. Bush (cross-posted at firedoglake) When push came to shove President Bush took a powder. Why did he do it? George W. Bush, that is. Why did President Bush choose Donald Rumsfeld over the troops, over the generals’ advice and, let’s just say it, cover? Currently, there are many retired generals [...]
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Our Big Digs in the Desert
Our Big Digs in the Desert (cross-posted at firedoglake) Photo by AP People were surprised about the long-term bases, which have been in the planning since 2004. Well, wait until they get a load of this monster. It's a U.S. complex consisting of 21 buildings and 104 acres, according to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. [...]
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IRAN: Back in the Sand with Bush
… … It appears our long national journey towards complete idiocy is over. We've arrived. Idiots, of course, don't need a reason to be idiots. But to the extent there is a rational excuse for treating a nuclear strike on Iran as the journalistic equivalent of a seasonal story about people washing their cars, it [...]
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Mehlman Swiftboats Reid and Pelosi Via Radio on Immigration
Mehlman Swiftboats Reid and Pelosi Via Radio on Immigration Republicans on Thursday disclosed a Spanish-language radio advertising campaign that blames Democrats for thwarting progress on immigration reform. The 60-second spots will play early next week, a Republican official said, on Univision's KOMR-FM (106.3) and KKMR-FM (106.5), KQMR-FM (100.3) in Phoenix, and Arizona Lotus Corp.'s KCMT-FM [...]
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Bush Puts the Middle East on Boil
Bush Puts the Middle East on Boil (cross-posted at firedoglake, where I'm guest blogging) The number of Iraqis fleeing their homes for safer parts of the country has more than doubled in two weeks to 65,000, the Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration said Thursday. A ministry spokesman reported a twofold jump from the 30,000 [...]
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Rumsfeld on the Spit
Rumsfeld on the Spit (Cross-posted at firedoglake, where I'm guest blogging.) It began with the humiliation of General Shinseki. “Rumsfeld has been contemptuous of the views of senior military officers since the day he walked in as secretary of defense. It's about time they got sick and tired,” Thomas E. White, the former Army secretary, [...]
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Chocolate Eggs, Faith and the Democratic Party
Chocolate Eggs, Faith and the Democratic Party (Cross-posted at firedoglake, where I'm guest blogging.) The Founding Fathers had ample opportunity to use Christian imagery and language in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, but did not. At the same time, they were not absolute secularists. They wanted God in American pubic life, but, given the [...]
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EASTER: Politics, Faith and the Democratic Party
EASTER: Politics, Faith and the Democratic Party At the center of this early evangelical doctrine (1820s – 1830s) was the idea of original sin: we were all born stained by corruption and fleshly desire, and the true purpose of earthly life was to redeem this. The trials of economic life–the sweat of hard labor, the [...]
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Another General Against Rumsfeld
Another General Against Rumsfeld “I really believe that we need a new secretary of defense because Secretary Rumsfeld carries way too much baggage with him. … Specifically, I feel he has micromanaged the generals who are leading our forces there,” said retired Maj. Gen. Charles Swannack, former commander of the 82nd Airborne Division. Think Progress [...]
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M.A.D.: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
M.A.D.: It's Déjà Vu All Over Again Extended presence of U.S. in Iraq looms largeThe swimming pool at Balad air base, as seen through the window of a Black Hawk helicopter, 44 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Aug. 25, 2005. The Pentagon is bypassing official US intelligence channels and turning to a dangerous and [...]
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The John F. Kennedy Strategy Will Not Work for Bush
The John F. Kennedy Strategy Will Not Work for Bush –updated– Think the U.S. military isn't serious about war with Iran? Since at least 2003, in response to a number of directives from Secretary Rumsfeld and then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers, the military services and Pentagon intelligence agencies have [...]
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Retired Generals Amass Against Rumsfeld
Retired Generals Amass Against Rumsfeld The retired commander of key forces in Iraq called yesterday for Donald H. Rumsfeld to step down, joining several other former top military commanders who have harshly criticized the defense secretary's authoritarian style for making the military's job more difficult. “I think we need a fresh start” at the top [...]
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Easter is Under Attack!
Easter is Under Attack! In the wake of the national uproar over the celebration of Christmas in America, some are now focusing their attention on Easter, wondering if political correctness will have an impact on what many Christians consider to be the holiest time of the year. This week in Minnesota's capital, a toy rabbit, [...]
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IRAN: The Dangers of Donald
IRAN: The Dangers of Donald It's not about stopping a nuclear Iran. It's about regime change. The difference is a walk from sanity into lunacy. Iran’s radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a fiery sermon demanded that “Iran’s enemies”, or the West, bow down before Iran and apologize for having held back Tehran’s nuclear program for [...]
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