Alternet (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Obama's shown a Clinton-like willingness to roll over progressives to enact corrupt legislation and compromise for the votes of Republicans.
My Right Word (Free subscription) | yesterday
WND is reporting : Obama appoints anti-Israel lobbyist to anti-Semitism post J Street pick hints Jewish state to blame for hatred against its people President Obama's new anti-Semitism czar serves on the board of a controversial Israel lobby group accused of working against the Jewish state, while her writings suggest Israel's policies are to blame for anti-Semitism. Hannah Rosenthal, a former Health...
Patriot Room (Free subscription) | yesterday
They must have a political death wish. [A recent] asked voters if they'd rather boost "the economy even though it may mean larger budget deficits" or keep the "budget deficit down." Only 31% chose boosting the economy; 62% wanted to keep the deficit down. These numbers suggest trouble for Democrats. In 1994, a wave of budget concerns (among other factors) handed Republicans control...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
You've probably noticed that Washington Post columnist David Broder and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are having a bit of a spat . Again. What you may have missed was the Beltway media rallying around Broder via a Politico article earlier this week: In an age of ideological divisions, Broder is widely known as a fair arbiter on Capitol Hill, a journalist who's as interested in the process as he...
The View From North Central Idaho (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
From Canada: It would seem that Canadian opinion on gun control and registration is divided quite clearly between city and country. Perhaps the solution lies in the old western movies we used to watch as kids. It was very common for the sheriff to have a rule that when the cowboys came to town, they had to leave their guns at the sheriff's office. I wonder if some form of that idea would not provide...
The Reasoned Sceptic (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mort Zuckerman wrote a good editorial in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal addressing the "too big to fail" phenomenon in US banking. He lays out the situation that fostered super-sized financial institutions in the beginning of his piece, "It is also true that the wisdom that led to the Glass- Steagall Act, which separated commercial banks from investment banking during the Great Depression,...
Illinois Pedant (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eighteen years ago the phrase " It's the economy, stupid " helped propel a little-known Democrat, Arkansas governor Bill Clinton, into the presidency, defeating incumbent George H.W. Bush. Now it's the deficit that may prove to be the undoing of Barack Obama and his party as Karl Rove notes : Last year, Mr. Obama made fiscal restraint a constant theme of his presidential campaign. "Washington...
American Conservative Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lou Dobbs, in a recent poll by Rasmussen , polled at upto 14% if he were to run for President. That would probably be enough to keep Obama in office for a second term as he stripped away enough conservatives tired of the wishy washy soft socialism of the Republican Party. With Obama not breaking 44% and at 42% in two matchups, it would be Bill Clinton all over again.
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | yesterday
An interesting essay today at Counterpunch . Herewith some excerpts: With Obama pushing a huge troop escalation in Afghanistan, history may well repeat itself with a vengeance. And it’s not just the apt comparison to LBJ, who destroyed his presidency on the battlefields of Vietnam with an escalation that delivered power to Nixon and the GOP. There’s another frightening parallel: Obama seems...
NEWS COMPASS (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Andrew Sparrow. Read here in Guardin UK Sir Christopher Meyer is the most high-profile figure to give evidence so far. A former press secretary to John Major and UK ambassador in Washington from 1997 to 2003, he infuriated the government with his views about the Iraq war in his memoirs. Broadly in favour of the war, he also strongly criticised Tony Blair's failure to get more from the US in return...
Moline Democratic Maverick (Free subscription) | yesterday
A few days ago I asked my father if he shared my growing suspicion that my generation (those of us born after World War II) had really made a mess of things once we got in charge. My father was born in 1923, was 6 years old when the stock market crashed, grew up during the Great Depression and had just started college when the United States declared war on Japan. People of his generation were running...
Mikey Likes It! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thanksgiving. Hope everyone had a great one. I did. I am stuffed. I had turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing, salad, tons of casseroles and sons of slices of pies and just about anything else you can think of. My favorite is after the meal, making roll sandwiches. :D Putting some turkey in a roll and topping it with cranberry sauce. :D Elaine and I are at C.I .'s for the holiday and it's been...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday
For those that missed it Wednesday evening, Karl Rove had a lengthy discussion with Fox News's Greta Van Susteren about a variety of issues including Sarah Palin's future. Early on in this "On the Record" segment, Rove made a statement about the former Alaska governor that's guaranteed to anger liberals across the fruited plain: I think she's an interesting personality who relates well to...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Hailed as a 'sure fire' success, the bookstore chain was killed by Amazon and cut-price supermarkets When Borders arrived in the UK in the summer of 1998, the Spice Girls were riding high in the charts and Bill Clinton was categorically denying his relationship with "that woman". The American giant promised a revolution that would mean curtains for fusty book shops which it would replace...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The Obama administration is shattering all records for spending in its first year: In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion -- $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. ... [C]ompared with other presidents' first years in office, Obama is running circles around them. Bush spent $1.8 trillion in 2001, according to government budget figures that have been...
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