September 11, 2008 – 01:34 pm
From Mother Jones’s Mission Creep: America’s Unwelcome Advances: “According to the Pentagon’s 2008 ‘Base Structure Report,’…the United States maintains 761 active military ’sites’ in foreign countries…Counting domestic military bases and those on US territories, the total is 5,429….[G]iven that there are only 192 countries in the United Nations, 761 foreign bases is a remarkable example [...]
September 8, 2008 – 12:43 pm
From NY Times’s The Vanishing Republican Voter - An Analysis: “As a general rule, the more unequal a place is, the more Democratic; the more equal, the more Republican….My fellow conservatives and Republicans have tended not to worry very much about the widening of income inequalities…But…as America becomes more unequal, it also becomes less Republican. [...]
August 28, 2008 – 09:55 am
From the New Republic’s Speech!: “If Abraham Lincoln were brought back to life, one thing that would throw him, other than electric power and the Internet, would be that audiences disrupted his speeches by clapping after every three or four lines. As ordinary as this seems now, this kind of applause is actually a custom [...]
August 21, 2008 – 01:32 pm
From the Progressive’s One Teacher’s Cry: Why I Hate No Child Left Behind: “No Child Left Behind is a symptom of a larger problem: the attack on public education itself. Like the school choice effort, which uses public funds to finance private schools and cherry-pick the best students, No Child Left Behind is designed to [...]
August 21, 2008 – 11:16 am
[Hat tip to the Jed Report for the video]
In case you’re watching the video and not catching it, Sen. McCain is saying that he’d have nominated Cheney as his vice-president in 2000. He’s also saying that Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Powell are the strongest national security team we’ve ever had.
And this is not a knee-jerk supporting-the-president-in-the-wake-of-9/11 [...]
August 20, 2008 – 03:33 pm
From Boston.com’s The myth of the white minority: “For generations, ‘whites’ have been hearing that they are about to be engulfed by unassimilable foreign races, and for centuries those ‘races’ have eventually become - white! Benjamin Franklin worried mightily about the threat posed to white American culture by the influx of German immigrants. ‘Why should [...]
August 14, 2008 – 02:45 pm
From National Journal’s Waning Warming Debate: “According to a survey from ABC News, Planet Green and Stanford University, fewer than half — 47 percent — of Americans consider global warming an important issue to them personally, down from 52 percent in April 2007. Although a vast majority still think the planet is warming — 8 [...]
August 13, 2008 – 10:47 am
From Tom Friedman’s Eight Strikes and You’re Out: “On July 30…the Senate was voting for the eighth time in the past year on a broad, vitally important bill that would have extended the investment tax credits for installing solar energy and the production tax credits for building wind turbines and other energy-efficiency systems. Senator McCain [...]
August 7, 2008 – 11:28 am
From NY Times’s 500 - Deadly U.S. Milestone in Afghan War: “June was the second deadliest month for the military in Afghanistan since the war began, with 23 American deaths from hostilities, compared with 22 in Iraq. July was less deadly, with 20 deaths, compared with six in Iraq. On July 22, nearly seven [...]
From Boston.com’s Exxon Mobil 2Q profit sets US record, shares fall: “Exxon Mobil Corp. reported second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion Thursday, the biggest profit from operations ever by any U.S. corporation…Revenue rose 40 percent to $138.1 billion from $98.4 billion in the year-earlier quarter…Setting U.S. profit records has become commonplace for Irving-based Exxon Mobil. The [...]
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