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 [...]
[Hat tip to Josh for the link, and to Eisman-SF for the original find]
From the movie, The Kingdom, uploaded by eismann-sf on Vimeo.
From Salon’s The rise and fall of an American beer: “Ever since Budweiser was sold to Belgian brewing monster InBev on Sunday, beer drinkers have been sighing that a piece of Americana has been lost. They’ve got it all wrong. During its rise to President for Life of Beers, Budweiser ended up crushing dozens of [...]
From Gary Hart’s America’s Next Chapter: “Ralph Waldo Emerson noted the political oscillations between the party of memory and the party of hope, the party of conservatism and the party of innovation. Henry Adams believed that ‘a period of about 12 years measured the beat of the pendulum’ during the era of the founders. Arthur [...]
From Bob Herbert’s Letters From Vermont: “The letters to Senator Sanders offer a glimpse into the real lives of ordinary people in an economic environment that was sculpted to favor the very rich. One of the letters was from a woman in central Vermont who said she and her husband are in their mid-30s, are [...]
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