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BET's Robert Johnson Swipes at Obama's Teenage Drug Use and Then Denies It

Posted on January 15, 2008
BET's Robert Johnson is revealing Consider the following report: "Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson says he was talking about Sen. Barack Obama's work as a community organizer -- not about the senator's admitted drug use as a youth -- when he said this yesterday at a rally for rival Democratic presidential candidate Sen...

Revealing More Disinformation about the Surge's Efficacy

Posted on January 15, 2008
Again the IPS tries to correct the disinformation about the "surge." Consider: "Exactly one year after U.S. President George W. Bush announced that he would significantly increase the number of troops deployed to Iraq, the wisdom of his so-called 'surge' strategy remains very much in dispute here...

Is Chris Matthews a Bill O'Reilly Clone?

Posted on January 14, 2008
There may have been a time when Chris Matthews was a serious journalist, but that time has receded into the distant past. The raison d'etre of his MSNBC show "Hardball" is to ask questions other journalists won't ask and insist upon getting his guests to answer them...

The Ghosts of Hitler?

Posted on January 13, 2008
Today's NY Times includes this important book "To be neoconservative is to bear almost daily witness to the resurrection of Adolf Hitler. ''Truly Hitlerian,' the Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer pronounced Saddam Hussein's saber-rattling before Iraq invaded Kuwait...

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Just How Good Was 2007 in Iraq?

Posted on January 12, 2008
The International Press Service reports that "[d]espite all the claims of improvements, 2007 has been the worst year yet in Iraq.  . . .  One of the first big moves this year was the launch of a troop 'surge' by the U.S. government in mid-February...

So You Think You're Smarter Than James Madison, Eh? Well Why Not?

Posted on January 11, 2008
James Madison, the so-called "father of the Constitution" was a bright guy. So were all the founders bright guys: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, and so forth. The Constitution they composed was perhaps the best they could do at the time...

What's the Next President's Job? To Clean Up the Detritus So Ably Created by the Bush Administration

Posted on January 08, 2008
Rather than conducting the war in Afhganstan until Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were defeated, the malignancy that is Mr. Bush threw away moral and military capital by his Calmitious invasion of Iraq. Now the United States has lost the support of the Pakistani people in the war on terror...

Slate's Defense of Grand Caliph Bill Kristol

Posted on January 07, 2008
In a recent column, Slate's Jack Schaffer inexplicably defends the NY Times' appointment of Bill Kristol to its op-ed. page. Here's a sample: "Last week's appointment of Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol to a once-a-week slot on the New York Times op-ed page induced grand mal seizures among the Huffington Post left and their political bedfellows...

Move to Impeach Cheney Picking Up Steam

Posted on January 04, 2008
Salem-News.com reports: "A House Resolution to impeach U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney, Dennis Kucinich's H.R. 333, is gathering more support. The national impeachment continues to grow and generate increasing interest since being referred to the House Judiciary Committee last month, a Kucinich spokesperson said...

Why the Caucus Process Should Be Eliminated

Posted on January 04, 2008
Now that the titillating Iowa caucuses are over it's time for Americans to reflect on whether this process is democratic. Read today's NY Times for a negative answer.  Here's the introductory paragraph. "The next president will serve 300 million Americans...

Tom Hayden's Open letter to Senator Obama

Posted on January 03, 2008
In an open letter, Tom Hayden offers critical advice to Senator Obama on playing the centrist card: "More disturbing is what happens to the mind by setting up these polarities. To take a "centrist" position, one calculates the equal distance between two "extremes...

Hayden on Edwards' Solution to the Iraq Quagmire

Posted on January 03, 2008
Tom Hayden, a leader of the sixties' new left student movement, files the following report on John Edwards' presidential campaign in Iowa: "One day before the Iowa caucuses, John Edwards has become the first major presidential candidate to favor withdrawing all American troops, including advisers, from Iraq, doing so in response to queries from a leading military correspondent, the New York Times' Michael Gordon...

HAVE A WONDERFUL 2008th!

Posted on January 01, 2008
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Fixing Pakistan's Broken Constitutional and Political System

Posted on December 31, 2007
In the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto's assassination last week in Rawalpini, one complex solution emerges to the problems endemic to Pakistani political and social organization. Without reform of the military, intelligence, and security forces in Pakistan, the democratization of Pakistani is unlikely to take root...

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