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A PARALLEL UNIVERSE 26 Mar 2013 | 08:13 pm
That’s really what the national “mainstream” news media seem by and large determined to create. Example of the day: the blackout on reporting concerning passage by voice vote of Bernie Sanders’ ammen...
WATCHING THE PAGES DANCE 25 Mar 2013 | 04:03 am
For The Wall Street Journal, I review Facts & Fancies, Paul Taylor’s new book, a compilation of short pieces.
OBAMA BLOWS SMOKE AT HIS HOUSE CAUCUS 16 Mar 2013 | 12:03 am
According to Sahil Kapur’s reportage on Talkingpointsmemo.com, in his meeting with the House yesterday the President “phrased” his rationale behind his advocacy of cuts to Social Security in a highly ...
AND IT’S THESE SAME WAR BOOSTERS WHO PREACH AUSTERITY 15 Mar 2013 | 11:49 pm
“Hundreds of Thousands Dead, Trillions Spent” Jon Queally at Commondreams.org describes the costs of our invasion of Iraq.
NANCY PELOSI SOUNDS SUPERANNUATED AND INCOMPETENT 15 Mar 2013 | 05:51 am
Saying there is no alternative between decimating Social Security the way the Republicans want to do, and chipping away at it the way that Obama prefers. Is she kidding? On the one hand, her duplici...
BUT DO THEY? 14 Mar 2013 | 10:02 pm
Greg Sargent in The Washington Post: “Dems know — or should know — that if they take ownership of the entitlement cuts Republicans say they want, GOP strategists will not hesitate to attack them agai...
SOMETHING TO SEE 14 Mar 2013 | 07:36 pm
Last night I spoke to Sam Lefkowitz, Linda Gravenites’s widower. I told him how I’m writing a chapter on Linda in my new book. He told me how many of Linda’s clothing sketches, along with samples of...
BLINKERED OBTUSENESS 13 Mar 2013 | 10:59 pm
Or is it just plain stupidity? We’ll see exactly what’s at work among the President and his grifter handlers as his poll numbers tank over his insistence on implementing the Republicans’ agenda to cut...
YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN 13 Mar 2013 | 10:19 pm
“We are not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.” – Congressman Paul Ryan, March 12, 2013
ROCKING THE BOAT 11 Mar 2013 | 10:16 pm
The “pundits” told Elizabeth Warren what they tell every Democrat who actually wants to implement a Democratic platform that got them elected: sit on her hands and turn into another nice, passive, Dem...
