The forces of darkness and party of no smell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s blood, and they’re out to bring him down, all because of a remark from a year or two ago in which he referred to then-Sen. Barack Obama as a light-skinned black with “no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have [...]
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All-volunteer military the product
of a two-tier American society
“A wise and just manpower policy remains the foundation of this nation’s national defense. The late Charles Moskos of Northwestern University, the nation’s pre-eminent military sociologist (and a U.S. Army draftee after he graduated from Princeton), gave this wise and timeless insight: ‘The answer to the question of what are vital national [...]
Taking down righties’ moral hazard meme
Our response to a comment at Major Conflict, under the post, “The Song Remains the Same,” provided a chance to fire back at one all-too-typical regurgitation of conservative conventional wisdom.
We hope using the resulting broadside for a post doesn’t strike you as too self-indulgent.
First, the part of a comment from someone who calls him/herself [...]
Texas might’ve made marriage illegal
After George W. Bush’s reign of error, Alberto “The Amnesiac” Gonzales’ stint as attorney general and Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s secession eruptions before cheering crowds of locals with teabags for brains, it’s reasonable to wonder about the people of that state.
But hold on for the latest: The Lone Star State’s narrow and nil of [...]
D.C., church on collision course over gay rights
Washington, D.C.’s municipal government and Catholic Charities are having a showdown over the city’s intention to treat same-sex couples just as opposite-sex couples are treated.
If no accommodation is reached, Catholic Charities is likely to sever its working relationship with the city, possibly to the detriment of the city’s have nots.
The nation’s capital has a large [...]
Why do Obama-hating reform foes get traction?
These are people who hang on the every word of Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly, Savage and their ilk. These are people who see no inconsistency in hating their government and everything it does while presenting themselves as the only true patriots in America.
Ted Kennedy understood, acted upon
truths conservatives wilfully reject
Kennedy understood, in common with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman . . . that some Americans get rich or grow wealth they already have by doing things that keep others from improving their lot in life.
New champion for forces of resentment
Frank Rich’s analysis has the ring of truth, pointing up a logical follow on to the sentiment that motivated so many on the right to support George W. Bush long after it became clear his misleadership was grossly incompetent and worse, deviously antidemocratic.
Swim club president’s denial
of race bias doesn’t hold water
A swim club president with more than a chlorine cake for a brain and a modicum of kindness and decency could’ve handled the situation in a way that allowed all the kids to enjoy the pool, with no hurt feelings.
Complacency helped kill museum guard
While talking heads go on at length about today’s killing of a Holocaust Museum security guard by a white supremacist hatemonger, about whether hate-talk artists on right-wing radio and TV encourage violence, we see a key point being ignored.
Why was an obviously seething lunatic like suspect James W. von Brunn, 88, armed and on the [...]
