Author Archives: Chris

Hiatus

by Chris   –   May 23, 2011

Before I begin, I want you to know that I hate these types of posts. You know, the ones where bloggers talk about why they haven’t been blogging, but I feel I owe you folks an explanation.
I’m burned out on politics!
The issues I’ve revisited time and time again on this blog – war, torture, civil [...]

Class warfare

by Chris   –   April 6, 2011

Republicans put their heads together and decided the biggest problem facing America is …
… Drumroll please …
Rich people don’t have enough money!:

The [the House Republican budget] plan would condemn millions to the ranks of the uninsured, raise health costs for seniors and renege on the obligation to keep poor children fed. It envisions lower [...]

“Defense” Department

by Chris   –   April 4, 2011

From Twitter via John Cole:

It’s amusing that it’s okay to say “war on drugs” and “war on poverty” but once the military is involved it sure can’t be a war.

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Bob Herbert’s last column for the NY Times

by Chris   –   March 28, 2011

Losing Our Way:

The U.S. has not just misplaced its priorities. When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely.

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Wildly inappropriate

by Chris   –   March 28, 2011

Another reason Jeffrey Immelt, G.E.’s CEO, shouldn’t be the chairman of Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness:
General Electric, the nation’s largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010.
The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States.
Its American tax bill? None. [...]

Not so quietly

by Chris   –   March 25, 2011

Correction: Japan was quietly evacuating…

I’ve heard this before

by Chris   –   March 22, 2011

Who wants to bet we’ll be reading similar headlines next year, and the year after, and the year after that…

Unanswered questions on Libya

by Chris   –   March 21, 2011

From John Cole:

When do we know we have “won?” Who are we protecting? What do we do if Qaddafi survives? What do we do when we figure out the people we are “saving” hate us, just slightly less than they hated Qaddafi? What about civilian casualties? How much is this going to cost? How long [...]

My bad

by Chris   –   March 21, 2011

I went on vacation for 4 days, and the U.S. jumps into another war! Obama must have done this on purpose to escape a scathing blog post.
Sorry guys.

‘Acute case of The Embarrassments’

by Chris   –   March 16, 2011

IOZ on Obama’s complicity in Bradley Manning’s torture:

Here is a fine opportunity to engage in a little free and painless magnanimity, to make vague noises about according decent treatment even to one’s enemies, to blather a bit about America’s committment to the humane treatment of all God’s precious children, to give the poor kid some [...]