Remember back in 2006 when Israel invaded Lebanon because of a border skirmish? Back then, the international community condemned Israel for their disproportionate military response.
This was what George Bush had to say back then:
The recent crisis in the region was triggered by the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers by the terrorist group Hezbollah and the launch [...]
The Bush administration has been shameless when it comes to naming their programs and policies. The PATRIOT Act destroys civil liberties, the Clear Skies Initiative reduces air pollution controls, Operation Iraqi Freedom put Iraqis under US military control, etc.
We’ve long needed a guide to these insults to language and logic, and Spencer Ackerman’s Iraq Euphemism [...]
Just in case you missed this, it’s astonishing:
I don’t even know how to comment on this one.
…this is not the middle east; this is not the middle ages. This is a free society. And in a free society, there exists no right to not be offended. If the Catholic church can get away with desecrating what others consider sacred (or, for those of us who have no concept of sacredness, at [...]
Next year the United States will run a budget deficit of $490 billion. That will bring total US debt to $10 trillion. (Thanks China!)
Then there’s this fun news (@ Ezra Klein):
In a new sign of increasing inequality in the U.S., the richest 1% of Americans in 2006 garnered the highest share of the nation’s adjusted [...]
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Check out McCain’s new ad where he blasts Obama for not visiting wounded troops during his overseas trip:
This ad is not only riddled with shameless falsehoods, it’s a sign that McCain is trying to shift the debate away from the issues.
I’m not sure why, but this ad just makes me mad. After eight years [...]
“This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.” - John McCain
This quote from McCain is [...]
I’m going to be bold here and say we’re going to look back at this week as a milestone. It’ll be the week - drumroll please - Obama ended the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
Pretty amazing for someone who isn’t even the president yet. But how did Obama do it? Let me explain…
This weekend Iraqi Prime [...]
I’ve discovered the reason so many Americans (particularly of the conservative/Republican persuasion) are opposed to gay-marriage.
It’s simple. Their own marriages were unfulfilling and dreadful so they feared being outplayed at their once exclusive game.
Here’s Andrew Sullivan writing about his own same-sex marriage:
I think Megan is almost certainly right about men getting more out of marriage [...]
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I thought it’d be nice to start off today with a great quote:
“Maybe a race of alien lizards will land in Mosul and commence their program of world conquest, in which case it would be odd to stick with the 16 month withdrawal timeline…” - Matthew Yglesias
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Update
Obama has been busy this week reinforcing his [...]