The sage of Target dumping money into political races has been interesting, if not short-lived. Let’s a quick timeline: July 25th – it was revealed that the Target Corp. funneled $150,000 to a right-wing homophobic PAC. July 27th – Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel defends the donations, saying “Target’s political donations are intended to support business […]
I had a feeling this would happen. In all honest I don’t blame President Obama for it, I blame the weak-kneed Democrats: Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay […]
This is something I never thought I would see: Senate Republicans said Thursday that they would try to filibuster a massive Pentagon bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an unusual move that several acknowledged was an effort to delay President Obama’s health-care legislation. Late into the night, Democrats emerged from a huddle […]
Once President Obama announced a timeline to start drawing down troops in Afghanistan we knew that the right would start attacking it. Right on cue we have John McCain telling Good Morning America that the timeline will “embolden” the enemy: “I trust his [McChrystal’s] judgment enormously but I also understand that both our enemies and […]
As the hour of President Obama’s speech approaches we are starting to get leaked details. In those details we find out that he will be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan over the next 6 months. He is also calling for an end to the war within three years. Hopefully that is an obtainable timeline, […]
Image via Wikipedia Last month the White House, under the direct instructions of President Obama, scrapped the old, expensive system the White House’s website ran on and moved towards the freely available open source platform Drupal, which also powers this site. In a Drupal meet up in D.C. last night, the White House tech team […]
Glenn Greenwald has an excellent timeline put together highlighting the growth of this whole lipstick bullshit. It really shows you how an innocent analogy gets turned into the most talked about controversy, with the help of the media and internets.
But the commanders want until next year for the “surge” to work: The Pentagon announced yesterday that 35,000 soldiers in 10 Army combat brigades will begin deploying to Iraq in August as replacements, making it possible to sustain the increase of U.S. troops there until at least the end of this year. U.S. commanders in […]
And not in Iraq NABATIYEH, Lebanon — The United States has given Israeli forces between 10 and 14 days to finish dealing Hezbollah “a strategic blow,” a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official told FOX News, as both Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas continued to volley rockets across the Lebanon-Israel border. While admitting that the Israeli […]
Sounds like a joke but sadly it is not. Did you know high schools and even middle schools have started using tasers on students? I didn’t. There’s a brewing controversy on this now in Wichita, Kansas, which I learned about from Jake Lowen of the excellent organization Hope Street Youth Development. Here’s the timeline he […]