Let’s face it, we live in a world of people who do dumb things. They can be teachers, police, firefighters, doctors, politicians, doctors and yes, even military personnel. So when new images came out this week of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan posing with dead Afghan civilians, once again I thought “we got really dumb people […]
Remember when the right thought Stephen Colbert was the real deal? They believed he was really a right wing comedian/commentator and couldn’t seem to understand that his whole routine is making fun of the right. Well those righties haven’t become any smarter since then: Fox News’ opinion website Fox Nation and their readers don’t seem […]
It all started early in this week. On the front page of Drudge was a big story saying that President Obama’s India trip would cost $200 million per day. By the next day it was being pushed by the GOP: However, instead of answering that question, Bachmann wanted to talk about President Obama’s upcoming trip […]
When you ignore Afghanistan for 7 years then you never get stories like this: The Taliban’s top military commander was captured several days ago in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence forces, according to American government officials. The commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is an Afghan described by American […]
I reported about the outrage of Tuesday night’s address by President Obama upsetting some because it was at the same time as A Charlie Brown Christmas. Well Russell Wiseman, the mayor of Arlington Tennessee has taken it to an even more extreme level: In the opinion of Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman, President Barack Obama’s speech […]
OK this is beyond priceless: Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday night accused the White House of dithering over the strategy for the war in Afghanistan and urged President Barack Obama to “do what it takes to win.” “Make no mistake. Signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries,” […]
That is what the Iraq Study Group is now calling Bush’s failed war in Iraq. The United States should begin to withdraw its forces from combat in Iraq and launch a diplomatic push, including Iran and Syria, to prevent “a slide toward chaos” in the country, a high-level panel recommended on Wednesday. The bipartisan Iraq […]
We still got seniors who can not afford vital medications because of the new Medicare plan. New Orleans still looks like a third world country as the entire Gulf Coast region fights to get money so they can rebuild. Our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling. A drive down any road proves that. So with all those […]
Joe Lieberman: Loves Our Leader; Hates Grandmothers Keeping America Safe from Raging Grannies Domestic spying on anti-war groups forces ACLU into action ( via The People’s Republic of Seabrook) It’s time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years and that in […]
Appearing this week inNewsweek: Exclusive: CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away Newsweek Aug. 15, 2005 issue – During the 2004 presidential campaign, George W. Bush and John Kerry battled about whether Osama bin Laden had escaped from Tora Bora in the final days of the war in Afghanistan. Bush, Kerry charged, “didn’t choose […]