Those white folks down in Ferguson, Missouri are clever, aren’t they? In a classic “winner deals and dealer wins” situation, the white power structure has arranged for city elections to be held on off years, in April! Hey, what’s wrong with having an electorate composed of the citizens who care, who work hard, who aren’t…
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Marion Berry, still Marion Berry
Marion Berry, still Marion Berry Damn straight! Damn straight! No one, but no one, does it like Marion “Bitch set me up” Berry. According to the Washington Post, who makes it its business to know these things, DC’s former mayor for life had run up a tab of “$2,800 in unpaid parking and speeding tickets…
Peter G. Peterson, fighting for you and me. And sometimes Japan
In a recent article appearing in Politico magazine, Charles Lewis, founder of the grandly titled Center for Public Integrity, an outfit dedicated to aggressive investigative journalism, tells a tale from the 1980s about his less than grand experiences with the legendary CBS TV show 60 Minutes. My last 60 Minutes segment, “Foreign Agent,” featured well-known…
Time is Running Out! Again!
Time is running out, Secretary of State John Kerry writes, in the June 30 Washington Post: July 20, the deadline to negotiate a comprehensive agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, is fast approaching. All along, these negotiations have been about a choice for Iran’s leaders. They can agree to the steps necessary to assure the world…
What Robert Gates said that no one said he said
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, former Secretary of State Robert Gates’ memoirs of his years as SecDef, have been excerpted and/or discussed by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. If you follow this sort of thing, you know that Bob loved Hillary, definitely a feather in her…
Edward Snowden, patriot
Kudos to my not favorite newspaper the Washington Post by giving us a real Christmas present, an honest interview with Edward Snowden, who makes President Obama and his various assorted mouthpieces look like the moral midgets they are. When the history of these times is written, Snowden and the unhappy Chelsea Manning will be remembered…
Eff-Dee Deification: A (continuing) Democratic Disease
The severe embarrassment on the “Left” by the Obama Administration’s disastrous rollout of the Affordable Care Act has taken a variety of forms, from the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” approach advocated by Joan Walsh at Salon, aka “The first rule about the Affordable Care Act is ‘Don’t talk about Affordable Care Act’; “The second rule…
O Lucky Obama!
A few weeks ago—or was it a few lifetimes?—I was remarking that it couldn’t be possible that President Obama could slide out of an utterly gratuitous, entirely self-inflicted mini-war with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with the help of Vladimir Putin, but that’s exactly what happened. But of course that was only a warm-up. Now the…
Smashing Time
Dave Weigel has a nice piece over at Slate explaining why the Tea Party Republicans in the House won’t negotiate with Obama. Because they think he’s lying, about everything. Everything that anyone in the Executive Branch says about the government shutdown and the debt ceiling is a lie. In fact, any statement, by any expert,…
Jew Jokes? Oh Yeah! We Got Jew Jokes!
https://youtu.be/bO-e31SHUfw Fuck yeah we do, thanks to John “Funnyman” Whitbeck, 10th Congressional District Republican Committee chairman, appearing nitely at the Plantation Club in Confederateburg, Va. Johnnie’s latest gutbuster, shown above, involves the “head of the Jewish faith” presenting the new pope with the bill for the last supper. Funny, John, funny! You’re a funny man!…