Jonathan Cohn, writing in the April 29 issue of the New Republic, moans about the “Hell of American Day Care”. In France, of course, they do things much better, devoting about 1 percent of GNP to pre-school services, more than twice the U.S. budget, according to Cohn. He cites New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse,…
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The war crimes of Barack Obama
The New York Times opens a window on oppression, American Style, with a powerful statement by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, an 11 year inmate at Guantánamo (11 years without being charged of an actual crime). I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime….
Catholic Conundra: You can’t please all the people all the time, and you can’t fool all the people all the time either
As a secular humanist of Protestant descent, I’m not much of a fan of the Catholic Church. Still, I almost feel sorry for the new Pope to be, Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis, who’s gotten easily the least gracious welcome of any Pope that I can remember. In the past, the press was happy to go along…
President Obama’s sweaty underwear, updated
Glenn Greenwald and Marcy Wheeler (aka “Emptywheel”) go into the legal weeds to refute, in fairly mind-numbing detail, the efforts of government lawyers/enablers David Barron and Marty Lederman to pretend that it’s OK to murder someone if they talk too much, as set forth by New York Times journalists/stenographers Mark Mazzetti, Charlie Savage, and Scott…
President Obama, sweating in his underwear
One hardly knows how to take the belated tick-tock, “How a U.S. Citizen Came to Be in America’s Cross Hairs,” turned in by Mark Mazzetti, Charlie Savage, and Scott Shane in Saturday’s New York Times. Did NYT Executive Editor Jill Abramson fill Scott’s bowl with Kibbles and Bits* and then say “Okay, you guys! Get…
The Electric Slide
Two recent stories in the New York Times should serve as a primer, or perhaps prophylactic, for whatever electric car jive President Obama has up his sleeve for tonight’s “State of the Union” address. The first, a tale of woe entitled “Stalled Out on Tesla’s Electric Highway,” by the immensely put-upon John M. Broder, explains…
Dianne Feinstein, Pretty but Dumb, or Pretty Dumb?
Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, led off her committee’s hearing on John Brennan’s nomination to be head of the CIA by proudly announcing that the CIA’s “Death from the Skies” drone program, which is pretty much John’s baby, had been able to keep civilian casualties “in the single digits” for each year…
Day after Thanksgiving Day reading—Paula Broadwell’s All In—the Critics Rave!
An invaluable link from Justin Logan at the American Conservative brings the blurbs for Paula “Keep your hands off my man” Broadwell’s tome on the glories of General Petraeus, whose genius brought us our glorious victories in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not! “A valuable perspective on how Gen. Petraeus—the most successful U.S. general of his generation—approached…
Whither Republicans?
Is it too soon to wonder about what’s going to happen to the Republican Party after the defeat of Mitt Romney? Well, yes, it is, but what the fuck, it’s fun, so let’s do it. Mitt really put his foot in it, or on it, with his now famous though beginning to recede a bit…
If I told you, I’d have to cancel your subscription
Nothing to see here, folks. Nothing to see. No, nothing at all. Let me see if I’ve got all my links straight here. Judicial Watch submitted a FOIA request to the CIA, and the results of that request are available here. Over at Politico, Dylan Byers digests the results here, learning that that New York…