The BCS in its infinite wisdom has announced the college football bowl games at the end of this season featuring a national championship game between Alabama, which played out of its gourd the best game of its season beating Florida last Saturday, and Texas which was lucky to defeat just about the worst offensive team in Nebraska and failed to beat any team that finished in the … [Read more...] about BCS Menu Force Feeds Us Mush
Infamy, Then and Now
Sixty eight years ago today, Americans suffered a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that brought us into a world war that would last less than four years. This week, after months of debating, we took a step deeper into an eight-year war with no end in sight. On December 7, 1941, I was a college student with a part-time job in a hospital maternity ward showing fathers their new … [Read more...] about Infamy, Then and Now
Giving Iraq Stuff We Need in Afghanistan
Visions of the U.S. military hastily escaping Saigon ending our commitment to the Vietnam war were disgusting as we saw one helicopter after another dumped ungraciously into the sea to make room for a horde of escaping U.S. civilian workers and Vietnamese refugees. Those 1975 newsreel visions came to mind today as we learn the U.S. military is giving away equipment from its … [Read more...] about Giving Iraq Stuff We Need in Afghanistan
To America or France, Sarkozy Must Break His Promise: Les Dernieres Nouvelles d’Alscace of France
'OBAMA GOES TO WAR' As we have seen over recent days, the pressure on French President Nicolas Sarkozy to come out in favor the Obama surge is rapidly increasing - particularly after his proclamation to the French people that he "wouldn't send another man to Kabul." Offering a glimpse of the French political terrain, Olivier Picard writes for France's Les Dernieres … [Read more...] about To America or France, Sarkozy Must Break His Promise: Les Dernieres Nouvelles d’Alscace of France
The Sultan Tiger Woods and his Harem
33-year-old professional golfer extraordinaire appears to have amassed a collection of trollops, hussies, harlots, sluts, and other assorted mistresses and bimbos in addition to his main squeeze, the 29-year-old blond, former Swedish model Elin Nordegren to whom he was publicly married in 2004. Too much money, narcissism, ego, sex-drive, and far too many willing and perhaps … [Read more...] about The Sultan Tiger Woods and his Harem
Obama Must Finish Mr. Bush’s Work or ‘Marginalize’ the West: La Stampa of Italy
'NEW COURSE' Continuing with our global look at reaction to President Obama's Afghan strategy, particularly within NATO, this article from Italy's La Stampa will warm the hearts of those who believe that President Bush was on the right track. With some startling statistics, columnist Lucia Annunziata lays out the case for why Obama must follow the course laid out by the … [Read more...] about Obama Must Finish Mr. Bush’s Work or ‘Marginalize’ the West: La Stampa of Italy
Have Americans given up on America?
A poll and roundup HERE. … [Read more...] about Have Americans given up on America?
Spinsters and Shysters Dressed as “Do-Gooders” (Guest Voice)
Spinsters and Shysters Dressed as “Do-Gooders” By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown Just like in the Wizard of Oz, the curtain was torn back and leading proponents of anthropogenic (people-caused) global warming have been caught lying Called Climategate, the scandal exposes the global warming shysters who are conning the public into a massive restructuring of the global … [Read more...] about Spinsters and Shysters Dressed as “Do-Gooders” (Guest Voice)
Pearl Harbor Day Fading Vets
Jeff Parker, Florida Today This cartoon is copyrighted and licensed to appear on TMV. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited. All rights reserved. … [Read more...] about Pearl Harbor Day Fading Vets
The Health Care Race to Christmas
WASHINGTON -- This is the paradox of the moment: President Obama's speech on Afghanistan and his subsequent jobs summit underscored why it's essential to get a health care bill done quickly. The calendar of politics has an urgency that the dilatory pace of the U.S. Senate doesn't match. Here's the deal. If Obama gets to sign a health care bill before he gives his State … [Read more...] about The Health Care Race to Christmas
Tim Gets Adept At Washington Speak
Here's how public officials speak in Washington. They raise their voices loudly in defense of the little guy on Main Street. They scold, threaten, bang the table and roundly condemn predatory and greedy groups that are waxing fat at the little guy's expense. Then they turn around and do the bidding of these same predatory and greedy groups. This game, practiced endless by both … [Read more...] about Tim Gets Adept At Washington Speak
The Non-Public Public Option
Fascinating: One quasi-hybrid insurance plan, however, has long tantalized policy makers as a potential model for expanding insurance coverage, and in recent days Democratic negotiators have returned to it as perhaps the last best hope of a deal: the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, or F.E.H.B.P., which provides insurance coverage to more than eight million federal … [Read more...] about The Non-Public Public Option
Here Come the Medicare Cuts
This became something of a standard talking point during both the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections. As the story went, Democrats cared about seniors and their particular needs. Republicans wanted to cut Medicare and were plotting to kill your grandparents. My, what a difference one election makes, eh? Check out one of the health care amendments which passed in the Senate … [Read more...] about Here Come the Medicare Cuts
Bringing Up the Afghan Baby
The image comes from Tom Friedman describing the Obama decision last week as like "an unemployed couple who just went out and decided to adopt a special-needs baby," to which he might have added "from a family that deals drugs and rear it in a neighborhood where the kids steal each others' lunch money." All the President's Men (and Hillary Clinton) are on the TV circuit to … [Read more...] about Bringing Up the Afghan Baby
“You destroy ours, we destroy yours!”
Cross-posted to The Debate Link As tensions rise over Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's announced settlement freeze, settler leaders have launched a wave of massive protests trying to block the move. Now, they've progressed to threatening violence against the state as well as their Palestinian neighbors: Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, one of the heads of the "Od Yosef Hai" yeshiva in … [Read more...] about “You destroy ours, we destroy yours!”
Obama Pep Talk To Senate Democrats Avoids Divisive Issues: To Public Option or Not to Public Option?
To public option or not to public option? That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of the progressive blogosphere and liberal talk show hosts, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To upset your party's base: to anger Nancy Pelosi; No more; and by avoiding bringing up the subject in a pep talk to … [Read more...] about Obama Pep Talk To Senate Democrats Avoids Divisive Issues: To Public Option or Not to Public Option?
Hasidic Rabbi Helps Montana Police Officer Speak Hebrew to His Dog
This is absolutely the most totally charming, delightful, heart-warming story I have read in ages. Here is the first paragraph: … [Read more...] about Hasidic Rabbi Helps Montana Police Officer Speak Hebrew to His Dog
Obama’s Hope is All Afghanistan Has Left: Berliner Zeitung, Germany
What's a country to do? According to Germany's Berliner Zeitung, eight years into what by most accounts has been a badly-run invasion, Afghanistan is such a mess that it has no choice but to trust NATO - most importantly President Obama - to do the right thing. For the Berliner Zeitung, columnist Damir Fras criticizes Germany for its woeful training of the Afghanistan … [Read more...] about Obama’s Hope is All Afghanistan Has Left: Berliner Zeitung, Germany
Seven Months, Seven Excuses
That would be one excuse a month, each one different, given by Sen. Joe Lieberman for opposing the public option. Steve Benen has been keeping a record: … [Read more...] about Seven Months, Seven Excuses
Cost Containment and the Public Option
It's worth pointing out again -- for the millionth time -- the disconnect between Republicans' and conservative Democrats' constant yammering about deficits and budget-busters and spending us into bankruptcy, and those same lawmakers' opposition to the public option -- and their crusade to compromise it into nothing. … [Read more...] about Cost Containment and the Public Option