Michael Moore spoke at a rally in Wisconsin last Friday, and here is what he said: “Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The …
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One hundred fifty years ago today, in the midst of secession and under threat of civil war, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as the sixteenth president of the United States. His inaugural address, a firm and passionate explanation of his policies and intentions, closed with some of the most beautiful and stirring phrases …
By a vote of 8-1, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the First Amendment protects the right of a fringe church to stage anti-gay protests at military funerals. As the Washington Post put it, the decision “writes a new chapter in the court’s findings that freedom of speech is so central to the nation that …
Stories In The New York Times How retro: 2011’s hot new trend is. . . anti-semitism! just today, in the front section alone: Yemen’s beleaguered president Ali Abdullah Saleh blames Israel and the US for uprisings in the Arab world; hotshit Dior designer John Galliano (now ex-) is going to face charges for saying that …
A couple of days after Defense Secretary Gates said in a speech that “Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,” Senator Jim Webb of Virginia, another leader I respect, has been backing …
It has to be one of the most stunning statements ever uttered in public by an American Defense Secretary: last week in a speech at West Point, Robert Gates, who served as Secretary of Defense to both President Bush and President Obama, and whose service has won him widespread respect, offered this view: “”In my …
The essential Robert Reich has nailed the current crisis brilliantly: “The Republican strategy is to split the vast middle and working class – pitting unionized workers against non-unionized, public-sector workers against non-public, older workers within sight of Medicare and Social Security against younger workers who don’t believe these programs will be there for them, and …
I don’t know who these dear folks are, except to say, these are my fellow Americans. Found on Jeff Wells‘ hollywood-elsewhere.com site.
The new issue of The Atlantic features an exceptionally good article by the impressive Chrystia Freeland called “The Rise of the New Global Elite.” The excellent article describes a new aristocracy whose power reaches across boundaries, whose ability to act in its own self-interest is probably impervious to national governments, and, perhaps most alarmingly, whose …