Safe States: Safe for Whom?
It’s Halloween. And the political climate is terrifying. Democrats try to assuage their increasing anxieties over Matt Stoller’s, David Sirota’s, …
Monthly Archives: October 2012
The Progressive Retreat from Obama: Who is to Blame?
As you may be aware, Matt Stoller’s most recent Salon column and other progressive critical perspectives, including my own, have …
Emily Hauser’s Disgusting Indifference to Women of Color
Update I & Update 2: Below On yesterday’s on-line “HuffPo Live Debate” on supporting Obama, between Daniel Ellsberg, Daily Beast …
GiTMO Tribunals: Righteous Reasons to Abandon the US Constitution?
After my last post, Thomas Drake, a former NSA official, pointed out that the circus of the Guantanamo Bay show-trials …
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Increased Privacy, and National Security: The Guantanamo Bay Spectacle
Update (below): I wonder what goes through the minds of the prosecutors and Army Judges involved in the 9-11 staged …
Prez Debates 2: Indifference and Changing the Premise
After getting through the second round of Prez debates last night (with the forceful help of some astute Twitter companions), …
The Business of Health Insurance and “Obamacare”: What Can We Expect?
Pretty dangerous to be over at Hofstra last night; there were alot of reckless numbers and false statements flying around. …
Argo: Iran, Empire, and American Privilege
Spoiler Alert: (I point to the obvious ending of the movie; it’s a spoiler if you know nothing about the …
Veep Debates October 2012
In response to someone’s query, here are some thoughts about last night’s spectacle: I don’t generally care about, or watch, …
Protecting Women and Children: France, Drones and Disingenuous Justifications
Formerly Titled: Protecting the Honor of Women and Children: Allons-y! Update I [below] Any day now, I expect that the …
Jill Biden, Democrats and USAID: Doing Good by Doing Good
Watching television a couple nights ago, I found myself watching a gritty, in-your-face advertisement featuring Jill Biden advocating for relief …
Why do “Third Parties Never Work”? Collusion and the Presidential Debates
Regardless of what you thought of the first round of 2012 presidential debates, the spin job began well before 8:30 …
White Privilege, the Dems, and the Rhetoric of “Care”
To read some of the exchanges over the last week in the blogosphere, apparently “white privilege” means that one doesn’t …
