Nine Years After 9/11, Let's Stop Playing into Bin Laden's Hands

Seeded on Sun Sep 12, 2010 12:20 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, succeeded far beyond anything Osama bin Laden could possibly have envisioned. This is not just because they resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths, nor only because they struck at the heart of American financial and military power.

iraq, afghanistan, ted-koppel, osama-bin-laden, us-news, us-foreign-policy

Youth Unemployment at Highest Level Since 1948

Seeded on Thu May 20, 2010 10:11 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)

More than 1.6 million bachelor degree-toting young adults will enter the job market this year, and they'll face the highest youth unemployment rate -- 19.6 percent -- since the Labor Department started compiling the data in 1948.

college, education, economics, us-labor-department

College For All? Experts Say Not Necessarily

Seeded on Fri May 14, 2010 10:20 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)

The notion that a four-year degree is essential for real success is being challenged by a growing number of economists, policy analysts and academics.

college, education, econimcs

Tax Day and America's War

Seeded on Wed Apr 14, 2010 2:52 PM EDT (The Nation)

Matt Ryan, the mayor of Binghamton, New York, is sick and tired of watching people in local communities "squabble over crumbs," as he puts it, while so much local money pours into the Pentagon's coffers and into America's wars.

iraq, afghanistan, us-news, u-s-foreign-policy, military-spending, u-s-budget-deficit

Buyer's Remorse on Wall Street

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 9:37 AM EST (Salon.com)

Political science professors could require students to read this article from today's New York Times and little else would be needed to convey the essence of the American political system.

wall-street, republican-party, barack-obama, democratic-party, us-news

Football: The Real Reality TV

Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 10:20 AM EST (Salon.com)

With the increasing popularity of so-called reality TV and the cultural ascendance of unscripted drama--from "The Amazing Race" to "American Idol," from "Survivor" to "The Biggest Loser"--I started to realize a curious small truth: Football is our true reality TV, and our most fa …

football, sports, new-orleans-saints, indianapolis-colts, new-york-giants, oakland-raiders, super-bowl-xliv

Sarah Palin & the Tea Party "Movement"

Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 10:07 AM EST (Salon.com)

Is there any other nation in the world where a leading politician can appear in public--without controversy--wearing the flag of a foreign country? It was a huge scandal on the Right when immigration reform marchers waved Mexican (along with American) flags in order to display c …

israel, us-news, u-s-foreign-policy, sarah-palin, tea-party-movement

Tim Tebow's Misleading Super Bowl Ad

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 3:13 PM EST (Slate)

Pro-lifers have always struggled with the invisibility of unborn life: millions of babies aborted every year, concealed in wombs behind closed doors.

abortion, us-news, focus-on-the-family, tim-tebow, super-bowl-xliv, pam-tebow

Presidential Assassinations of U.S. Citizens

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 9:54 AM EST (Salon.com)

Barack Obama, like George Bush before him, has claimed the authority to order American citizens murdered based solely on the unverified, uncharged, unchecked claim that they are associated with Terrorism and pose "a continuing and imminent threat to U.S.

civil-liberties, us-news, obama-terrorism-yemen

Deficit Hawks, or Deficit Do-dos?

Seeded on Tue Feb 2, 2010 10:05 AM EST (Salon.com)

The policy of slashing government spending during a near-depression, which the deficit hawks advocate, is insane. Even most intelligent conservative economists acknowledge this.

federal-deficit, us-news, federal-budget, u-s-fiscal-policy

Susan Collins Spreads Central Myth About the Constitution

Seeded on Mon Feb 1, 2010 10:14 AM EST (Salon.com)

Over the weekend, Sen. Susan Collins released a five-minute video in which she sounded as though she had been possessed by the angriest, most unhinged version of Dick Cheney.

terrorism, civil-liberties, bill-of-rights, us-news, u-s-constitution, susan-collins

Obama is Right on the (Foreign) Money

Seeded on Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:37 AM EST (Salon.com)

From Glenn Beck to Joe Scarborough, right-wing voices are loudly complaining that President Obama's remarks about the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United were false and insulting to the court.

barack-obama, samuel-alito, us-news, us-supreme-court-citizens-united

Stupid Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Seeded on Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:12 AM EST (Salon.com)

Last Monday's arrest of James O'Keefe and three alleged accomplices in a scheme to manipulate the telephone system at the New Orleans offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu evokes a sense of wonder and even incredulity.

louisiana, us-news, mary-landrieu, u-s-senate, acorn, james-okeefe

Justice Alito's Conduct and the Court's Credibility

Seeded on Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:03 AM EST (Salon.com)

As I wrote at the time, I thought the condemnations of Rep. Joe Wilson's heckling of Barack Obama during his September health care speech were histrionic and excessive.

barack-obama, samuel-alito, us-news, state-of-the-union, u-s-supreme-court

Will the Real Tea-Partiers Please Stand Up?

Seeded on Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:19 AM EST (Salon.com)

Earlier this week, in a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 20-year-old ruling that had banned large corporations from using their general funds to pay for political advertising. Today, writing in response to the case of Citizens United vs.

politics, supreme-court, campaign-finance, tea-party, citizens-united

Beware the All-Powerful Left!

Seeded on Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:29 PM EST (Salon.com)

Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald used his space yesterday to comment on a recurring theme that seems to be emerging in the media with regard to the victory of Republican candidate Scott Brown in the election to fill Ted Kennedy's vacant Massachusetts Senate seat. According to Mr.

election, obama, us-news, massachusetts, ted-kennedy, u-s-senate, scott-brown

Don't Panic. Fear is al-Qaeda's real goal

Seeded on Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:08 AM EST (The Washington Post)

In responding to the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day, Sen.

terrorism, civil-liberties, us-news, al-qaeda

Cause and Effect in the Ever-Expanding "War on Terror"

Seeded on Fri Jan 8, 2010 11:09 AM EST (Salon.com)

Musing on several recent incidents involving al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists--including failed airline attacker Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab--Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald describes how U.S.

israel, terrorism, us-news, war-on-terror, al-qaeda, us-foreign-policy, islamic-terrorism

The Backfiring of the Surveillance State

Seeded on Wed Jan 6, 2010 1:26 PM EST (Salon.com)

Every debate over expanded government surveillance power is invariably framed as one of "security v.

terrorism, civil-liberties, surveillance, us-news

The Degrading Effects of Fear

Seeded on Mon Jan 4, 2010 2:15 PM EST (Salon.com)

Writing in response to a Nigerian man's failed attempt to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner during the Christmas holiday, Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald discusses the degrading effect of terrorism fears on our political discourse. Mr.

nigeria, terrorism, civil-liberties, us-news, al-qaeda, umar-farouk-abdulmutallab

The Big Sellout: Obama's About-Face on Economic Policy

Seeded on Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:07 AM EST (Rolling Stone)

Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008...What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in …

wall-street, obama, us-news, bailout, economic-policy

Obama DOJ Seeks to Block Probe into "Questionable" Gitmo Deaths

Seeded on Tue Dec 8, 2009 2:43 PM EST (Salon.com)

Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald used his column yesterday to highlight a new report from the Seton Hall University School of Law that raises "serious doubts" about the U.S. military's investigation into the June 2006 deaths of three detainees at Guantanamo prison.

terrorism, guantanamo-bay, obama, civil-liberties, torture, us-news, department-of-justice

Juan Cole: Afghanistan is not Iraq

Seeded on Wed Dec 2, 2009 2:48 PM EST (Salon.com)

President Barack Obama's just-announced plan for Afghanistan seems modeled less on Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam strategy than on George W. Bush's Iraq exit strategy.

iraq, afghanistan, west-point, obama, us-news, foreign-policy, troop-surge

Evah Bayh, "Deficit Hawk"

Seeded on Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:24 AM EST (Salon.com)

Senator Evan Bayh was on Fox News yesterday demanding an escalation of the war in Afghanistan, while simultaneously rejecting the idea of a so-called "war tax" to pay for it.

iraq, afghanistan, federal-deficit, us-news, foreign-policy, evan-bayh

Perino: No Terrorist Attack During Bush's Term

Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:26 AM EST (The Huffington Post)

Last night, former White House press secretary Dana Perino suggested that President Obama was "playing politics" by refusing to label the recent shootings at Fort Hood army base a terrorist attack. According to the Huffington Post, Ms.

media, terrorism, journalism, george-bush, fox-news, us-news, 9-11, dana-perino, fort-hood-massacre

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