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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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
Carter Resignation: Another Defection Over Civil Liberties?
Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:55 AM EST (Salon.com)
Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald uses his space today to discuss the resignation of Phillip Carter, President Obama's top Pentagon official for detainee affairs, offering some cautious speculation as to the reasons for Mr. Carter's abrupt departure. Mr.
Craig's Fall Highlights Obama's Poor Civil Liberties Record
Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:36 AM EST (Salon.com)
In a lengthy blog post at Salon.com, Glenn Greenwald highlights a Time magazine article regarding former White House counsel Greg Craig. "In essence," Mr.
Idiocracy: Intelligentsia Against Intelligence
Seeded on Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:58 AM EST (Salon.com)
In an article that appeared on Salon.com last Friday, author and journalist David Sirota looks at two recent opinion columns by leading Beltway opinion-makers David Broder and Jackson Diehl and wonders whether "we aren't turning into a full-on, slobbering idiocracy." The object o …
Report: Right-Wing Extremism on the Rise
Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:52 AM EST
From the Associated Press came word this week of a new report issued by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) regarding a "resurgence" in the right-wing militia movement. According to the report, this resurgence coincides, in part, "with the advent of the Obama administration."
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