Month: December 2008

Hilda Solis Gets Labor

Progressives had to wait for the last cabinet appointment to get a clear, unambiguous progressive champion selected for Obama’s cabinet. Some of the cabinet positions were filled by people that are fairly progressive, but...

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Hilda Solis Gets Labor

Progressives had to wait for the last cabinet appointment to get a clear, unambiguous progressive champion selected for Obama’s cabinet. Some of the cabinet positions were filled by people that are fairly progressive, but...

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It’s a great great day

Paul Weyrich died. I am very pleased. What a piece of moronic crap that guy was. There is NOTHING that he did in his life that had value. Some people die, and you think, “What a shame.” With Weyrich, I think,...

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What to do With the Torturers

Who will defend the Bush administration’s decision to abandon the Geneva conventions, torture people, and spy on Americans without warrants? With a new Senate Armed Services report out that points the finger for these...

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The Tailor of Mumbai

My December 10 article “Our Man in Bananastan” discussed how the hasty conclusion that Pakistani militants were behind the terror attack in India sounded like the bogus intelligence described in satiric espionage...

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