Month: October 2010

There Must Be No Fox News in Brazil

That’s the only explanation I can think of for a surprising election result I will likely never see in the US of A: Environmental campaigners and Green party activists heralded a breakthrough today after a former...

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START Depends on Nuclear Modernization

I’m shocked to learn that Sen. Jim DeMint is implacably opposed to ratifying the START Treaty. On the other hand, it sounds like it has a good chance of being ratified in the lameduck session after the elections. However,...

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Taibbi Gives Obama Obscene Cover

Matt Taibbi’s latest blog post demonstrates again the reality disconnect that’s required by the dual jobs of providing cover for President Obama while still trying to display lefty street cred with an attack on the...

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Looks Center-Right To Me

Ryan Lizza’s latest piece in The New Yorker is about how climate change legislation failed in the Senate, but it’s also about how you pass a big, contentious bill in the Senate. And the way you do that is largely to...

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