Month: June 2011

(Not) Reaping What You Sow

It’s kind of fun to see such a clear example of a Republican governor getting slapped by reality. Gov. Nathan Deal is asking for an expedited report on how the crackdown on illegal immigration enacted by the General...

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Bush Officials Should Be Pauperized

So awesome on so many levels: After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and other projects in the first year...

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Wallace and Moyers On Our Precarious Future

An old interview has surfaced between Russian journalist Ostap Karmodi and the now-deceased American author David Foster Wallace. It took place in 2006. Wallace committed suicide exactly two years after this interview. I think...

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It’s Time to Buckle Up

There will be a debate tonight in New Hampshire between frontrunner Mitt Romney and Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.), former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.), former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, former...

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Petraeus Lied about Captured Taliban

Didn’t we see this movie before? You know, the one where the generals lie about the success of their Asian land war by cooking the books (i.e., inflating numbers of enemies killed and/or captured). In December,...

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