Yesterday, the Supreme Court threw our entire diplomatic corps, the State Department, and possibly every treaty the U.S. has ever signed that is still in force, into complete disarray. And in the […]
Obama: Eye to eye with Israel — or wandering eye?
For those who believe that the key to lowering the political temperature in the Middle East lies in snuffing out the pilot light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Senator Obama’s otherwise transcendent race […]
The Weekly Carboholic: US coal exports boost electricity prices and China's CO2 emissions
According to the New York Times, the U.S. has begun exporting coal to countries like Japan, Germany, India, and China. In the process, our domestic coal prices have risen more, percentage rise, […]
NYT on Obama: "Can a liberal be a unifier?" Progressives: "YES!"
By Martin Bosworth I’ve seen a lot of brain-crushingly stupid stuff coming out of the so-called “paper of record” in recent years, but this just takes the aneurysm-inducing cake: To achieve the […]
Clinton promises mortgage reform–by adopting right-wing talking points and policymakers
By Martin Bosworth Right now the Clinton campaign carnage is focused on whether or not falsely claiming to be shot at on a Bosnian tarmac qualifies you to be ready to answer […]
TunesDay: daylight kissing night
My old friend Adam Marsland has just released Daylight Kissing Night: Adam Marsland’s Greatest Hits, a greatest hits collection that draws from the best of both his solo and Cockeyed Ghost efforts, […]
Buchanan, Kristol, Hannity and those ungrateful negroes: a banner month in race relations
I guess there’s probably nothing Earth-shattering about revelations that FOX News “journalist” Sean Hannity was BFFs with a white supremacist. I mean, even if you don’t expect it, it’s not the sort […]
We can't take Iraq neat, we need a chaser
The upcoming presidential election and the economy are pretty poor excuses for our inability to focus on Iraq. Especially since we’ve not only passed the 4,000 mark of American dead, but 25 […]
Media 2015: Same as it ever was. But different.
by greg stene, ph.d. Bigtime news here. And the implications for newspapers and TV are large. For years, a lot of people supposedly in the know have said that when one significant […]
Neil Aspinall – just one of the "mad lads…"
I guess I could make my friend Denny the journalist happy and begin this way – with a lede: Neil Aspinall, friend of Paul, then George, then John, then Ringo, then The […]
