Wow. Someone has been reading my damn blog. LIONS AND LAMBS….Union boss Andy Stern today: It is time to admit that the employer-based health care system is dead — a relic of the industrial economy. America cannot compete in the new global economy when we are the only industrialized nation on earth that puts the …
Archives for February 2007
Campaign Bloggers Open Thread
Dear political campaigns – don’t hire me. Honestly, sometimes I skim through the archives and cringe a little. In general I understand the instinct to incorporate bloggers into political campaigns. After all, few people understand a new media better than the new medianauts themselves. That said, in many cases it probably is not the greatest …
Dilemmas
The Edwards/Marcotte flap (and yes, it is a flap now) continues on, leaving me in a bit of a pinch: The Catholic League, a conservative religious group, is demanding that Mr. Edwards dismiss the two, Amanda Marcotte of the Pandagon blog site and Melissa McEwan, who writes on her blog, Shakespeare’s Sister, for expressing anti-Catholic …
Chinook Sea Knight Downed Near Fallujah
That makes five US choppers downed since January 20. Since we don’t have nearly enough troops to secure the ground lanes even the brass travels by chopper, leaving us vulnerable to catastrophic losses. The Soviets began losing Afghanistan when bin Laden’s group started downing their helicopters. Without access to safe air transport or air support …
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Spectering
John Sununu. Gordon Smith. Chuck Hagel. Republicans are terrified of these Iraq war resolutions. If they vote for escalation they will wear it like an albatross through the ’08 elections. If they vote against it they will have personally buried their party’s signature issue. It’s an impossible position. Big surprise that three Senators who spoke …
Cassus Belli
It is not an understatement to say that we sit on the edge of war with Iran. Earlier today a group of armed men wearing Iraqi commando uniforms siezed Jalal Sharafi, the second secretary at the Iranian embassy in Baghdad. The uniforms suggested a unit affiliated with the American command hierarchy, which only means so …
Just Acting Out
Ted Haggard update: The Rev. Ted Haggard emerged from three weeks of intensive counseling convinced he is “completely heterosexual” and told an oversight board that his sexual contact with men was limited to his accuser. That is according to one of the disgraced pastor’s overseers, who on Monday revealed new details about where Haggard has …