Archive for March, 2011
The Only Logical End Game for Libya: Elections
On all four Sunday shows yesterday, the common topic was Libya. “Should we of gotten involved” and “should we of explained how we intend to get out before we intervened”, were the questions of the day. The one question NO ONE asked and NO ONE volunteered an answer to was “How do we get out?” Donald Rumsfeld of […]
March 28, 2011
Posted in: Middle East, Politics, Seems Obvious to Me, War
This All Sounds Terribly Familiar
Right down to the day in fact. March 19th, the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the United States once again engages in military air strikes against a Middle Eastern nation. Only this time, the expansion of our military into a third front is being committed by a President that was elected by a […]
March 21, 2011
Posted in: Middle East, Politics, Terrorism, War
Japan, Iraq, gas prices, and other disasters
After such a convoluted week, this weeks’ Op/Ed may seem a bit convoluted as well, so bear with me. I’ll do my best to tie everything in. After suffering one of the worst earthquakes in history, followed by a massive tsunami that may have caused more death & destruction than the quake itself, Japan’s worst […]
March 14, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Energy Independence, Environment, Middle East, Money, Politics, War
Special Edition: A Tale of Two Fake Interviews: Walker vs. Schiller
Last month, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker got “punked” by a Buffalo, NY radio morning-show host pretending to be billionaire Conservative activist “David Koch”. And yesterday, Conservative slam-journalist and convicted felon James O’Keefe posted a hidden-camera video interview with National Public Radio’s Senior VP Ron Schiller and Senior Director of Giving Betsy Liley. The video, shot last […]
March 10, 2011
Posted in: Middle East, myth busting, Politics, Racism, Rants, Religion, Right-wing Facism, Right-Wing Insanity, Taxes
Republicans in charge, unemployments falls. Were they right?
Everyone has been obsessed this past week watching the slow-moving train wreck that is Charlie Sheen. I bring this up for one reason and one reason only. If you’ve ever watched his show, you might have noticed these white screens of text that appear just for a split second immediately following the credits. If you […]
March 7, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Jobs, Money, myth busting, Politics, Taxes