Archive for May, 2011
President Bush called for Israel to return to its pre-1967 borders.
This weeks update is short & sweet. President Obama took a lot of heat from Republicans this past week for suggesting that Israel consider a modified return to their pre-1967 borders (prior to the 1967 Arab/Israeli War) when attempting to negotiate a peace agreement with the Palestinians. As President Obama noted, what he said publicly […]
May 23, 2011
Posted in: Middle East, myth busting, Politics
Paul-bearer. An eulogy for three ideologies.
Last week was a bad week for Republicans named “Paul”. The Libertarian Dynamic Duo of Rand & Ron Paul once again showed the world why the term “Libertarian” is just a convenient label for people that want to take already bad Conservative principles and push them to their most absurd extremes. And Republican wunderkind “Paul […]
May 16, 2011
Posted in: Economy, General, Infrastructure, myth busting, Politics, Racism, Seems Obvious to Me
Why Crediting Bush for OBL’s capture is dead wrong
If you’re like me, you just spent the better part of the past week listening to Right-wingers dismiss President Obama’s great achievement of finally getting Osama bin Laden, and give most of the credit to President Bush. Their arguments for doing so are filled with wingnut torture fantasies and baseless assumptions, not a single one of which holds […]
May 9, 2011
Posted in: Middle East, myth busting, Politics, Right-Wing Insanity, Terrorism
The Sin of O’Mission
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: I’m a supporter of President Obama. And if he is the DNC nominee in 2012, I will be voting for him… a tad reluctantly, I will admit. But he will have my vote. With that being said, few (real) Democrats have frustrated me the way President Obama has. During […]
May 2, 2011
Posted in: Election, Politics, Racism, Right-Wing Insanity