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  • Battling ISIL: For the Hearts and Minds of our own Citizens

    Last night President Obama said we will attack ISIL (or ISIS or IS…). Yes, they are extremely nasty, it makes sense to attack people who massacre religious minorities and behead US reporters. Even the Pope agrees that in this case violence must be met with violence. That is the easy part. But the scariest aspect […]

  • Associated Press and Passwords

    Dear AP, Today you tweeted that there were two explosions in the White House and Obama was injured. It seems you didn’t intend to do so. Someone else broke into your Twitter account. In other words, someone else had your password. Jeeze, it isn’t that complicated: Make up a password, with some random stuff in […]

  • The Southern Strategy and How the Democrats will Rescue the GOP

    I read a story about how it was the gay vote that pushed Obama over the top. No, other stories say it was single white women. No, it was blacks. No, it was Latinos. No, it was east Asians. No, it as unions. No, it was all of the above. Had Romney shaved off just […]

  • Intentionally "Pulling a Biden", Mark II, "True Crime"-Edition

    Today the Des Moines Register lamented that they had a great phone interview with Obama (seeking their endorsement), that he was lucid and frank and enlightening (I forget the details, I am vamping, but you get the general idea), but that it was off-the-record.  They wrote a blog posting about it, moping over the great […]

  • Romney's Not Stupid

    Chattering classes are saying that Romney criticizing of our embassy–criticism released while the embassy in Cairo was under attack–these folks are saying that this was stupid.  Oh, how limited the critic’s vision. It was wrong for Romney to make such criticism, but was is not stupid.  Not stupid, that is, if his only goal is […]

  • Hollywood has the term "magic negro", but how much magic do we expect from this mortal man Obama?

    I heard on news this morning about reactionaries doing well in Greece, and I remember to note the general swing to the right in Europe: this is valuable perspective. Obama has been very disappointing to those on the left, but remember the environment he is in. Who in the world has resisted swinging way right […]