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Truly strange times we live in. I'm too young to have experienced McCarthyism but from what I've read and seen I imagine that the level of demagoguery has to be roughly equivalent. What's missing is a modern day Edward R. Murrow to alert everyone to the damage the demagogue is doing to the country. The right and left wings of this country now exist in echo chambers of "news" like Fox and Daily Kos, misreading opinion for fact.
When one regularly demonizes anyone who disagrees with him, as has happened on both sides of the aisle, reasonable men will not pursue politics leaving the honest citizen with the likes of the current and future Congress.
Trade Your Heroes for Ghosts
by Eric Martin In what should have been heralded as a dramatic triumph for our criminal justice system and our laudable dedication to the rule of law, Ahmed Ghailani (who was involved in the embassy bombings in Africa in the late 1990s) was convicted and will likely serve life in prison (he face...
The Simpsons had Fox News' number years ago.
Fake Headlines, Believe Them, Come Back
by Eric Martin Ah, remember the days when Jake Tapper, Ruth Marcus and a host of others rushed to the aid of poor little Fox News when the White House suggested that the network served more as a GOP surrogate than a, well, fair and balanced news organization? Well, Fox News has put its money wh...
"The design we have developed with the Port Authority calls for not only rebuilding the retail space that was lost on 9/11, but going above and beyond what was there before. We want to create a real destination for visitors and shoppers, a center that will share many of the attributes of the city’s great retail hubs." - Larry Silverstein, Towers 2, 3, and 4 Developer
http://www.wtc.com/about/retail
So, there you have your sacred space that must be kept free of any whiff of Muslim taint. Sweet Lord, the depths of cynicism required by this controversy boggle the mind.
Stay Classy Harry
by Eric Martin Shorter Harry Reid: This woman who lost her son in Iraq is less American than you and me because she is a Muslim. And so was her son. Shameful and craven. Everyone involved in this despicable anti-Muslim hate fest should be deeply ashamed of themselves. To the core. This i...
You had me at ignorant.
And that goes for all the reflexive party-out-of-power criticism of any current administration.
Neocontrol
by Eric Martin Robert Farley has a very interesting piece on the reaction of the Republican Party establishment to Obama's resumption of Reagan-era arms control treaties with Russia, and what that reaction says about the evolution of foreign policy ideas in the GOP: Ironically, the attacks laun...
It will be unlawful for any person, corporation; organization local, state, or federal law enforcement officer; local or state
government; or any other entity to require or even ask an individual cardholder to produce their social security card for any purpose other than electronic verification of employment eligibility and verification of identity for Social Security Administration purposes.
From http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/Conceptual%20Outline%20of%202010%20Bill%20%28R-S-M%29.pdf
No carry, just verification that the government decrees you're eligible to work. I, however, am a definite believer in the slippery slope argument here.
Multipass
by Eric Martin This is just extremely, extremely wrongheaded: A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation’s immigration laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday. Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worke...
What steps are Democrats taking/you advocating to minimize it in HCR?
Now that HCR's the law of the land let me suggest that our entire government work together to ensure it works properly.
Trust but Verify
by Eric Martin Quelle surprise: A Senate panel investigating the causes of the nation's financial crisis on Thursday unveiled evidence that credit-ratings agencies knowingly gave inflated ratings to complex deals backed by shaky U.S. mortgages in exchange for lucrative fees. The Senate Permane...
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