"There has been zero net job creation since December 1999," the WaPo piece explained. "No previous decade going back to the 1940s had job growth of less than 20 percent. Economic output rose at its slowest rate of any decade since the 1930s as well."
I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but David Brooks actually had an excellent column in yesterday's New York Times that makes several insightful and important points.
Just how far can one erroneous terrorism story travel?
Not too long ago, blaming America's leaders for attempted terrorist attacks was considered borderline treasonous. . . That, it turns out, only applies to Republican presidents.
It may be a long time since he played Captain Kirk, but William Shatner still knows how to punch out a Klingon when necessary. Watch him take on the unofficial leader of the Republican party and make a public fool of him.
Here is a story that should really make your blood run cold.
On November 17, 2009, AirTran flight 297 was scheduled to travel from Atlanta to Houston-Hobby. During taxi a passenger was non-compliant with Crew Members, using a cell phone and taking pictures.
She noted, for example, that White House officials "try to claim that the stimulus bill worked and I just look at all the polling data and no one believes it." In other words, it doesn't matter what's true -- it matters whether people can be misled into believing things that aren …
Republican lawmakers were nearly unanimous in their opposition to the economic recovery package that rescued the economy from the abyss.
Police said no charges have been filed against Mark Campano, 56. Police found 30 completed pipe bombs in his apartment along with components to make more, plus 17 guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
In both cases, the loss of these young soldiers was compounded by a disturbing reality: The assailants had been under investigation by the FBI. In the more recent case, it would be easy enough to point fingers at the FBI. Its counterterrorism agents concluded that Maj.
Liberals, according to the columnist Charles Krauthammer, wanted to medicalize Major Hasan's crime — call it an act of insanity rather than of terrorism. . .
If you wonder why something like the Fort Hood shooting could happen, and why no one noticed the warning signs, look no further. Psychologists treating veterans with mental problems are strongly discouraged from noticing signs of danger, or warning about them.
This story is a couple of years old, but in light of the tragic events at Fort Hood, perhaps it bears another look, and some careful consideration.
About 20 minutes into yesterday's right-wing rally on the Hill in opposition to health care reform, one of the protestors suffered a heart attack. Fortunately, as Dana Milbank reported, medical professionals were able to respond quickly.
Will this finally convince some of you that Fox "News" is indeed an advocacy, and not a news organization? This would be considered an enormous breach of journalistic ethics and integrity for a news station that possessed either of those qualities.
Watch Jon Stewart's hilarious take-down of Fox "News," using their own claims about the difference between their news and opinion programming to demonstrate that they are not a news network.
This article was already seeded last summer, but it bears revisiting, in view of the wailing we've heard about the cruel victimization of innocent, helpless little Fox News by a White House that dared to call them on b***s***.
The Obama administration's basic charge against Fox News is undeniably true: The network functions as the propaganda wing of the Republican Party.
What a grim and ominous autumn this has been! Obama is at a crossroads, approaching his Rubicon, and in danger of facing his Waterloo if he doesn't fire his entire staff, who are obviously giving him bad advice, and start listening to wise people like me.
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Right-wing pundit Michael Ledeen published an item this week on Barack Obama's "college thesis," which Obama allegedly wrote as a student at Columbia 25 years ago. Leeden cited some website, which ran a piece in August. . .
To understand what is going on today, it is essential to remember that where Ailes came from, "Nixonian" was not an insult but a badge of honor -- and seething hatred and even persecution of the press, rather than mere criticism, was a way of life.
With hypocrisy that pervasive, who could ever hope to take note of all of it? Still, the complaints from America's Right -- and especially former Bush officials -- that the Obama administration is attempting to "control the media," all because the White House criticizes Fox News …
Notice that for Buchanan in this column, it is axiomatic that America was once defined by its whiteness. This is what he means by "tradition." America - once uniformly white - is now, for him and those he speaks for, bewilderingly multicultural and multi-confessional.
In his new column yesterday, National Review's Rich Lowry slams President Obama for investing too much time in condemning his predecessor. There are a few problems with the argument. . .
One quote really hit home for me last week. It is quite typical of a certain kind of paranoid conservative subculture; it reflects conspiracy theories, and it's motivated by extreme antipathy to Barack Obama.
The Republican Party chairman on Sunday accused Democrats of a double standard by accepting Sen. Harry Reid's apology for racial remarks about Barack Obama instead of demanding Reid's ouster as majority leader.
Rush kicked things off on this snowy Open Line Friday by pondering whether his state of Florida was the only state without snow on the ground. Rush lobbed another shot in his war on science, noting the "deep freeze" that we have was "totally missed by science."
As with most attempts to judge Obama, a little perspective helps. So let's review, shall we? This is the biggest single piece of social legislation in 40 years. The Congressional Budget Office predicts it will indeed insure 30m people.
On his radio show today, Glenn Beck accused someone, somewhere, of orchestrating phone calls about the conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in America. "Today there is a concerted effort on all radio stations to get birthers on the air," said Beck.
Did you rent-a-mob article get flagged for removal? I thought it was very good.
— blll
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