Month: November 2009

First, have you voted yet? No? What are you waiting for? Do it. Second, do you share my reaction to this, which is a cautious optimism in the short-term combined with a vague sense of dread over the long-term?

I think the general public is weakened enough now by PlayStation and reality shows to consent to a dictatorship without too much fuss. But I just can’t picture the U.S. Army firing shells at the Capitol or storming the...

It’s hard to believe that a year has come and gone since then candidate Obama became President-elect Obama and then President Obama. For some reason it seems like it has been longer than that I guess if you listen to the...

. No green line set bij International treaty or 1967 borders demanded by UNSC resolution? Clinton speaks of “disputed” instead of occupied territory of the West Bank. Netanyahu must be pleased. “Clinton had...

There never was any chance that the Senate would pass a robust public option (pegged to Medicare reimbursement rates) in the original bill that they would seek to merge with the House bill. In fact, no one I know thought that...