I’m sorry. No matter how I try, the last two days I can’t seem to get any blogging done. Between sustained power outages and parenting duties, the stars will not align for me. I tried the bookstore, but I used up all my time feeding, playing, and changing the FinnMan. I have to say, though, that the news cycle is pretty boring right now. The most amusing thing I’ve seen today is Ta-Nehisi Coates bringing a hammer to Gov. McDonnell and the GOP. Maybe you’ve got something to share that might give me some inspiration when I do get the increasingly rare combination of power and time to think.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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I’m kind of unhappy that Obama can now assassinate America citizens. Sigh.
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Was about time, Anwar al-Awlaki should have his citizenship revoked, as his allegiance lies with the opposition party in Yemen. I’m sure it relates to the Fort Hood killings.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Do you understand what you are saying? And it’s a good question and one I didn’t see Greenwald talk about(though I might have missed it). Why hasn’t his citizenship been revoked? But since it hasn’t, it’s a very troubling development. Even Attackerman thinks so.
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Osama Bin Laden is holed up in AfPak region for conspiracy in deadly attacks of 9/11 and East African Embassy bombings. Anwar al-Awlaki is holed up in Yemen mountains, he won’t be traveling abroad, he played his game in Fort Hood killings and attempted bombing of Nortwestern airliner on Christmas day. The only message these two deserve is to be delivered by drone. These two are exceptions to the rule.
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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."One is an American citizen, one isn’t. Glad to see you agree with George Bush about the Constitution.
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Can’t have faith in proper execution of order see here and here. I am opposed to the Iraq War, however I do consider the U.S. to be at war with the al-Qaeda organization of Osama Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri. The extended battlefield stretches from Mali – Somalia – Yemen – Saudi Arabia – Afghanistan – Pakistan – Malaysia to the Philipines. Any and all military force can be used on the battlefield, targeted drone attacks included. There is sufficient intelligence and public knowledge al-Awlaki is an al-Qaeda accomplice. Yemen is a hot-bed of al-Qaeda terrorism. There is no secrecy, the information is out there and Anwar al-Awlaki can turn himself in to the authorities in Yemen. No hard feelings if he is willing to stand trial in civilian court.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."why not write about THAT Booman?
Seems to me it’s worth writing about when “the most progressive president ever” is to the right of national review when it comes to executing americans without so much as a trial.
even manson got a trial. so did Tim McVeigh.
Andrew McCarthy was pretty into it though.
yeah, but that’s hardly someone you want to be compared to.
Love TNC.
The FinnMan changes every day. The news will wait.
if i were you, i would change “progressive community” to something else, because that word is the object of derision.
it would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
an extended and keenly personal dissection of the teabaggers has been making the rounds. it jumps off gene hackman’s lines from “mississippi burning”: “…who are you better than?”. go read the whole thing.
i hit some of the same notes on my own blog in a february post called “boston tea party 76”
That’s fantastic.
The new health care reform law is, arguably, the first major, progressive social legislation passed in over a generation—which means it is the first such law passed in a post-Jim Crow political system.
The great progressive legislative accomplishments of the Progressive Era, the New Deal and the Great Society all took place after Plessy v. Ferguson and before the Dixiecrats left the Democratic party.
Perhaps part of the unsettled nature of our politics today is due to the fact that it’s unprecedented to have progressives all in one political party, and setting (and enacting) the national agenda.
It’s new for us, and it’s new for the conservatives (they like it less than we do).
It is the result of the reframing of the political parties as ideological, a strategy that the modern conservative movement saw as leading them to the permanent power they would like to become accustomed to.
If all of the progressives and moderates are primaried out of the Republican Party, they have to go somewhere, eh what?
Until 1964, American parties never were exclusively ideological in division. For much of US history, they were regional in division.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1161409.html
Enjoy the time with Finn. It often goes too quickly.
At least you could post a gratuitous Finn pic.