Archive for May, 2009
Immigration, Neighbors, and Enemies
It is like a science-fiction movie from the 1950’s. Mysterious radiation from outer space takes over the brains of Asian men in America, turning them into moral zombies that go on killing sprees.
Obama’s Idea of Justice
When you think about it, Sonia Sotomayor is the perfect pick for the Supreme Court—in Barack Obama’s America.
Succumbing to the Dark Side
Torture is a violation of U.S. and international law. Yet, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, on the basis of legally incompetent memos prepared by Justice Department officials, gave the OK to interrogators to violate U.S. and international law.
What is History? Part 34
It is generally recognised today that Lincoln could never have carried the Northwest in 1860, and with it the country, without German support. —Andreas Dorpalen
Rare as the Proverbial Hen’s Tooth
Airport screeners searching someone who actually might be a terrorist. Airport screeners not searching blonde, blue-eyed young women.
What is History? Part 33
There is such a thing as imperial fatigue, and servitude seems a light burden after the exhausting weight of power. —Octavio Paz
The Way We Are, No. 5
Look at the bailout carefully. The whole business constitutes an astonishing evasion of moral responsibility on the part of a ruling establishment. A plan by which the ordinary citizens and their descendants are made to pay for the mistakes of the capitalists and politicians and to continue to provide them with the wealth to which they have become accustomed.
The Way We Are, No. 6
Bankers have always been contemptuous of the public. Now that the politicians are giving them even bigger guarantees of their riches, they will be even more so.
Watching Obama Morph Into Dick Cheney
America has lost her soul, and so has her president. A despairing country elected a president who promised change. Americans arrived from every state to witness in bitter cold Obama’s swearing-in ceremony. The Mall was packed in a way that it has never been for any other president.
Did Bibi Box Obama In?
On Sept. 20, 2002, as the War Party was beating the drum for preventive war on Iraq, lest we wake up to “a mushroom cloud over an American city,” The Wall Street Journal introduced an eminent voice to confirm that, yes, Saddam was driving straight for an atomic bomb.
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