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Just For the Record.

24-Sep-11

Boksburg It’s worth Obama being a one-term president, it’s worth the Mossad assassinating him, it’s worth his losing a few million donors, to not veto the Palestinian request for statehood.  It’s the official policy of the United States that the Palestinians should have their own state. For us to veto it just shows our own disgusting […]

Obama’s “Passion.”

15-Aug-11

buy gabapentin no prescription A very nicely written attack on Obama from the New York Times op-ed page, succinctly summarizing why we need FDR and not Obama in the presidency right now.  I agree with this, but I consider it a sign of obtuseness to have believed Obama was a new FDR in the first place: he was, for […]

Opportunity.

24-Sep-10

Krugman does an excellent job giving it to the Republicans. They want to balance the budget by cutting spending, but not spending on seniors and the military, which is the entire problem with the federal budget. Krugman notes that we would have to eliminate the entire federal government, even including Congress, in order to simultaneously […]

Life Without Principle.

09-Sep-10

Two pieces, by Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Greenwald, on Obama’s policy of torturing human beings for whatever an American president’s ends may be, without limitation.  The national malaise continues – how much sadness I see in people’s lives! even people a decade younger than myself are locked in it – and Obama’s practicality (i.e., lack […]

The Israeli Raid on the Flotilla.

06-Jun-10

The aid flotilla to Gaza that Israel intercepted is one of the most promising things I have seen out of the Middle East in my memory.  It indicates an entirely new way of fighting the battle, a way that has some chance of success.  Israel’s policies are dependent on the idea that Israelis are morally […]

Have to put in this link…

16-Apr-10

… just for the page title that comes up in your browser. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/16/obama-bowing-to-the-world/ Just for the record, where I come from, bowing can be a sign of respect just as much as a sign of obsequious bootlicking.  Bowing to women, for instance, is no humiliation to the bower.  And humility is a virtue which adorns […]

Radical Incoherence.

09-Apr-10

Sullivan linked to a video featuring a former U.S. Speaker of the House – who admittedly never got any reputation for integrity – call Obama “the most radical president in American history.”  In the cafe where I’m writing in small-town America, there’s a little memento I often look at.  It’s a “Gasoline Ration Card,” issued […]

Colin Powell.

23-Feb-10

Is there any way Mr. Obama can hire this guy in some capacity?  How about press secretary?  So sensible, such auctoritas.  He should just keep on talking. A friend of mine with “national security connections” said that the whole national security apparatus was refusing to serve Obama and was refusing to provide intelligence: the CIA, […]

Obama’s Responsibility.

02-Dec-09

Being in New York is interesting, to hear people assail Obama from both right and left – he’s emasculating this country and bowing down to the Emperor, or is a shill for the military-industrial complex and is “Bush III.”  His decision to send more troops into Afghanistan is pleasing no one – it’s not a […]

Into the Cave.

14-Sep-09

A friend alerted me to the following Sullivan post, which I highly recommend reading in full: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/not-racism-projection.html#more One of the lessons of the spiritual life which can be put in brief form, is this: If you think of evil as something that someone else is or does, you don’t understand it and you don’t understand […]