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MSNBC is showing video of US troops leaving Iraq, heading for the Kuwait border.  The Army's 4th Stryker Bridage Combat Team is escorting the last 14,000 combat troops out of Iraq.  It's a good step, in my opinion, but the US government is still leaving behind 50,000 "advisors" which is disconcertingly reminiscent of the Viet Nam exit strategy.  If they are truly used for training and support, all the better, but this shameful chapter of...

Robert Shapiro at Sonecon via Ezra Klein at the Washington Post (emphasis added): "From December 2007 to July 2009 - the last year of the Bush second term and the first six months of the Obama presidency, before his policies could affect the economy - private sector employment crashed from 115,574,000 jobs to 107,778,000 jobs. Employment continued to fall, however, for the next six months, reaching a low of 107,107,000 jobs in December of 2009....

 In news from the Republican Bizarro World, Karl Rove told Neil Cavuto and Fox News viewers that George Bush never blamed Bill Clinton for anything. Bush cowboyed up and took responsibility---because blaming his predecessor would have "poisoned the political atmosphere," and besides,  it's just "not his style." (If you can't stomach 3:16 of Karl Rove jump ahead to around 2:10 of the clip).      Dave Neiwert at Crooks and Liars has some instances that must...

To listen to the Bush administration history revisionists and legacy reconstructionists one would think that his 2 terms in office started on September 12, 2001. For years they have reminded us how President Bush "kept us safe" for over 7 years following 9/11, which is kind of like saying that other than the iceberg incident the captain of the Titanic had an impeccable safety record. Now that Republicans are running on a platform of taking...

I am a racist. I admit it. I can't stand so many of these old(er) white men who sit on their asses collecting a paycheck they don't deserve while people under them with no power or authority, but a heckuva lot of responsibility for P&L, lose their jobs as a direct result of what the old(er) white man did or didn't do.I can't stand the fact that in Corporate America, it can be a...

That old-fashioned notion of equal justice under the law was dealt another blow by the Supreme Court yesterday as they refused to hear the appeal of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was detained, tortured, and imprisoned for more than a year, without charges, because he was labeled an "al-Qaeda suspect" by the Bush administration. And in what is become an all too familiar occurrence:"...the Obama administration chose to come to the defense of Bush...

President Bush admits to committing war crimes and the media overlooks the story to report about Obama's job offers to Democratic primary challengers. You may not have heard, but  in a speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan, former President of the United States of America admitted to committing a war crime. President George W. Bush said, "Yeah, we water boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I'd do it again to save lives." In the same speech he went...

Every time I watch Meet the Press I'm reminded of the magnitude of the loss of Tim Russert. Yesterday's program only reinforced that as an unprepared Tom Brokaw allowed Karl Rove's claim that it was not the policy of the Bush administration to use Iraqi oil revenues to offset the cost of the war to go unchallenged: Here's the exchange:  <br />Brokaw's next statement was, "Well, let's talk about the insurgency." Here's what Russert would...

This appeared on CNN's Crossfire in 2004. Not much seems to have changed. We're still grossly partisan as a nation (or at least the politicians are), and the media are still hacks."I'm not your monkey" ... Jon Stewart, I love you.As you know, CNN cancelled Crossfire in January of 2005 -- more info in an interesting follow-up piece here: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/01/4509.ars" ... most major media outlets, have a long way to go before the thinking public truly respects...

Just as the right scrambles to blame yesterday's plane crash into a building in Austin, TX as a left wing nutjob, about 600 people as of the time of this publication have joined a group called "the Philosophy of Joe Stack" on Facebook. The discussions on the page paint Stack as some kind of "hero" for committing an act of terrorism that " is no different than what was going on in this same land...