When some bureaucrat at the Department of Defense sent a memo to Congress opposing Sen. Al Franken’s amendment to protect victims of rape, the neo-liberal bureaucracy was doing what bureaucracies always do. It was erasing the human in deference to a system, and with it all hope of morally defensible action. In my own case [...]

ABC’s This Week just couldn’t stand the thought that fair and balanced Fox News was being picked on by the White House. So it invited “Foxy” (is she Ms. April, or July?) Laura Ingraham to balance out a center-right panel that still allows George Will to appear without a truth squad.

Judy Miller must think she’s smarter than Susan Crawford. Crawford, after all, while still convening authority for military commissions in Gitmo, admitted that Mohammed al-Qahtani had been tortured. And by that, she was referring to the treatment that started in November 2002, nine months after Gitmo opened; she was talking about conduct that was ultimately [...]

Should we be surprised that Empress Snowe wants to use the federal government to take power away from the states?

Major topics this week on the talk shows are Afghanistan, health care reform, and money matters — including executive pay restrictions and unemployment benefit extensions.

Snow Business starring Tweety and Sylvester. This Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon was released on January 17, 1953.

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You know, I am beginning to suspect that Jonah Goldberg may just be a disingenuous twit who writes like a douche. No, really. There is much gnashing of teeth and rending of cloth these days about the death of civility. Apparently, like Cupid with his arrow or a pixie with fairy dust, some magical sprite [...]

Eric Cantor, the #2 Republican in the House, complains in a CNN editorial today under the headline, “It’s time for a bipartisan health bill.”

Rep. Weiner has published a list of 55 Republicans who are opposed to the public option, even though they all are on Medicare.

The Obama administration hasn’t been willing to change any of the fundamentals that make it possible for entrenched corporate interests to skin the American people. Health care is an obvious example.