• BP’s gift to America just keeps on giving.
• The PA senate primary, in a dead heat.
• They’re all extremists now.
• Ya know — the “job” that W., H.W., and Reagan all failed to do.
• Where is this “ideologically pure” Democratic Party?
• The worst commencement address in history.

We’re sort of saved — now go spend money you don’t actually have to help out the big banks.

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Yes, Saturday May 22nd is Harvey Milk’s eightieth birthday. His adopted hometown of San Francisco, and especially his beloved Castro nieghborhood, made big plans.

If you are not in a position to arrange a boycott, call, fax and snail mail both of your Senators and your House Member and tell them to co-sponsor the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act.

At the same time Gen Petraeus meets with Wali Karzai, Afghan prosecutor accuses US Special Forces of running an “outlaw militia” backed by Karzai and issues arrest warrant for a US Special Ops commander

Like a modern-day Ministry of Truth, the American Psychological Association (APA) has scrubbed the webpage describing “deception scenarios” workshops that were part of a conference it conducted with the CIA and Rand Corporation on July 17-18, 2003. In addition, the APA erased the link to the page, and even all mention of its existence, from another webpage from its July 2003 Science Policy Insider News that briefly described the conference.

In suggesting in his press conference with President Karzai that he will not negotiate with the Taliban until the U.S. military has demonstrated “effectiveness in breaking their momentum”, President Obama seemed to be embracing the shibboleth that you don’t negotiate with an adversary until you can do so from a “position of strength”. But when your strength is built on sand, as it is in Afghanistan, the notion that you must “negotiate from strength” is the worst kind of bunkum.

[Welcome Dr. Larry Rosen, and Hosts Jayan Kalathil and Melissa Bolton-Klinger] [As a courtesy to our guests, please keep comments to the book.  Please take other conversations to a previous thread.  - bev] Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn In his new book, Rewired, Professor Larry Rosen tackles an intriguing subject: the [...]

Simply put, the president’s continued troop increases aren’t working.