Lots of people, me included, lashed out, figuratively, against the Goldmans and BOAs who colluded to turn the nation’s mortgages into casino chips before essentially robbing U.S. homeowners collectively of about 40% of their built-up equity, on average. Needless to say, that episode, in which virtually none of the robber barons have been held responsible, [...]
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Back in October the United Nations asked an independent British counter-terrorism expert to investigate the legality of “targeted assassinations” conducted on behalf of the United States in Pakistan and elsewhere. So it turns out the investigator, a.k.a. the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights, a.k.a. Ben Emmerson, visited Pakistan the other day, and [...]
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The other day I expressed dismay over President Obama’s continued stonewalling and failure to address how it is he thinks it’s legal for the Executive Branch to designate an unnamed handful of “senior officials” as being qualified to create a list of humans they consider terrorists of such dangerous magnitude that they may be assassinated [...]
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So now the Obama administration is wringing its collective hands over the latest war atrocity – the apparent fact that a U.S. soldier went ape-shit and murdered 16 Afghan civilians – and wondering aloud whether they ought to order withdrawal of our sons and daughters from this moronic war. But their conclusion is “nah,” we [...]
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to pay for their wars. Real conservatives also understand the fiscally responsible reasons why defense spending shouldn’t be put on the grandkids’ Visa cards, and aren’t afraid to step outside GOP-sanctioned talking points to explain financial reality to the dunderheads. Alan Simpson is a real conservative. Too bad the Wyoming Republican is a former instead [...]
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