The silent genocide

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Monday November 21, 2005 · 5:14 PM PST

2005/11/21 · 17:14

It kills without hesitation, without pause, without mercy. Its victims are the young and the old, from parents to children, with no thought of race or creed. It strangles out life slowly, brutally, watching coldly as people waste away, their limbs decaying, their minds disintegrating. It leaves families shorn of strength, dignity, and hope. Its mere existence is a blot on all of us - the fact that it can thrive in our so-called enlightened age makes a mockery of us all.

One thousand people are dying every hour. Twenty-four thousand a day, more than eight million a year - it matters little how you count, only that it is too many. Read More

Could Bush pull a Reagan?

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Wednesday November 02, 2005 · 9:00 AM PST

2005/11/02 · 09:00

A president with approvals down to the upper thirties. Moderates gone in disgust, only the unhappy conservative base left. A Supreme Court nominee withdrawn in humiliation. A scandal involving White House officials.

George Bush in 2005? No, Ronald Reagan in 1987.

Yet, somehow, Reagan managed enough of a turnaround for Bush senior to win in 1988, the first triple-term for a party since 1940. And if we aren't careful, we may be watching President McCain or Allen in 2009.

From Ken Duberstein (Reagan's chief of staff in 1987-88): Read More

Kaine is a Fighting Democrat

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Friday October 28, 2005 · 12:27 PM PDT

2005/10/28 · 12:27

The terrible irony of the attacks on Kaine is that he is actually the very kind of Fighting Democrat the blogosphere has longed for. To describe him as a weasel, and regard him in the same light as a Lieberman, is simply wrong.

Religion is usually the Republicans' ace in the hole, but Kaine has reversed this dynamic, infusing his faith into his campaign and using it to hit back at the Republicans, something that is going down well. Read More

ABC justifies torture

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Thursday October 27, 2005 · 9:09 AM PDT

2005/10/27 · 09:09

Yes, I admit it...I've been watching ABC's Commander in Chief. Despite the blatant political unreality of the series, I've found it strangely compelling.

Until this week's episode. This show was about terror, and torture. It presented both sides of the issue. And it presented them wrong.

Basic summary: a terrorist is caught crossing over from Canada, planning to blow up a Missouri elementary school. Intelligence reports that this terrorist group customarily does multiple simultaneous attacks and doesn't enter the US until 24 hours before. Ergo, there must be others somewhere, but only the captured terrorist knows who, or where, and he won't talk. We have 24 hours to get the information out of him. Do we use torture? Read More

Who pays for Katrina reconstruction? The poor

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Tuesday October 11, 2005 · 1:08 PM PDT

2005/10/11 · 13:08

The cruelty and selfishness of the Republican Party knows no bounds. Not content with having almost literally fiddled while New Orleans drowned, the president now plans to make poor people across America pay for the cost of rebuilding.

The administration's proposals would have the $200 billion in reconstruction costs financed by cuts to food stamps and Medicaid: Read More

The Economist and Daily Kos: 'teenage scribblers'

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Thursday October 06, 2005 · 1:26 PM PDT

2005/10/06 · 13:26

The Economist has finally discovered the Daily Kos. Its comments could have been thoughtful, but are not.

"Teenage scribblers". That's what the article says. No joke:

...the Democrats are split down the middle on everything from Iraq to gay marriage...

Worse still, the wrong side is getting the upper hand. A new generation of angry young activists have used their mastery of the internet to tilt the party to the left. Groups such as Moveon.org (which claims 3.3m members) and blogs such as the Daily Kos (which has thousands of partisans venting daily) now colour the whole tone of the political debate on the left.

The teenage scribblers of the left seem to be turning the Democrats into a deranged version of Pavlov's dog--reacting to every stimulus from Professor Rove's laboratory rather than thinking ahead...

The teenage scribblers are wedded to a suicidal strategy...

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Tuesday April 19, 2005 · 1:25 PM PDT

2005/04/19 · 13:25

Last week, the Chicago Transit Authority announced sweeping service cuts and fare increases unless the state could chip in $55 million in additional funding.

There was little response from the governor or legislature, except for sniping from Republicans that the CTA was making the whole thing up to put pressure on.

Text below, or see the original here. Read More

Canada: Liberals in free fall

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Monday April 11, 2005 · 12:45 PM PDT

2005/04/11 · 12:45

New EKOS poll.

Conservative: 36
Liberal 25
NDP: 21
Bloc Quebecois: 13
Green: 5

This would likely translate into a Conservative minority or even a narrow majority government. It is one of the lowest levels the Liberals have fallen to in the history of polling. Read More

The next battle: Medicaid

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Thursday March 03, 2005 · 4:47 PM PST

2005/03/03 · 16:47

As signs increase that the Bush Social Security plan is dying, we have to turn to defend his next target: Medicaid.

First the facts. Medicaid costs $320 billion a year. The federal share of that varies by state, but averages 57 percent; that is $182 billion, or about 8 percent of the federal budget. It covers 50 million people; at an average cost of $6,400 per recipient. Bush proposes $6 billion dollars of cuts a year, or 3 percent of the current total (at a time when costs are rising by 8 percent a year). Read More

The Great Red State Gamble

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Thursday February 24, 2005 · 2:36 PM PST

2005/02/24 · 14:36

As you all surely know by now, I did not become the new DNC Chair. But man oh man, I wish I could assume the reins for just one day. I would commission one commercial and then retire. I think the commercial I have in mind could single-handedly deliver a Pennsylvania Senate seat to the Dems. Read More

We are forgetting North Korea

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Friday February 11, 2005 · 8:54 AM PST

2005/02/11 · 08:54

Here on this site, the Gannon issue is overshadowing a much greater example of the Bush administration's incompetence and dishonesty.

North Korea has nuclear weapons.

Understand this. North Korea is headed by one of the most evil men in the world, who starves and tyrannizes his people. He's worse, by nearly an order of magnitude, than Saddam Hussein. He let nearly 2 million people starve in the famine of the 1990s. He keeps concentration camps and possibly gas chambers.

Bush invaded Iraq to prevent a dangerous dictator from acquiring nuclear weapons. Now -- a dangerous dictator has nuclear weapons. Read More

Canada is selling out to Bush

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Monday February 07, 2005 · 4:07 PM PST

2005/02/07 · 16:07

For those misguided who believe that Canada's Liberal government really is liberal, this news should disabuse you of that notion.

Canadian Internet pharmacies selling drugs to uninsured Americans at regulated Canadian prices have become a lifesaver for thousands of Americans. They have also created hundreds of jobs in Canada. The only losers are (mostly American) drug companies, deprived of their fat profit margins in the US.

So Big Pharma talks to their pal Bush. Bush in turn leans on Paul Martin, the Canadian version of Tony Blair (minus the political skill). And Martin complies: Read More

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