Doublethinking History

I dropped by Hullaballoo the other day and saw this post by Digby reacting to a post by the Littlest Cheeto denying the existence of buyer’s remorse in the Kool-aid Kingdom: Ferchristsake. Please, please spare us any more Drudgico stories about “the left.” Dredging up the primaries is nothing more than cheap link bait, designed [...]

Economics Food Fight

Finally we have something fun to talk about. This could save us from wallowing in the horrors of Obama’s health insurance company bailout bill all weekend long. Matt Taibbi’s latest piece came out in Rolling Stone weeks ago, but was only available to subscribers until recently. Suddenly there is a fascinating back and forth going [...]

Saturday Morning: We’re Living the “Shock Doctrine”

Good Morning Conflucians! Is it just me? Suddenly, I’m feeling almost in shock at what’s happening in our country and around the world. Maybe I could just regress back to childhood and watch cartoons on TV this morning? No. I have to stay present and face the reality of what is happening. When Reagan was [...]

My Nobel War Prize Speech Rebuttal

Friday Morning News and Views

Good morning Conflucians!!!! TGIF! HEALTH CARE REFORM BREAKING UPDATE: Failed health talks set up another working weekend for Senate I guess we’ll be live blogging again this weekend. I’m up for it! Maybe there’s still hope? Unfortunately, there is more bad news out there about the forced health insurance bill this morning. It is sounding [...]

Martha Coakley Wins Democratic Nomination for Senator from Massachusetts!

It’s over already. So far, Martha Coakley has won nearly twice as many votes as her closest opponent, Michael Capuano, who had the full support of the Obama contingent of the Democratic Party. Tonight the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party has won in Massachusetts. The story isn’t on-line yet, but on the New England [...]

It took these guys 350 years to accept the world goes ’round the sun

Take a good look at this picture.  These are the representatives of a global organization that is dictating the terms by which a woman’s uterus will operate. These guys, and they are ALL guys, have been in business for 1600 years.  Well, longer than that when you consider that what really happened was that the [...]

“Check or Checkmate” – Will Clinton Win in the End?

Dakinikat found this terrific op-ed by Colleen O’Connor at San Diego News Network, and posted a link to it in the previous thread. I thought it was so on-point that it deserved a post of its own. O’Connor describes the Obama-Clinton competition as a chess game, and argues that although Hillary lost the battle for [...]

Live Blog: Senate Health Care Debate

I just got home and discovered that the Senate debate on the “health care reform” bill is still on. I’m not sure how long they are going to keep debating today. Senator Ben Nelson (who is not a moderate, media!) has proposed his Stupak-clone anti-abortion amendment, and much of the debate today will focus on [...]

Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians! It’s a shocking 19 degrees here in the Boston area, and we have snow on the ground. I don’t like this one bit. Today is Pearl Harbor Day. The LA Times has a story on the discovery of a Japanese mini-submarine that may have participated in the attack that took place on [...]