Monday Morning News and Views, Columbus Day Edition

Today is Columbus Day. That’s an important holiday here in Massachusetts, so I don’t have to teach today. Of course that doesn’t mean I don’t have work to do, but it’s still a nice break from my regular routine. But should we be honoring Christopher Columbus with a holiday?
Parades span the country [...]

Dear Mr. Fantasy…Dreaming of 2012

This story is a couple of days old; but since I don’t watch TV anymore, I didn’t hear about it until today. It seems that two of MSNBC’s most enthusiastic koolaid-slurpers, Keith Olberman and Eugene Robinson, had a discussion on last Thursday night’s Countdown about whether President Obama could find himself with primary challengers [...]

Friday Morning News

California Wildfires
Arson caused California blaze
A massive fire that has charred nearly 145,000 acres in Southern California and destroyed dozens of homes north of Los Angeles was caused by arson, a U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman said Thursday.
A homicide investigation has been initiated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department into the deaths of two firefighters as [...]

Don’t Expect Apologies From the Dark Minions of the Kool-Aid Kingdom

Dear Riverdaughter,
There is an interesting parallel between the situation of anti-Obama Democrats and that of the members of the resistance in post-WWII France. Given these parallels, I think it unlikely that we will receive an apology from the dark minions of the Kool-Aid Kingdom, generally-speaking. I think it more likely that they will continue to [...]

SCOTUS Reviews “Hillary” the Movie

{update:  Physical and Mental Health Warning!!! Watch right wing hate CDS youtubes at your own risk!!!}

Okay, here’s another constitutional question about which I am no authority but sure find interesting.   Here’s the link  to the NYT and Adam Liptak’s article today called  “Supreme Court to Revisit ‘Hillary’ Documentary”.   It’s high drama [...]

Hillary’s Gender Agenda

I’m feeling a little lonely at the moment because it seems every one here at The Confluence (but me) has gone on some kind of vacation.  So, I’m going to open a thread for you about Hillary Clinton’s New Gender Agenda as reported last week by the NY Times.
I have to say that Hillary really [...]

Where in the World is Hillary Clinton?

There’s a great answer to that question and the main question of David Rothkopf’s article at WaPo entitled It’s 3 a.m. Do You Know Where Hillary Clinton Is? His answer is:  She’s not answering those crisis calls at the White House. But she’s quietly revolutionizing American foreign policy. It’s nice to know at least some [...]

What Happened to Obama Nation?

Remember when all the Obots at the previously liberal blogs told us that Barack Obama would be the best candidate for President because Hillary Clinton would have to deal with all the old scandals of the ’90s? And remember how the Obots then dug up all the old right-wing attacks and used them against [...]

Thursday Morning News: Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime

At this time next week, I will be lolling on a beach in Maui.  Ahhhhh.   I can hardly wait to get out of the stifling humidity of NJ, a humidity I haven’t been able to escape now that my AC is kaput and I am determined to ride out the rest of the summer without [...]

This is what a feminist looks like

From the New York Times:

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton toured an African refugee camp Tuesday crowded with victims of violence and malnutrition, pledging $17 million in American aid to help stem the tide of rampant sexual abuse that has staggered war-ravaged eastern Congo.
Clinton’s voice cracked with emotion as she described an epidemic of [...]