I received the following from a friend of mine, who sent it to his local paper as well. I’ve asked his permission to post it here, in its entirety. It concerns an issue which, while we may hope represents an unfortunate part of our history long outgrown, still rears its…
Compliments of Dana Milbank. For those who'd like to reminisce.
Paul Krugman points his finger at the ever-more-visible source of the problem. Our economy is extremely fragile and we are all about to pay the price--we'll not all of us . . . Now the bill is coming due, and almost everyone - that is, almost everyone except the people…
According to this post at Alternet, there are many forms of rampant self-indulgence. The GOP specializes in the most pernicious forms: While the culture at large was adjusting to the idea that families don't all look the same and that private sexual morality was not the business of the state,…
If you think it’s difficult to read about the way America is wasting lives in Iraq, it’s just the beginning. In an article entitled "The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush," Vanity Fair has examined the ways in which the Bush Administration has wrecked the American economy. There is lots of…