If Obama Treated Israel Like Reagan Did, He’d Be Impeached

At least that’s what Chemi Shalev of Haaretz says. Imagine if Israel would launch a successful preemptive strike against a country that is building a nuclear bomb that threatens its very existence, and the American president would describe it as “a tragedy”. And then, not only would the U.S. administration fail to “stand by its ally”, as Republicans pledged this week, but it would actually lend its...

White House Issues Call To Respect Protesters Rights

…in Russia. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that the United States supported the right to peaceful protest in Russia as it does “anywhere in the world.” “We expect that those demonstrations will remain peaceful on behalf of all parties, whether they’re the demonstrators or whether they are those keeping social order,” she said. “So our expectation is that if there are protests,...

Jon Huntsman Proposes A “Citizen’s Legislature”

Honestly, I like this idea.  Too much of what’s gone on in Washington the past few decades is due to professional legislatures and the influence of lobbyists and their money. Mentioning a new major policy idea as almost an aside, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman quietly rolled out a new proposal last night, saying that he would push for a “citizen legislature” if elected president. The proposal...

The New @RickSantorum Starvation Diet

If there’s one thing that’s fairly consistent, it’s that in current Republican eyes welfare for poor people is bad, but welfare for the wealthy and corporations is good. Rick Santorum, hopeless 2012 candidate, has decided that we don’t really need a food stamp program because….wait for it…. because the US has an obesity problem. Yep, according to him, because there are fat...

School Prayer Isn’t Banned, So Quit Saying That!

Rick Perry‘s latest web ad “Strong” has seemingly set the interwebs ablaze, and not in a good way.  As of this writing, the “dislikes” of the video on YouTube outnumber the “likes” by ~ 231,000 to 5,000.  Yes, that’s a ratio of ~46:1.  Aside from the bigoted, homophobic statement about gays in military being something “wrong” with this country, his...