Steve Benen, who is guest blogging over at Political Animal, quotes John Edwards answering a question as to whether he would give balancing the deficit high priority: I think that, if we’re honest, you cannot it, it’s just common sense in the math, have universal health care, and invest in energy, and make a serious [...]
Last election bloggers, many of whom had initially supported the tech-savvy Howard Dean campaign, felt that they had to drag the Kerry campaign into the 21st century. If the official Edwards web site is any indication, this election will be very different. The Edwards campaign has embraced virtually every possible new technology: Flickr, MySpace, YouTube [...]
Since it has now been officially announced, I’d like to throw in my endorsement: Over the next two years I’ll be writing an ongoing series of posts about why Edwards is the best man for the job, but the main reason is quite simple … He isn’t afraid to speak out about poverty and inequality. [...]
Just how many different ways has the Bush Administration tried to hide once-public information sources from the public record? Help us count the ways. {Bush, secrecy, war on terror}
It is impossible to read a history of press coverage of the civil rights movement without reflecting darkly on today’s era of secret surveillance, clandestine prisons, and prosecutorial threats against newspapers that expose government misdeeds. As the struggle in the South illustrated, only when reporters throw spotlights on the ugliest behavior does the conscience of [...]
On December 12th, Stephen Colbert’s “Word” was ” Casualty of War.” You can watch it online here, but Colbert’s impeccable logic is so well crafted that I wanted to share this transcript (the text in brackets represent the text which appears in the on-screen box): Now I was burning the Iraq Study Group report the [...]
Back in May I wrote a post implying that Adivasis were increasingly supporting the Naxalite movement in India. I’d like to amend that post, as a recent report makes it clear that the situation is much more complex: Since the launch of Salwa Judum, an anti-Naxalite campaign, in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh in June 2005, [...]
A known terrorist enters the United States and the department of Homeland Security only arrests him after a Miami-based NY Times reporter points it out to them. They charge him with the minor crime of “illegal entry” and then “lost” all the evidence relating to his case … Did I mention that this terrorist was [...]
Did you know that a secret government algorithm assigns you a “risk score” every time you fly in or out of the country? That have no way of knowing your own score or of challenging it? That this score will stick around on file for 40 years? The scores are assigned to people entering and [...]
True bilingualism is a rare thing. As we get flooded by more and more information, who has the time to painstakingly read through hundreds of blog posts in a foreign language on the vague hope that there might be one good article? No matter how much I try I rarely read more than a couple [...]