All is not well on Planet Hillary. Her wretched interview with Jeffrey Goldberg will not only alienate some of the more alert liberals. It will, or it should, also anger President Obama’s most fervent supporters. She’s doing him like Bill … Continue reading
We now have the odd case of an unambiguous imperialist-Zionist project, namely Kurdistan, that is an appealing alternative to what threatens it, namely the crazy-fascist so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). I previously linked to John Judis on … Continue reading
Nice collection of commentaries here. Hat-tip to my friend Louis. … Continue reading
No daylight here between our next president and Bibi the Butcher. Her moral obtuseness is awe-inspiring. And she wishes Obama had jumped into Syria. So we’re in for a mixture of aggression, incoherence (help the Syrian opposition without somehow helping ISIS), … Continue reading
I’m no pacifist. Those ISIS fuckers can’t die fast enough. The problem is how it could get done, and at what cost to innocent people. It feels a bit like a replay of the Kosovo affair. The Clinton Administration cried genocide, and … Continue reading
Also, as my friend Bob Dreyfuss said, folks are murderin’ folks. … Continue reading
We capture or arrest, they kidnap. We have soldiers; they have fighters. We are even-tempered; they are militant. Our bombardments are self-defense; theirs are aggression. Any civilian that we kill is actually killed by them. We left Gaza. Blockading it … Continue reading
A continuing, endless series. This morning in response to the BLS jobs report, he suggested the numbers were cooked (“We’re all conspiratorial here.”) — in other words not too high, not too low — for the sake of propping up … Continue reading
First Friday of every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases data on the previous month’s state of the labor market. The ‘headline number’ is 209,000 net new jobs. This year the numbers of net new jobs have looked good … Continue reading
