I echo Chris Hayes’ incredulity, expressed last night, at Barack Obama’s long strange trip: from his rise to political stardom as an opponent of the (second) Iraq invasion, to his devolution as a born-again interventionist, proposing to reinject the U.S. into … Continue reading
If Arianna Huffington is too edgy for you, here’s Joan Walsh of Salon. She’s another tribune of presidential powerlessness. Once again the naive Obama critics harbor a foolish belief in a magical president. Once again Cornel West is name-checked, succumbing to “cruelty and … Continue reading
Jonathan Chait did an annoying hit piece on _____ in New York Magazine. I put in a blank there because I expect to reuse the text. This time around the names to fill in are Cornel West, Tom Frank, and … Continue reading
The Obama Administration, aided by the civil rights establishment, has shut down the uprising in Ferguson, MO. They accomplished this craven feat through two channels. On the ground, they permitted the local police free reign to extinguish non-violent protest. The mechanism was … 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
Which totally did not target civilians. … Continue reading
The election of John McCain or Mitt Romney would have been a disaster. The election of Barack Obama, for whom I voted in both the primary and two general elections, has been a disaster of lesser order. A valid criterion for … Continue reading
It’s Bash Bad Democrats Week on MaxSpeak. We have a target-rich environment. Today’s clay pigeon is Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York. We shouldn’t expect much of Democrats in the god-forsaken places of Redstate America. (Sorry, just look at whom you’ve … Continue reading
(Warning, rant ahead.) Today’s datapoint in a continuing series: Human Rights Watch gets a letter from Nobel Peace Prize winners. Clausewitz said “War is the continuation of Politik by other means.” MaxSpeak says human rights politics are the prelude to … Continue reading
A lot of people are enjoying cheap dates with expressions of concern. To cut to the chase, what you propose to do about inequality matters more than the fact that you have recognized it. So what do our anti-inequality champions … Continue reading
