this first piece was brought to my attention by a tweet by Glenn Greenwald; it's by Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic and is a must read: The Kill List
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Stephen Colbert on Drones and the WH classifying all military-aged males in drone zones as enemy combatants
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via new tweeter E.J. Dionne, it's a powerful piece by Michael Gerson, (remember Compassionate Conservatives?) about VP Biden and grief and empathy: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bidens-personal-grief-lessens-isolation-stigma/2012/05/31/gJQAt0RQ5U_story.html
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(via Peter Gammons, RT of David Axelrod)
Bruce Bartlett, who served under Reagan, Bush I and worked for Jack Kemp, Ron Paul, asks the question: Would Romney Be Another Bill Clinton or Another George W. Bush? (his answer will probably surprise you).
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Stephen Colbert on Drones and the WH classifying all military-aged males in drone zones as enemy combatants
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via new tweeter E.J. Dionne, it's a powerful piece by Michael Gerson, (remember Compassionate Conservatives?) about VP Biden and grief and empathy: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bidens-personal-grief-lessens-isolation-stigma/2012/05/31/gJQAt0RQ5U_story.html
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Bruce Bartlett, who served under Reagan, Bush I and worked for Jack Kemp, Ron Paul, asks the question: Would Romney Be Another Bill Clinton or Another George W. Bush? (his answer will probably surprise you).
Somebody needs to tell this administration that 1984 is a cautionary tale and not a ******* how-to manual.
ReplyDeleteI hear you, Matt--still trying to work that out for myself; i.e., supporting this adim. vs this admin and its Orwellian (or worse) approach to foreign policy, surveillance, and dissent.
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