How to Make Al-Qaeda Irrelevant
The revolutions in the Arab world have changed the region. Thankfully, these courageous people-led movements have made Osama Bin Laden a bloody footnote in the history of the Arab people. Bin Laden...
View ArticleForeign Policy of a Wounded Bear
The U.S. will react like a wounded bear and it will attack Afghanistan. These were the first words of President Pervez Musharraf at the meeting of top Pakistani military and government officials...
View ArticleThe Randian Fault That Could Shake Conservatism
Frank Cocozzelli and I collaborated on this piece, which is cross-posted from Talk to Action. -- FC The spectacular failure of the film version of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged has drawn fresh...
View ArticleWhat should have happened to Bin Laden
Bin Laden is dead, and overall this is a good thing. But deep down, I wish he would have survived and that we had captured him. Sure he deserves death, but I think we could do better than that...
View ArticleWas it worth the price?
Horror... Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies! -A line from...
View ArticleScience Tidbits
Once again the time has come to gather around and take a well deserved hiatus from the politics of the day. Science talk is here. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news...
View ArticleLimbaugh Smears Obama as "Osama" 6 Times
Rush Limbaugh had a lot to apologize for today after the death of Osama Bin Laden. For years, he's been telling his audience that Bin Laden was dead long ago (“don't doubt me”). He's compared Bin...
View ArticleFishy bin Laden
Something doesn't smell right in the state of Denmark, Pakistan, whatever...
View ArticleKat's Obama Administration Report, 5/2/11, Part 1
Hi, all. Part 1 features a press briefing by senior Administration officials on the killing of Osama bin Laden.
View ArticleWho controls Osama's wealth now?
An open question for Kossacks. No doubt Osama's vision of a new caliphate and hatred of the Crusaders and desires to drive Christians and Jews out of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) was what motivated him and...
View ArticleOsama's murder, a Cause for Celebration?
I am still struggling with the simple question, is President Obama right? Were the last 10 years of sacrifice, struggle and war made tangible yesterday with the death of Osama? Was it all worth it?...
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SP Coffee Hour: Visual Metaphors
Welcome the the Street Prophets Monday Coffee Hour / Open Thread. Big changes are coming to our Street. The upshot is we will be moving into a Daily Kos group. For further conversation about this see...
View ArticleAn "Easter Egg" at the Royal Wedding: Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Secret...
Count me one of the estimated two billion British royal wedding watchers. Sleeping in, I was content to view BBC America’s first rebroadcast of the event. A dedicated Anglophile and long-time...
View ArticleBenazir Bhutto: Bin Laden was Murdered
Bhutto mentions his killing in passing, as if it were common knowledge. I cannot think of any reason for her to lie, although I can think of one for her to be assassinated over. Go to about 2:10. What...
View ArticleFrom Ohio? Help kick off the campaign to defeat the state's anti-union bill
Governor Kasich and Ohio Republicans thought they won their war on working families when they rammed through their bill last month to strip workers of their right to bargain for fair benefits. They...
View ArticleELECTION NIGHT IN CANADA
Canada is now on the verge of a turning point in her history with the NDP about to replace the Liberals as the party of the left. Canada was one of the three countries, along with the U.S. and...
View ArticlePRANAV AND THE COURT DECISION: anti-stem cell litigation still threatens sick
The recent court decision allowing government funding of embryonic stem cell research to go forward is good news-- but it might only last as long as the trial goes on...
View ArticleThe 13 Keys to the Presidency
American University Professor Allan Lichtman created the 13 Keys to the Presidency. The system predicts who will win the White House popular vote in the next election. It has been right going back to...
View ArticleOsama and Che
Che Guevara was killed in Bolivia on October 9, 1967, at a time when that country was under U.S. economic and military influence. Today, Bolivia has a social-democratic government under an indigenous...
View ArticleTranscript of White House bin Laden briefing
haven't seen this yet on DK. Political Wire has a transcript of the White House briefing regarding the bin Laden operation. Last night, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor and senior...
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