Bill O’Reilly is like a punch-drunk fighter: he takes one sharp jibe from the left, and keeps coming back for more. Or Maher. Last week Jon Stewart beat Bill O at his own game. Wednesday, he aired part one of his Bill Maher interview. O’Reilly, by the way, is a self-anointed independent, but claims to [...]
By Brian Brawdy In his new book Obama’s Wars, Washington Post Columnist and perennial White House fly on the wall Bob Woodard writes that President Obama believes “We can absorb a terrorist attack.” As many in the media line up to slam him for his comments, there are now reports on the wire of a [...]
During the Bush-era, in the sweeping intrusive context of the “Patriot Act”, US citizens found out that their international communications were spied on with the generous complicity of their “trusted” telephone companies such as AT & T and Verizon. These actions were, until 2008, clearly outside the norms of the defined wiretap authorizations given by [...]
Christine, Carly and Meg, oh my! The 2010 election season is scarier than a Halloween film festival. The Tea Party seems to curry a certain reverse Mensa snobbery–the lower the IQ, the crazier the ideas–the more mojo the campaign generates. But Americans aren’t really desperate and short-sighted enough to ditch the common good for a [...]
During the Vietnam war, the saying which illustrated the best the schizophrenic aspect of the US involvement there was “Candy in the morning, napalm in the afternoon”. Decades later, the US administration is still displaying the very same sign of this disturbing behavior where one hand takes away what the other hand has given. The [...]
