The Lesson of Ohio: Industrial Strategy
The election is not over yet, but today there's an even worse poll out of Ohio for Mitt than the 8 point Obama lead that WaPo had yesterday: a NYT/CBS/Q poll showing Obama leading by 10, 53-43.
And so beltway pundits are trying to figure…
Information Flow is Key in Iran War Posturing
As Marcy points out this morning, Iran is now emphasizing the many ways that the US is waging war on Iran. What I find interesting in both the physical attacks, whether they hit equipment or people, and the propaganda attacks waged in the media…
We Have Always Been at War in Iran
The NYT has a weird story on new allegations made by Iran, listing a bunch of ways the west has sabotaged it.
Iran said Tuesday that it had amassed new evidence of attempts by saboteurs to attack Iranian nuclear, defense, industrial and telecommunications…
Congressman Tim Ryan's 4 Reasons Obama Is Winning Ohio
The Alliance for American Manufacturing just had a press conference with Congressman Tim Ryan, who represents Youngstown and part of Akron, Ohio, to talk about the role that China is playing in this year's President election.
Earlier in the…
Drones: Nation-Unbuilding in Pakistan and the US
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Stanford's International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic and NYU's Global Justice Clinic have joined the debate on drones with a long report presenting what it argues are the counter-productive…
The Scab Grab Teaches Scott Walker the Value of Unions
I confess, I went to sleep last night when Seattle QB Russell Wilson threw a pick with about 3 minutes left in the game [Update: actually, in retrospect it was a missed 4th down throw]. With the Squawks down 5, I figured there was no way they…
How Mitt Manufactured a Charitable View of His Taxes
This worthwhile piece on the charities Mitt Romney gives millions to (largely, the Mormon Church and the Mormon Church) got me thinking about the chronology of Mitt's 9 month slow reveal (sic) on taxes. The headline takeaway from Mitt's tax…
An Airplane Window on Mitt's Thinking
Let me start by saying I'm grateful that Ann Romney--as well as the pilot and co-pilot who were in the cockpit of Ann's chartered plane where a fire broke out Friday, forcing them to make an emergency landing--are safe. I'm sure the entire episode…
Health and Workers Dying to Feed Us
This article in Scientific American is unusual among the articles defending the results of the Stanford University study finding no nutritional benefit in eating organic food in that it at least mentions the people on whom pesticides have an…
Pakistan Denounces Railway Minister for Filmmaker Bounty, US Joins Condemnation, Ignoring Own Bounties
On Saturday, Pakistan's Federal Railway Minister made headlines around the world by offering a $100,000 bounty for the killing of the maker of "The Innocence of the Muslims" after riots related to the film resulted in 21 deaths in Pakistan…
Poking Our Eyes Out in Libya
The NYT reports that--as already happened in Lebanon and Iran in the last year or so--the attack on the Consulate in Benghazi seriously set back CIA's intelligence gathering efforts in Libya.
“It’s a catastrophic intelligence loss,” said…
Irish Trash
Trashing the Irish from Notre Dame is always fun. Nothing will ever approach the drama of five years ago where the battle between Michigan and the Domers was between a pair of unvictorious and untied teams. Ah, those were the good old days.…
How Does a Paper Personal Journal Survive a Fire?
Michael Calderone catches CNN not disclosing that their reporting purportedly based on "a source familiar with Ambassador Stevens' thinking" was actually working off his personal journal which they had obtained and not disclosed to the FBI team…
How to Make Mitt's Tax Rate Look 3.5% Higher Than It Was
As you've surely heard, Mitt has finally released his tax return for 2011 along with a statement signed by Pricewaterhouse Coopers and certified by its General Counsel, Diana Weiss, summarizing what he paid for a 20 year span of time: 1990-2009.
Mitt's…
Now That Latif Has Died But His Precedent Lives, DOD Releases List He Would Have Been On
As Josh Gerstein reported, the government has released a list of 55 Gitmo detainees who have been cleared for release.
The list was dated September 21--almost two weeks after Adnan Farhan abd al Latif died. Note, the list makes it clear there…
Mitt's DOES Have a View of Workers
While I'm happy that Paul Krugman is observing the same thing I did here--that Republicans don't care much about workers--I disagree with his observation that Mitt said nothing about workers in his RNC speech.
Lest you think that this was just…
And What Will MEK Be Doing in Baghdad While Waiting for Resettlement?
CNN has a funny story reporting that Hillary Clinton will inform Congress she's delisting the MEK from State's foreign terrorist organization list.
It botches the key paragraph explaining that MEK has done what Hillary said they'd have to…
Panetta Continues to Ignore Reality, Calls Surge a Success
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta looks as though he is going to be the last person on the planet to realize what a failure US strategy in Afghanistan has become. Today, while visiting New Zealand, he announced that the final surge troops have…
It's Actually Not about the West Wing--It's about Rule of Law
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I have a confession: I never, ever watched the West Wing. I don't think I've watched a single episode.
So many of you will probably enjoy--or at least understand--this video more than me.
But if it has…
Mitt Romney Guilty Of A Hate Crime
Yes, I am absolutely serious about the implication in the title of this post.
I was scrolling through my twitter feed about lunchtime here, after doing some work, and found this exchange between two people I follow, Carrie Johnson and Dan…