Glenn Greenwald, referring to news that some cities and states around the nation are closing schools and libraries, turning off streetlights, allowing roads to go unpaved, and stopping bus service because of lack of funds:
Does anyone doubt that once a society ceases to be able to afford schools, public transit, paved roads, libraries and street [...]
Abe Sauer:
The truth is not that Target and its leadership have suddenly turned on their commitment to gay rights. It’s more that it never really existed to begin with. Further research shows that Target has funneled significant funding to the most socially conservative of Republicans and that it boasts a frightening culture of anti-gay candidate [...]
Why Does Everything Suck (WDES) asks an excellent question:
Why is it so easy for these huge private companies to get law enforcement to do their bidding?
WDES is referring specifically to Apple, Inc., and AT&T, suggesting that they have somehow managed to get the local police force in Cupertino, CA, and the federal officials of the [...]
Glenn Greenwald pulls no punches on the news that Obama is picking Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court:
It’s anything but surprising that President Obama has chosen Elena Kagan to replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. Nothing is a better fit for this White House than a blank slate, institution-loyal, seemingly principle-free careerist who spent [...]
A federal judge deporting a woman who was living in the U.S. illegally for six years and was about to marry an American when she accidentally crossed into Canada for about 30 seconds and then tried to return to the U.S. More ridiculous are the comments on that story, and more ridiculous still is the [...]
Of course you’ve heard all the criticism recently of Acorn, the non-profit that everyone is all angApparently, the problem for middle-class and lower-middle-class Americans is not that their taxpayer dollars are going to prop up billionaires, oligarchs and their corrupt industries…. …If one were to watch Fox News or listen to Rush Limbaugh — as millions do — one would believe that the burden of the ordinary American taxpayer, and the unfair plight of America’s rich, is that their money is being stolen by the poorest and most powerless sectors of the society…. The poorer and weaker one is, the more one is demonized in right-wing mythology as all-powerful receipients of ill-gotten gains; conversely, the stronger and more powerful one is, the more one is depicted as an oppressed and put-upon victim (that same dynamic applies to foreign affairs as well).
If you haven’t seen this video, you should.
Following up on yesterday’s sadness: If you’re not sure why it’s so sad that the Obama Administration is doing exactly what the Bush Administration did with state secrets, here’s why it matters:
When the executive branch invokes the state secrets privilege to shut down lawsuits, hides its programs behind secret OLC opinions, over-classifies information to [...]
This makes me want to cry:
Obama Administration Maintains Bush Position on ‘Extraordinary Rendition’ Lawsuit
The Obama Administration today announced that it would keep the same position as the Bush Administration in the lawsuit Mohamed et al v Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.
A source inside of the Ninth [...]
This is news that never gets old: Obama won! Ok, so it’s not news…. Still, I can’t get over it.
