William Faulkner Was Right

“Understanding this reality requires a reminder of how we arrived at this point. As William Faulkner once wrote, ‘The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past.’” — Barack Obama, March 18
March 19, case in point (emphasis mine):

Barack Obama’s campaign has rejected the support of the New Black Panther Party, after removing [...]

Cheney’s Moment of Truth

Fact or opinion? Dick Cheney does not care if most Americans do not think the U.S. should be in Iraq.
Fact. He said exactly that, to White House correspondent Martha Raddatz. Amanda’s analysis follows the interview snippet:

CHENEY: On the security front, I think there’s a general consensus that we’ve made major progress, that the surge has [...]

Let’s Have That Conversation About America

From Jonathan Martin at The Politico:
For months, Republican party officials have watched with increasing trepidation as Barack Obama has shattered fundraising records, packed arena after arena with shrieking fans and pulled in significant Republican and independent votes.
Now, with the emergence of the notorious video showing the Rev. Jeremiah Wright damning the country, criticizing Israel, faulting [...]

Thinking Like Concrete Block Walls

I get impatient. It’s difficult to write every day about the latest examples of right-wing denseness, and do it in what is hopefully a coherent and lucid manner — and then find fresh new examples of that thick-headedness the next day, sticky and hardening like freshly poured asphalt.
Michael Gerson’s op-ed in today’s Washington Post is [...]

Jobs

I am back looking at the February BLS Labor Report. There is a lot of information contained in this document of maybe 40 pages, but one needs a shovel and a crowbar to dig up and pry loose any meaning from the table after table in the report.
In the first two months of the [...]

The REAL fear

What is the “real’ fear in America?

Is it the fear of a terrorist attack? (Nah, that’s worn out)
Is it the fear Wall Street banks will fail?
Is it the fear of a recession?
Is it the fear of death?
Is it the fear of foreclosure?
Is it the fear of losing your job? BINGO

We seem to be surrounded [...]

Shopping

This has nothing to do with government policy. Just paying attention when you shop.
Normally, we eat either fresh, steamed vegetables or frozen vegetables. But for a couple of days we have a fourteen month old visitor who is not familiar with fresh or frozen veggies but loves canned veggies. So we went [...]

Thought of the Day

I love this country. I don’t remember loving it or hoping more from it than today.
Andrew Sullivan